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Match curvature surface distortion

Match curvature surface distortion - After Effects Tutorial

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Match curvature surface distortion

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- [Narrator] Hello and welcome to another episode of After Effects Weekly. And this one has a twist to it, and I mean it literally. In few minutes, you'll see how easy it is to bend any layer so it can curve along a surface, like a title on an asphalt bridge. So this is what we are aiming for, and let me show you how to achieve that. So I'll escape out of fullscreen and close the final column, and let's start with this footage coming to us courtesy of Adobe Stock. So this is it without any title obviously, just so you see it from start to end, and I've already took the time and apply the 3D camera tracker effect by going to the animation menu and choosing track camera. So, what I'll do now is park my cursor let's say over here, before the runner is coming to the screen, and I'll click to establish a ground plane. Now, I'm also going to right click, set the ground plane in origin so this is going to be the 000 point of this…

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