From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 18 3D Text Cinema 4D Lite
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Extruding the text - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 18 3D Text Cinema 4D Lite
Extruding the text
- [Voiceover] To convert my text outlines into an actual model I need to extrude it. I need to draw it out along the Z dimension to give it some thickness. In the next movie, I'll add what's referred to as a fillet or a bevel to make the edges look more interesting on our extruded object. To do this, I'm gonna go up to the icon for Subdivision Surface, click on it and choose Extrude. Now I have a separate extrude object in my objects manager. To extrude my text, I select my text and drag it on top of the extrude object. You know the icon changes to that downward facing arrow to indicate the text is about to become a child of extrude. When I do that, now I have some thickness. I'm gonna select the extrude object not stay with the text object but go back to extrude. And then underneath its Object tab decide how much movement I want, how much depth or thickness to it. Now avoid the temptation to make things that are really really thick. You see it looks like an outdated special effect or…
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