From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 06 Type and Music
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Exploring per-character 3D - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 06 Type and Music
Exploring per-character 3D
- [Instructor] If you have the exercise files, go ahead and open Comp 07 3D Rotation Starter. If you don't have the exercise files, just create a cascading animation with opacity set to 0%. With the cascading animation, more than one character at a time is typing on. So, when you add rotation, you'll have a more interesting effect than if you were using a simple typing on animation. So, the first thing I'm going to do is click on either Add or Animate and select Property, Enable Per-character 3D. And by the way, this will enable per-character 3D for all of your animators if you have more than one. Next, I'll select Add, Property, Rotation. And instead of just one parameter called rotation I'll see X, Y, and Z rotation. If you don't see all three parameters, make sure that you have indeed enabled per-character 3D, that it's checked and that you haven't simply turned on the 3D switch, say for your layer. Now, before I change…
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