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3D multi plane text advice
I have a golf ball that I use as a lower 3rd and place objects on it or under it. For a new project I would like to have the text “golf keeps us going” rotate around the ball at an oblique angle. Basically I would like to see the text and have it rotate around the back of the golf ball. I guess like the NBC universal logo rotates around the world.
I am rudimentary on AE (I just do titles and small animations), and I don’t know where to start. Is this a big job? I also have Zaxwerks 4.5 at home, and use it as a stand alone, but haven’t used it in a while. Would it do the job easier?
Cheers.
Here is the animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp26lNw0sqo
G5, 1.7, 4MB RAM, 30″cine, G4, 1.6 2MB RAM, Mbox, Neumann TLM-103, FCP HD 5. Pro Tools, Adobe Creative Suite, Reason 3.0, Macromedia Studio, ProAnimator, HVX200 with Firestore v4.0
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Create your text layer — precompose it — to the precomp apply “cc cylinder”.
Adjust the radius of your text to be slightly bigger than your golf ball.. (you can make the radius greater than 100%)Try setting the x rotation to 15 degrees then animate the y rotation (or use the expression “time *50” for example.
Make sure to set render to full (you can try front only but I think it cuts off too much)…But if you set the render to full then, precompose that layer and mask off the text that should be “behind” the golf ball…
Jim Dodson
8 Core Intel — Mac – OSX
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There’s a tutorial right here on the COW that even includes a project file!
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