From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 11 3D Space
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Editing 3D motion paths - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 11 3D Space
Editing 3D motion paths
I am going to return my 3D View pop-up to Active Camera, because that's what we'll ultimately render from After Effects, and Preview my animation again. And I did want a nice arcing slam down, but this is just lacking excitement. I am going to need to look at this from multiple views and refine that Motion Path to get it the way that I like. And, by the way, you'll learn this about 3D, we joke that it's called 3D because it takes three times as long to do anything, and that's particularly true when it comes to tweaking these Motion Paths. I'll select my Under layer, I'll work with that one first, and look at it from the side, such as the Left View. And now I see part of my problem. I wanted this layer to slam down this way, but now that I look at it from Left View, I see it's actually arcing up here and sliding down into place. It doesn't have quite the drama of a slam that I was really hoping for. Now, I could start moving between these different views; Left, Top, Active Camera…
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