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3D extrusion effect?
I have a project I am working on in After Effects CS3. I have an image of a cropped out poker chip it is a Photoshop CS3 file. I animated it so it spins and flips giving the appearance that they are being pitched into the pot, across the composition screen. All I want to do is give the chip a little thickness so it doesn’t look flat when viewed on edge. I have tried to use the tutorial using the shatter effect but every time I start to do it, as soon as I switch the view to rendered the program crashes. What am I doing wrong. Can what I want be done? P.S. It has crashed on my apple macbook and my work p.c. If anyone has any insite into this please help me out.
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you could always use the method where you space out a number of duplicate layers close together in z-space. If there is a lot of motion, the motion blur may cover up the fact that it is not a true 3D object.
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I recommend using the Shape Extruder preset. It is great for making simple 3d; all you need is a vector path. It renders quickly and looks pretty solid. The preset and tutorial are both featured here on the COW as well as on Drozda’s website.
Nick Wedeking
Director/Technical Director
KWWL Television
Waterloo IA
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