• Adobe After Effects

  3D Wrapping & Modeling in AE 6.5

  Posted by Seib101 on October 31, 2005 at 5:45 am

  So I successfully created a 3D cassette tape with all 6 sides that I can move about as I please, but who cares…let’s get NASTY. Can I build 3D models in After Effects? If I wanted to Build a car…how do I make 3D tires? Can’t I WRAP the 2-D image of the tire treads onto a 2D image of the hubcap therefore creating a 3D wheel? Can’t I bend certain parts of an image, or do I have to make everything basically a Cube?

  Steve Roberts replied 20 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Steve Roberts

  October 31, 2005 at 1:55 pm

  AE, natively, can only deal with flat planes. So you can only make boxes. Theoretically, you could make the Statue of Liberty out of teeny flat planes in AE, but they’d ship you off before you finished it.

  There are some third-party (and bundled) effects that create 3D objects then effectively place those 3D objects on a flat layer in AE:
  1. CC Sphere and CC cylinder: make spheres and cylinders
  2. Zaxwerks Invigorator: makes extruded text, some objects and can import 3D objects into AE. Third-party.
  3. Conoa
  4. Boris

  You may find each of those solutions limiting, or you may not. If you really want to do 3D, get a 3D app such as Cinema4D, which is good for motion graphics. The others may be too complex, or they may not.

  You cannot bend anything in 3D in AE without a third-party plug such as Forge Freeform, or maybe Digital Anarchy’s 3D Layer. There may be others.

  Sometimes I think we expect too much of AE. It’s not a complete motion graphics solution.

  Steve

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