[Steve Pawley]

It’s 3D as much as possible. I certainly don’t want some complicated build and extruding in After Effects is more than effective. It is just the way the bevel option works on the extrusion option. It doesn’t make sense to me as I can’t recall any other software making an object bigger when adding bevel.

I shall explore the some more and look into how C4D Lite works ☺ – hopefully below you can see the difference between applying bevel on my 3D shapes in Photoshop (on the left – grey shapes) vs Ae (Right – green shapes)- I want something closer to the Photoshop option, just a bit heavier set without the enlargement you get with Ae

Thank you

[Steve Pawley]

Thank you. I will follow this and see how effectively I can implement something that works. I think its going to take me some time to adjust to Ae/Pr – I can see already that they have a very different relationship to FCPX & Motion.

Something else I want to replicate in AE that I did in Motion 5 – I created a 3D virtual room where the walls were giant video screens. I then could drop what I liked into the 3D space and link any visual imagery to the walls.

Had good fun with this approach several times for very different purposes – the first being a music video where I dropped the band into the virtual room and had b-roll videos playing on the screens as the band played.

Thank you again. Any further direction would be greatly appreciated.

Steve