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Cube in After Effects
Hi, I am looking to make a cube in Illustrator or photoshop, bring the cube into AE and rotate it so I can see all 6 sides. Is making the cube in AI the best way to do this? Right now when I import the cube/AI file into AE it is flat. I know I am missing something just not sure what. I am trying to make a cube, have the cube rotate clockwise and place text wrapped around the cube going in the opposite direction.
Thank you,
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Several people have made scripts and projects that create or include 3D cubes from 3D layers.
Community Help search for ‘cube scripts’
Community Help search for ‘cube projects’
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
putting the ‘T’ back in ‘RTFM’ : After Effects Help on the Web
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Thanks Dave and Todd! I have decided to just create the cube in Boris/Avid FX a lot easier and by far fewer steps. I am creating the text in AE CS4 with help from the text preset
‘3d text on a circle’
Thanks again!Pete
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I created a cube for our Texture Pack promo video seen here:
https://www.precomposed.com/products/texture_packs/
You will see the cube at 26 seconds into the video. You will notice I “slid” a texture onto the cube and spun it around, creating an interesting effect. This was done simply by using 4 surfaces, aligned in 3D space in AE, then parenting them to a null object (which was centered in the cube) for placement and rotation. The surfaces were precomps, and inside the precomps is where I slid the texture on.
Jon Geddes
http://www.precomposed.com
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