Walking Through 3d Text – AE Premium
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: After Effects, (optional): The Foundry's CameraTracker
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Run Time: 35:06 min
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating
In today’s tutorial we’re going show how to create the super popular effect of having a person walk right through a 3d logo or text. We’ll cover shooting tips, matchmoving principles, and a whole lot of other helpful info to pull this shot off right! We’ll also show you a way to create this effect without using ANY expensive 3rd party plug-ins!
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i was wondering..how did you make the 3d text? or was the text just 3d without depth? or was it the duplicating of layers?
For the example, I had just done the quick duplicating of layers…
Hi Adam
I really appreciate the tutorial as I think its a really cool concept. BUT I’m now trying to following along and I get really frustrated when the tutorial instructor makes the assumption that we know what key your pressing to do something within AE.
It would really help if you just said what you were doing as your were doing it. I know this is an intermediate lesson but us newbie want to try to create it too.
I’m not a complete novice with AE but I haven’t used Camera Tracker before and when your delete the red and yellow markers you never say what you are doing to delete them or to select them.
Additionally, I understand you trying to save time with the tutorial but when you fly through certain actions or make us watch another tutorial to get the rotoscoping down just really adds a lot of time to the learning curve. It would have been nice to see what you did in more detail.
Im not complaining really just whining
I appreciate that feedback… I’ll try to work on being more vocal with every keystroke I do… I think I don’t want to be insulting or waste time, but it’s always hard to find the balance of how much I should or shouldn’t include. Thanks again.
Not sure the name of the program, but some tutorial videos I watch have a little bar at the top that when the trainer presses anything on the keyboard or mouse the strokes are recorded at the top of the screen. this way he doesn’t have to stop and explain anything and the viewer still knows what he did. So when he presses ctrl+shift+i to invert a selection, it just says that ta the top rather than him having to say the buttons leaving him to just say… “and we’ll invert the selection like this…”, “then deselect” and then ctrl+d would appear at the top, etc.
Wish I knew the name of the app that records these keystrokes, but i remember the author explaining to look at the top and he said it was a pretty cheap and easy piece of software he used. wish I knew more…
thanks
Hi Adam
I’ve gone through this tutorial numerous times and have recreated it using 4 people. For the first person, all the steps worked and the video came out smooth. But in the following videos, I am running into problems with the motion tracking, and, I think, it is causing the text to “pulsate” and “wiggle” in place. I’ve tried to track different places on the videos, I’ve tried selecting big and small areas, I’ve tried manual tracking, and I’ve tried watching other tutorials on motion tracking. Is there anything you can suggest? Thanks.
Send me the a clip so I can take a look… ae@tutsplus.com. That’s my dropbox if you wanna use that. or just email me a link to a file.