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[Joseph W. bourke]

You could do it using Element 3D in After Effects, or in any 3D program – I use 3DS Max. It can be done using an array of boxes (in Element 3D), or in Max, creating a box, then an array, then animating the boxes and offsetting their timing.

https://www.videocopilot.net/products/element2/

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Chris Siefken]

Thanks, I actually have Element. I’ll give the array a shot. I don’t do that much with 3d so I wanted to make sure there wasn’t a pure After Effects solution before diving into other plugins/programs.

Chris

[Ken Teutsch]

I haven’t used it and know nothing about it, but… There’s also this:

https://aescripts.com/sliced-box/

[Walter Soyka]

And don’t forget that Ae now ships with the CINEMA 4D renderer, so you can also do real extrusions of shape layers, cast ray-traced shadows, etc.

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Chris Siefken]

That’s interesting… I’ll probably play around with this before heading over to element. Thanks.