Line Up A 3D Smiley Toy Packshot Display
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: Just After Effects... enjoy
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Run Time: 38 min
Download Source Files
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Originally created for a broadcast commercial to showcase a range of Smiley plush characters, I decided to create a tutorial from it because there are many useful techniques I used to go from the original 2d jpegs to a 3d scene with depth, shadows, reflections and even a 3d product logo. As always in AE, there are many ways to achieve an effect…these are just the ones I chose to make this spot.
Tutorial
Download Tutorial .flv
File size 353 MB
Enjoyed this Post?
Subscribe to our RSS Feed, Follow us on Twitter or simply recommend us to friends and colleagues!
By Adam Taylor
I have been editing audio/video for over 20years, working across a wide range of genres...commercials, animation, news & current affairs, etc.
I currently do all the post production work for Character Options tv commercials, which whilst UK based, do get seen around the globe under various other brand names.
Join our newsletter!
Freelance Jobs
Create a Tutorial, Get Paid!
Have something to teach the world? Want to earn money doing it? Tutorials, screencasts, and articles published here on Aetuts+ are largely contributed by readers just like you! We'll pay you great money for good content. Find Out More
And you call it a tutorial??? Intermediate??? Where is the editor of this site???
what is this?
Soon we’ll start to see “Intermediate” tutorials on how to double click the after effects icon to open the program…
Hey, that must be advanced i believe..
yeah, sorry this is pretty basic.. final product isn’t that great but as a basic technique for beginners i guess its a good starting point.
intermediate? whoever decided that should be shot, then roasted over a fire, pushed off a cliff, and then fed to sharks -.-
You need 38 minutes to teach this effect?? Really?
I must say,
the quality of tuts has gone down on this site. This is not even a beginners tuturial and if this guy really thought of using this in an actual ad, i would question his chops if I were the client.
The editor of this site is sleeping perhaps. In his sleep he approves such tuts and even tag them as “intermediate”.
I think the smileys look ok, but how can you get rid of the anti aliasing on the aetuts logo?
20 yrs of experience and 353 mb for this ?
Cool article, ncie intro.
wow… this helped me with nothing !!
Intermediate, basic, advanced………… you guys are seriously making this fuzz about just one word?
There are some ideas came in my mind and would like to share with the editors of various tut+ sites-
1) Why don’t you guys make a poll on the future tuts? On one particular date of every month, you can post several tuts examples with the content pitch and the preview and then ask the audience to vote for the tuts they like to be released. This could be done on for 3 levels- beginner, intermediate and advanced. In this way this would be the matter of choice and wouldn’t create fuzz around. Also, only the quality material will come out by doing this.
2) Also Tuts+ should organize some competitions like Modeling competition, VFX competitions or competition on some theme like “make a haunted scene” etc etc. In this way everybody can participate in it.
I am sorry if this is not the right place to write these points.
Cheers!
I’m sorry to disagree with most of you.
I found this to be the most tutorial like out of most of the demonstrations which are presented here.
I think he did a fine job. I’m not going to debate “worthiness”. He was well organized, and clear to understand. I don’t even care who the target audience or difficulty level was meant for.
I don’t know what most of you are expecting, but I’m starting to not like reading comments, because most seem self-serving. Maybe a requirement should be to post some of your own work or contributions, prior to posting. Just seems the mods should be concerned AETUTS is becoming a hater comment page like a youtube post.
Totally agreed.
You couldn’t have said it better.
This community used to be positive. People used to encourage other ways to achieve similar effects (in a positive manner)…now it just seems like everyone wants to complain about tutorials not being good enough, or about how things are too easy.
Yuck, major aliasing problems in this. . . .
thanks for the kind words – made me smile after the vitriol posted earlier!
I think the problem for many is they think that if they know a thing, then so must everyone else. That ain’t so, and if you didn’t get anything from the tutorial – tough! I’m sure some will.
adam
Adam,definitely it not an intermediate tut, but I am sure it will be really helpful for starters. Visitors always forget that there are beginners come here also. I totally agree with you.
rks has certainly forgotten that having 20 years of experience doesn’t mean that you can’t make a tut for beginners in detail. Don’t worry of his words, he is garbage, dumped by videocopilot.com people.
Cheers :)
really !! ;)