From the course: Element 3D Essential Training (2013)

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Changing an object's anchor point

Changing an object's anchor point

Another really important part of working with 3D Objects, especially when you're going to animate, is working with the object's anchor point, and that's not super clear where that is in Element, so that's what we are going to talk about in this movie. We have this little project; I have this telephone pole, the one which ships with Element, tracked to a live-action shot here, and I want to make it seem like it's toppling over, like it's going to fall over, and of course, my shadow is fake here, so when I drop this down, it's not going to look right with the shadow. But also, it spins from the center, because by default, when you create a 3D object in Element, it puts the anchor point right in the center, so if we want to have this topple over, it's not going to work. So to remedy this, let's go head and click the Scene Setup button, then click on the object itself, and then when we see the options down here, we will see the Anchor Point dropdown, and like I said, by default, this is…

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