BBC News Graphics help

[Andy Kiernan]

Hi Dylan

can you share an image of what you are trying to achieve?

If this is it,,, Create the BBC World News Ident in After Effects ✔ – YouTube

For text, make text layers 3D, place them where you want, and attach to a null and use this to rotate them. Use Auto-orient to camera so they always face forward

[Graham Quince]

I love that tutorial. Matt Smart really nailed the look.

Just to elaborate on Andy’s bit about the text, I made a tutorial a couple of years back showing how to link 3D text to geographic coordinates, if that’s any help:

https://youtu.be/ckpnfHp3Yb8

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[Dylan Loughran]

Thank you. How do you rotate the null?

[Dylan Loughran]

So I am rotating the null and how do I do that?

[Andy Kiernan]

I have made a basic example for you to look at. There are 3 text layers, made 3D and moved in 3D space, a 3D null as a centre point, the text layers are parented to the null, then I selected all text layers, went to transform in the menu and applied Auto-orient to camera. The y-axis on the null is then animated to move all texts.

I hope this helps you

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[Dylan Loughran]

i can’t open it with that version, but thanks anyway

[Dylan Loughran]

Andy thank you for the advice. After trying & trying I got the place names to move using your advice

Does anyone know how to recreate this on after effects?. It’s just the endboard. I can make the rings with help from a YouTube tutorial and the placenames. It’s just the 3D Aglobe I would love to make. if you don’t I totally understand. But I’m dying to ask someone lol