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  • 3D dimensionality to objects

    Posted by Jeremy Dehn on November 29, 2007 at 8:20 pm

    Hi,

    Motion newbie here, so apologies if this is an easy one, but I can’t find it in the manual or previous posts:

    Is there a way to extrude or otherwise add a little 3D depth to flat objects? I’m dollying a camera forward, past several layers of image (layers created in Photoshop), and I’d like to see just a few pixels of Z-axis thickness on those objects as the camera moves past them.

    The images are irregular shapes, so simply building a cube behind them won’t quite do it.

    Any help is much appreciated.

    -Jeremy

    Doyle Rockwell replied 18 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Doyle Rockwell

    November 30, 2007 at 2:21 am

    Howdy,

    You can make replicators of the objects and have them replicate only along the object’s Z-axis, creating the appearance of an extrusion. Peter Wiggins shows an example of doing this with text in this tutorial.

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