• Adobe After Effects

  3D Extruded Graph Effect

  Posted by Richard Lyons on May 3, 2011 at 8:07 pm

  Hi,

  I am trying to create a 3D graph effect from a 2D video source – basically I ned to be able to render in 3D space a 3D element created/extruded from a 2D plane to create a 3D element I can then spin or pan round in AE with a 3D camera.

  Example Image here : 2d_to_3d_extrude.jpg

  I used to be able to do this in earlier versions of AE with Digieffects Fantazm Pixxy plugins but cannot seem to find an equivalent that can create this within AE CS5.

  If anyone can recommend a good route that would be much appreciated!

  Cheers,

  Rich

  Richard Lyons replied 14 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  May 3, 2011 at 9:37 pm

  Free Form like Dave suggested can do the job quite well.
  If you have a bit more cash to spend I recommend FreeForm Pro- it can do a lot more than the basic one and it’s 3d displacement capabilities are quite impressive.
  Here’s a tutorial for Free Form:
  https://library.creativecow.net/jelescu_tudor/3D-from-2D-image_AE/1

  Some FreeForm Pro links:
  https://library.creativecow.net/jelescu_tudor/FreeForm-Pro-review/1
  https://library.creativecow.net/jelescu_tudor/AE-3D-tunnels-FreeForm-Pro-1/1
  https://library.creativecow.net/jelescu_tudor/AE-3D-tunnels-FreeForm-Pro-2/1

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist
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  Richard Lyons

  June 1, 2011 at 3:24 pm

  Hi guys – many thanks got it all sorted in the end – freeform pro looks good, but seemed to be Windows only? Cheers

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