Creating 3D text

- So in this fourth composition I've got…an example of per-character 3D,…and so let's take a look here. We've got 3D text,…thanks to our cinema D renderer,…we've got it extruded and I also have text animators,…animating on the position and rotation…of each of those 3D characters.…So let's see how we can build this from scratch.…I'm going to turn this layer off, and I have…a 2D layer that we can start with.…You'll notice that it's all flat,…there's nothing here, until we hit that 3D switch.…Now we have some extrusion going on.…

Let's twirl down and go to add a position animator,…and you'll notice that the position animator…comes in with only X and Y values,…so even though this is a 3D layer,…our animator's only talking to our characters…in X and Y. So, in order to create the third axis,…let's go here to "Enable Per-character 3D".…And the second we do that, we now have the…Z space available to us. So, I'm going to take this…and input a negative value here so that…all the characters come and start towards us,…or from behind camera, maybe 1000 will do.…