• Adobe After Effects

  3D Text

  Posted by Guy Hopes on March 22, 2012 at 1:55 pm

  Hi Friends,

  I want to learn to track a 3D text in a scene. I have seen a lot of
  tutorials on Youtube which all use Boujou & Cinema 4D

  My query is, since all I want is to have a simple 3D text, is there some software
  other than Cinema 4D to specifically do just this (3D text in 3D space with maybe
  a light source for shadows that can be pasted onto boujou-tracked video)?

  If yes, a pointer to a corresponding tutorial would be great.

  Thank you.

  Isaac Borjas replied 14 years, 1 month ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  March 22, 2012 at 3:21 pm

  For fast 3d text you can use ShapeShifter AE from Mettle. You can then link the positioning controls in SSAE to a Null that has track info for positioning.
  There’s a few good tutorials here on the Cow on SSAE, none that include tracking as far as I know.

  Also, Zaxwerks Invigorator Pro can do that. You can link 3d objects with AE layers to control position.

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist
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  Erik Waluska

  March 22, 2012 at 3:53 pm

  Depending on your needs, you may also want to check out the 3D Extruder Script from aescripts. It’s somewhat limited but it’s only $35.
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  Isaac Borjas

  March 22, 2012 at 5:36 pm

  another 2 ways to create a simple 3d Text is :

  1- using the “Shatter” fx you will have full control of the 3D tex.

  2- create the text and make it 3D then go to position and make and expression, write the follow : value+[0,0,index]; , now with that done just duplicate the TEXT layer till you have the extrusion needed to create an 3D illusion of the text.

  hope that help.

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