The Naked Truth About 3D Rotations

The Naked Truth About 3D Rotations

on Mar 26th 2012 with 17 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects and an Open Mind :)
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: 20:59 min
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Naked Truth About

Naked Truth About

Third of the series: “Naked Truth About…” In this video I am showing issues with rotations in 3D space and ways to deal with them. Have you ever wondered what is the difference between Rotation and Orientation? We set two keyframes for rotations and the layer rotates strangely. Has it ever happened to you? Those problems are NOT After Effects specific. This video explains the way rotations in 3D space work. Once you understand the concept – it will be easier for you to tame rotations not only in After Effects, but also in other applications. Have fun.

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  • MarkB

    Wow. I’m still trying to wrap my head around all this. Confusing and enlightening at the same time! Good stuff…thank you!

  • Steph

    Wow great info but man I have to say it started to all become a blur after awhile…so much info for such a small brain as mine :-)

  • http://www.robotika.org William J. Meyer

    I enjoyed this. Thank you.

  • http://www.creativedojo.net VinhSon Nguyen

    Really awesome tutorial, I love the explanation :) I’d love to see more of these types of tutorials!

  • gokhan

    Hi i think this is great tutorial but I can’t download file from this page….
    please check the video file,I can’t download….

    Thanks.

  • Nio

    Dude, you are crazy!!!

    Thanks a lot about explaining this mystery!!!

    Great tutorial! For me, the complex rotation of objects and their animation was question of luck…sometimes they were ok, sometimes it was just weird …and wrong.

    The rotation is the most frustrating thing in AE, when you don’t understand it…and of course the camera rotation is also a pain.

    Thanks again for explaining in depth!

    In fact how you know all these things?

  • http://root-project.org SeriousM

    wow, that was really helpful!
    finally, there is a good explaination of quaternions and euler rotation!
    thank you so much for this :)

  • http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/ Todd Kopriva

    Well done.

  • Luís Mestre

    Nice Tutorial, at first I felt a bit confused but when I finished watching all of the tutorial I finally understood a problem I had a little time ago with the rotation and orientation. Thank you for this magnificent tutorial

  • http://www.crozer.me Christopher

    Did you invent AE or something? Your “Naked Truth” series are fantastic; please do not stop making them!

    Regards,
    A new fan.

  • Kuni

    Thank you very much… i had a problem in one of my animations facing the 3D Rotation. Now I know how to fix it :)

  • Julian

    I wrote an AE expression to convert between different Euler rotation orders:
    http://www.videocopilot.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=59112&p=231213

    Of course normally you can do everything by parenting, but this is for the use with CC Sphere, so it was quite useful for one of my projects.

  • http://think360studio.com/ Think360studio

    Thanks Bartek this tutorial is really awesome because it gives good info about 3D rotations.

  • Loay Emad El-Aswad

    That was very useful. Thank you

  • iceman600

    my head is about to explode right now…

  • Chad

    Before watching this video = ummm…. what is there to even say about rotation?
    After watching this video = rotations blow my mind!

  • 郭超

    废话太多……整个视频大部分全是Rotation词，受不了你