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Working with null objects

Working with null objects

A lot of times when I'm working with 3D motion graphics, which is this scene right here we have layered in 3D space, it's often kind of difficult to use a camera. It's unwieldy. It's a little bit challenging. It often doesn't get me the results I'm looking for. So, what I do instead is I like to create something like a null object that is the parent of the 3D layers. I find oftentimes that that is much easier to control. So, here is what we're going to do. We're going to create a null object to be the parent of these 3D layers. So, I'm going to right-click in this blank area here in the Timeline to get this New menu. I'm going to create a new null object. A null object, as the name implies, the word null means nothing. So a null object is really a nothing object. There is nothing here, just a blank layer. This little red square is the null object, but it won't render. It's just is this little like red box for preview purposes only. We can still use the Null if we take off its…

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