Making a pre-exsisting logo 3D, and animating in AE CS6.

[Dan Asselin]

Maybe I’m missong something but this seems like a job for Zaxwerks
https://www.zaxwerks.com/

[Todd Kopriva]

Dan,

The Zaxwerks plug-ins are indeed good for much 3D animation in After Effects. They’re not cheap, so it makes sense to at least evaluate whether they’re needed for this specific job.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

You have many options and that’s the beauty of AE!
Let me add one more: ShapeShifter AE. Most 3d logos I do in AE are done using this plugin from Mettle. Best part is that you can keep the shapes 2d, animate them coming together, and then use the plugin to extrude and distort them in 3D. Using clever displacement maps you can model the pieces and you have a choice of using the flat colors or adding lights, reflections and complexity to the texture. There’s plenty of examples of what you can do with logos on the mettle site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daxCSPjeYsM

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

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