[Filip Vandueren]

If the camera doesn’t move, be sure to make a “clean slate”
a shot of the empty decor, without mouse & strings, that way you have something to fill in the blanks.

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi here are the xpressions for the x y and z rotations, for CC sphere, I’m still working on the expression for Light height & direction,
when it comes to vector math, I’m a trial and error guy

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi here are the xpressions for the x y and z rotations, for CC sphere, I’m still working on the expression for Light height & direction,
when it comes to vector math, I’m a trial and error guy

[Filip Vandueren]

After Effects Production Bundle has a plugin-designed to do just that;
The trick is you have to render an .RLA sequence with the depth embedded in the picture, you can then use the effect 3D Channel->Depth of Field.

Another way is to use the “Compound Blur” effect, it takes as the first argument a layer (choose your grayscale Z-layer), and then applies a blur from 0-maxBlurValue based on the brightness of the layer.
Black pixels get no blur, white maximum blur.

If you want to “shift the focus”, you should precompose the greyscale layer and put a curve on it, something like an inverted solarize:

This will map black and white to white, and 50% grey to black, so you get a focus in the middle of your depth.
Alter the curve to fit your need

the grey-layer has to be in sync with the RGBA render in the timeline, but does not have to be visible.

[Filip Vandueren]

Possibly you won’t need any scripts, take a look at the text-animation-presets in the helpfiles.

Dependeing on the look you’re after, that could be all you need.

[Filip Vandueren]

Possibly you won’t need any scripts, take a look at the text-animation-presets in the helpfiles.

Dependeing on the look you’re after, that could be all you need.

[Filip Vandueren]

Yeah, off course the animated text would work as a flat 3d-layer,
but there’s no way to give fi. different words different Z-positions and then pan round them and such.

That can probably be achieved with some clever Particle-systems, or with every letter or word on a different layer 8-/

[Filip Vandueren]

There are no font-controls for Z-depth, XYZ rotation etc.

In AE6.5 You can achieve some pseudo-3d effects by using scale with the new Anchor-point grouping selection. If you set it ‘all’ , scaling will appear like head-on Z-axis movement, but that’s about it for now.

[Filip Vandueren]

Check out Photoshop’s Perspective cropping, that should give you straight versions of your walls,
then look up “3d Cube” in the search as a starting point.

[Filip Vandueren]

Short answer: No,

After Effects has no “edit in place” a la Flash.

what you can do is open a second window, so you can see the changes you make in the precomp reflected immediately in the parent-comp.
Just drag the tab of the maincomp out of your preview window.

If that’s no option, try “de-composing”, bring all the layers back in the main comp.

BTW; if after effects is getting sluggish, look into using smaller place-holders or proxys for your layers