[Victor Nash]

Perhaps start with a clean slate. Maybe you have some crazy 3d placement X/Y/Z going on. Create a New Comp and build a quick environment with a floor and some sort of floating 3d text or solid. Then create the Camera and Null, and get the camera parented to the ‘3d’ Null. Then paste your path into the Null’s position. Feel free to change your “Camera View” so you can see how your path has been placed.. Again, Im not sure what your path looks like, .. sometimes retracing your steps you’ll find something silly.

[Victor Nash]

Create a Null layer, Parent the camera to the null, and then repaste the path into the position of the Null. Iam not quite sure what your path looks like… So i am guessing here..

[Victor Nash]

You might want to study this tutorial

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/gerard_rick/AEWeekly2/index.html

It goes over how the path goes to the cameras XY plane.. You’ll probably need a Null to help control your camera more percisely.. Then again.. You could just animate your camera, depending how complex it is?

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[Victor Nash]

There are some in your Applications Folder (mac) Programs Folder (pc) in your After Effects folder.. Look in your templates folder..

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[Victor Nash]

or just go to http://www.belief.com and check out the “Pollinate” movie. A great way to rethink about your environment and way of thinking..

https://www.belief.com/experiments/index.php?theme=bubbles&section=experiments&project=01.Pollinate%20Sessions&id=01.Pollinate:%20Chain%20Reaction.400×300.mov

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[Victor Nash]

Highlight Your Keyframes and ‘right click’.. keyframe interpolation and Choose Linear.
Aaron R. has a podcast talking about this very thing.

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[Victor Nash]

whoa. You’re like the librarian for resources and tutorials in creative cow .. ha.
Where did you pick up all your expression knowledge, minus Dan’s super cool motionscript.com
thanks

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[Victor Nash]

You could just Auto-Orient towards the camera as they go behind.
But if you really want “thickness”.. just add this expression to the position value of your 3d object (2d) 🙂

position+[0,0,(index-1)*.5]

Then Duplicated around 30times, or whatever. Add a Pespective >Bevel Alpha to them all and Then Precomp, Collapse Transforms

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[Victor Nash]

OR even better.. just starting pushing buttons and see what happens 🙂 then read the manual later to understand it 🙂

[Victor Nash]

nope, no animation on the houses, only camera animation. Everything else is fixed. The odd thing is that it’s not doing it on my Mac at home. Perhaps I should of just rebooted my Mac at work. Im thinking its some computer hiccup