• Adobe After Effects

  Spinning a 2D graphic making 3D?

  Posted by Vincent Strader on October 28, 2010 at 5:24 pm

  Here’s an example
  https://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=4ee997c0bc892948665ace37c7e07abb&w=90&h=90&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cityoflewisville.com%2Fwcmsite%2Fpublishing.nsf%2FAttachmentsByTitle%2FWeb%2BCityLogo%2F%24FILE%2FlogoTop2.jpg

  If I wanted to take that purple martin by itself, and spin it every once in a while the same way a news bug does that you see at the bottom of a news network how would I go about doing that? Is there a tutorial online?

  I have a few graphics with titles in it, and I want the title to be visible when it does the 360 spin. I don’t know what to call that process though to look any video tutorial up.

  Thanks for any pointers
  Vinnie

  Vincent Strader replied 15 years, 10 months ago 60,872 Members · 4 Replies
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  Vincent Strader

  October 28, 2010 at 6:32 pm

  I know about the animation effects and presets to the right, but they seem to have put every type of animation in there except the 1 simple horizontal spin like a news bug.

  AE CS4 is what I’m using.

  Thanks

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  Vincent Strader

  October 28, 2010 at 7:16 pm

  Thanks Mr. LaRonde,

  * Make the graphic to spin into a 3D layer.
  * Animate the rotation along the axis of your choice.
  * Repeat as necessary.

  How do I go about making the graphic to spin in a 3D layer?
  Where do I go to animate the rotation along the axis? I added a 3D layer to the project under the layer section.

  While waiting I was messing around with some other features.

  I tried something else. Adding the lightning effect.

  But when I render out the video I keep getting the black background.

  It’s a PNG file I’m working with that’s been saved in PS with a transparent background.

  This issues is talked about here in this thread:
  https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/202/885166
  For transparency, you want “RGB + Alpha”, is what I Read in another thread here.
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  I follow those steps and know where they’re talking about. But all my selections are greyed out. I can’t click on anything to change anything.

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  Vincent Strader

  October 28, 2010 at 9:05 pm

  Thanks Mr. LaRonde,
  I understand these constant questions from a noob can be frustrating sometimes.

  So feel free to ignore if you’ve said something that’s the answer and I haven’t picked up on it yet. Sometimes after something has been said I don’t pick up on it till reading it 2 or 3 times 🙂

  But yes, I saved the file as a .png file against a transparent background.

  Transported it into AE. Then allplied the 3D layer to it via the “layer” menu button.

  I see the Z axis red bar on it and the Y axis green bar, but I can’t turn the graphic.

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  Vincent Strader

  October 28, 2010 at 10:37 pm

  You rock! Thank you very much!

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