From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 16 Creating a Medical Opening Title
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Arranging layers in 3D space - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 16 Creating a Medical Opening Title
Arranging layers in 3D space
My next step in this creative process is coming up with some basic arrangement of these layers in 3D space that I might want to move the camera around. Now one common thing to do is something like a gallery wall. We have a bunch of pictures on a wall and then you move the camera, passing, ending up on the final picture that you want to focus on. To do that, I'm going to need a much bigger view port in my Final Comp panel and just this 100% view of my final rendered image. So I'm going to hold on Cmd or Ctrl, pressing the minus key to zoom down a little bit to give myself some more room to work here. Then press and hold the spacebar to temporarily get the Hand tool move things over. Let's say I want to do a camera move from left to right ending up on our final high definition video. I'll start dragging up my layers in space. I'm just trying out some different arrangements for where I might want to place these videos. I can go ahead and place things randomly by different arrangements…
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