How to simulate 3d Extruded shapes leaving solid trails?

[Michael Ricks]

https://maltaannon.com/articles/after-effects/ce-shapeextruder/
https://maltaannon.com/articles/after-effects/studying-ce-shapeextruder/

Check out those tutorials and techniques. They did the trick for me. Obviously there are limitations and Zaxwerks is better for true 3d. But this is just a free alternative.

[Andrius Simutis]

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/drozda_jerzy/CEShapeExtruder.php

Check out Multaanon’s CE Shape extruder. It’s free, but limited in what it can do as it’s a workaround. A good workaround and pretty cool, but a workaround nonetheless. Watch the tutorial and see if that’s right for you.

[Umer Zafar]

Thank you guys for your time and tips. I have played with shape extruder. it works alright but i have doubts it extrudes along a path easily. Anybody tried to do that stuff before with shape extruder or pro invigorator then i will highly appreciate if he/she shows a few steps . Thanks.

Regards

Muhammed Umer Zafar

[Matthew Woods]

You might try playing with the Echo time effect and some motion blur although this can get render intensive.

Joe Chao does some cool stuff with this in his “ribbonsandconfetti” tutorial.

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/chao_joe/ribbonsandconfetti.php

[Umer Zafar]

Thanks matthew for the link, very useful in many ways. I am chekin it out.
Thanks everybody.

Regards

Muhammed Umer Zafar

[Chris Wright]

trapcode particular with a precomped 3-D shape light layer will work too.