Steve Roberts
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Yes, you can fly around quite nicely, but not by making the AE layer “3D” in the AE-3D sense. You have to either use the Invig camera (or set Invig to use AE’s camera — if it does that) but the layer that has had Invig applied has to stay “2D”, with AE’s little cube button unchecked.
It’s a formality: the Invig layer is not like a normal 3D layer.
For more info, check the Zaxwerks forum.
Caveat: I haven’t used Invig in years, having gone full 3D a while ago.
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I was a young photo assistant at the time, standing in for a portrait of a columnist/birdwatcher shot in a small wildlife sanctuary by Toronto’s waterfront. The duck was stuffed and clamped to a C-stand.
Sorry to spoil the illusion, Dave. 🙂
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Yes. It’s one of those effects that basically makes a movie of a 3D object that plays on one of AE’s layers, as if that layer were a flat movie screen. This is why if you apply Invig to an AE layer, that layer has to stay 2D to maintain the illusion.
Otherwise you’d be moving around a flat movie screen, no?
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I’d look at what’s out there and fill in the gaps.
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Fill is good.
I use it a lot, applied over other effects, or sometimes over text. -
Indeed.
By the way, when working in 3D, always, always create a camera layer. Don’t just make your layers 3D then start moving things around.
But you knew that. 🙂
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Hmph. Yes, I see the problem.
Apply the Fill effect after the Foam effect — set to white.
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Got pics? Vid?
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Ah. 3D stroke is a third-party plugin by Trapcode. A must-have, in my opinion.
If you don’t have it, consider drawing a mask in the shape that you want (long arc with bulging middle). Then make the drop shadow by making another mask, but straight this time, using a black solid, blurred, semi-transparent.
All this would be 2D fakery, not 3D, if you don’t own 3D Stroke.