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  • Making a 3d star

    Posted by Richard Baillie on June 2, 2005 at 12:08 pm

    I want to make a 3d star which flips over and text appears on it. It needs to have some thickness but I cant seem to achieve this with after effects. I’m using a psd file for teh star which is highly detailed and i need to keep. can someone please hlep me?

    Matt Hall replied 20 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Andrew Yoole

    June 2, 2005 at 2:10 pm

    You need Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator. You can use your exisiting image as a texture map on the star.

    https://www.zaxwerks.com

    If you are comfortable in the AE 3D design space, you could feasibly use your star image as the front and back of a star, then used carefully placed solids for the extruded edges.

  • Matt Hall

    June 2, 2005 at 2:16 pm

    A cheat that may work is to put your star psd in a comp. Make it a 3D layer. Now duplicate it 10 times or so. now move each copy back in z space 10 pixels or so from the others. you end up with a layered look that definitely shows depth. it’s not the perfect solution that invigorator gives you, but it’s interesting.

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