Use a comp as “texture” for a shape’s extrusion

[Jerome Laville]

Hi,

After having extruded a shape, is there a way to “project” something onto the extrusion?

By default the extrusion will use the same colour as the shape. Instead, I would like to use it to show a video — think of it as a wall onto which a film is projected.

I suppose this would be similar to the famous Marvel intro (starts at 17 seconds https://youtu.be/k1547CezWqQ?t=17).

I could find a way to use it as a mask, but of course the video wouldn’t adjust to the shape’s depth and curves, and that would be especially noticeable if I projected it onto text (e.g. the letter O).

Many thanks.

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[Walter Soyka]

I don’t think there’s a way to do this with extruded shape layers in After Effects. You’d be better off using Video Copilot’s Element 3D plugin, or doing this in C4D.

[Jerome Laville]

That makes sense to me. Thank you for taking the time to reply!