• Adobe After Effects

  making a illustrator file looke 3d in ae

  Posted by Matt Rinaldo on June 7, 2008 at 7:25 pm

  I made a rounded edge rectangle with i am calling a “business card” in illusrtator. I bring it into after effects 7 and make that layer 3d. Then I duplicate the biz card layer 50 times. Then i offset the z value of all 50 biz card layers by one. so the z value is increaseing by 1 spaneing all 50 card layers. i select all 50 card layers and rotate them all to see if my card has good 3d depth and it does not? i am trying to make the card have depth like a dvd box for example, does anyone have any suggestions as to what i am doing wrong?

  Mike Clasby replied 17 years, 11 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Amit Zinman

  June 7, 2008 at 7:52 pm

  This should probably work. Have you tried solids instead of AI objects?

  Amit
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  Immanuel Morales

  June 7, 2008 at 8:19 pm

  man, wouldn’t that hog your processor??
  try this instead

  apply shatter to a separate 2d solid and move the force way away from the screen.
  set your custom shatter map to your logo’s layer and that should do the trick.
  oh yea and i think you have to turn off your gravity and stuff to keep it from moving.

  this would be way faster and easier to manage.. man, that had to be a hassle making all those layers if you didn’t use expressions.

  Darqlight on the Rise…
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  Mike Clasby

  June 7, 2008 at 8:50 pm

  Try this:

  https://library.creativecow.net/articles/kahlenberg_roland/3d_logo_extrude.php

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