From the course: Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Working with 3D Objects

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Drawing planes

Drawing planes

- With an image open, I can invoke Vanishing Point. It's actually a filter that you run, and you'll find it near the top of the Filter menu. Let's select the layer with the building and choose Filter, Vanishing Point. Now you'll notice in this case there's already planes on the object. We're going to delete these in just a second, but I wanted you to see the three planes we talked about earlier, from here to here, and then here to here, and here to here. And these planes indicate different parts of the building. All right, let's select that and press delete to clear them out. What we're going to do now is draw the plane. To do this, select the second tool down here called Create Plane and click on the objects. Now we're going to start with a well-defined area here using the balcony. And what I'm going to do is create a strong, very direct plane using the edges of the window and the building for guidance. You'll see there that the lines properly line up with the windows. Once you've…

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