• Adobe After Effects

  3D text: Illustrator to After Effects

  Posted by Alp Tekyildiz on April 7, 2011 at 12:35 pm

  Hi everyone

  I’m working on a logo that has some Illustrator 3D effects (Extrude & Bevel) applied to text. I was wondering if there’s a way to import or convert that to After Effects and retain 3D so that I can rotate the layers in 3D space.

  Thanks

  Sekahng Oh replied 15 years ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Brian Charles

  April 7, 2011 at 2:34 pm

  No. Can’t be done with Illustrator 3D, 3D in Illustrator is a “Live Effect”, not a 3D Model.

  You need another solution, like Zaxwerks Invigorator or a real 3D Application.
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  Alp Tekyildiz

  April 8, 2011 at 8:36 am

  That’s what I was afraid of. Thanks for your reply/
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  Sekahng Oh

  July 24, 2011 at 8:09 am

  You can use Photoshop’s Repousse to extrude/bevel text or selections(both will be rasterized) and import the .psd into After Effects as a comp, making sure “Live Photoshop 3D” is checked.

  Then you will be able to rotate 3D in AE.

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