Creative Communities of the World Forums

The peer to peer support community for media production professionals.

Activity Forums Adobe After Effects Bending precomposed layers in 3d space?

  • Mbaker

    October 27, 2007 at 10:46 pm

    If I’m understanding you correctly you aren’t actually bending the layers, just adjusting the position of the layers which is fairly simple. Just duplicate the layers and position them in 3d space by enabling “3d layers”. Apply masks to trim the layers. Hope I understood you correctly and this helps.

  • Steve Roberts

    October 28, 2007 at 12:01 am

    Without a plugin such as Zaxwerks 3D Warps, you can’t fold a layer. Even 3D Warps doesn’t do it sharply, in my experience.

    So you need 3 layers: one for each (shorter) wall.

    If you have a continuous movie (or something) on the long wall precomp, you can mask it to make a shorter wall, dupe the precomp twice, then move the mask on each of the dupes to show a different part of the wall. Then you position the walls where you want, lining them up.

    BTW, sometimes 3D layers that meet at a corner look best in Alpha Add mode.

We use anonymous cookies to give you the best experience we can.
Our Privacy policy | GDPR Policy