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Applying a texture preset

Applying a texture preset - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 18 3D Text Cinema 4D Lite

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Applying a texture preset

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- [Voiceover] We've created a nice animation for our text, but now we need to make it look prettier. Right now, it just has this basic white color. I'll hover my cursor over the display I want to render and type command r on Mac, control r on Windows. There's my preview, and it's not all that pretty. Again, I could hover my cursor over any of these views, hit command or control r to render them. I think rather than using this default, white color, I'd like something that was more of a glass block like what we discussed earlier. So to do that, I wanna take advantage of Materials. I'm gonna change my Panel view to just a View 1, so I get to see the text very large. I'm gonna move it around so I can see it pretty close to full size here so I can really enjoy and closely study the final result. And I'm gonna set this up so I can see a few of the characters animating, so I get to see them at different angles of rotation, as well. You can create textures from scratch. You can also take…

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