• Adobe After Effects

  Gold “oscar” edges

  Posted by Grzegorz Kopowski on March 23, 2016 at 7:37 pm

  Hello, I am trying to make gold edges like this:

  

  For now I have:

  

  I have added bevel alpha but it still looks bad. Is there anything else I could do to achive edges like in original image?

  Grzegorz Kopowski replied 10 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  John Cuevas

  March 24, 2016 at 1:06 pm

  Which version of AE. If it’s CS6 or newer, I would create a shape layer, make it 3D, then change the render engine to 3D(cntl+k then advanced). Then start adding some lights, and a material to use as a reflection/environment map. If you have C4D light, you would get even better results there.

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  ThinkCK

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  Grzegorz Kopowski

  March 29, 2016 at 8:10 am

  Thanks John for great tips! I have AE CC 2015.

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