From the course: After Effects Guru: Advanced Photoshop Techniques
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Preparing still images for 3D camera moves
From the course: After Effects Guru: Advanced Photoshop Techniques
Preparing still images for 3D camera moves
- As designers, we're quite often tasked with making something out of nothing. My favorite is when somebody actually asks you to create an animated graphic, and they don't give you any actual footage to work with. So that's what we're actually going to do in this video, we're going to take a still image, and not only just take that still image and move around in the image, but we're actually going to extract that image into 3D space, and light it, and create a dynamic move throughout the scene. Thus creating a dynamic, animated motion graphic, just with one still image. Let's get started. Now before we start optimizing this still for animation, I want to make sure we're all in the same workspace, so let's go up under Window, Workspace, and make sure you're in the Essentials Workspace. If yours doesn't look like this, make sure to go ahead and reset your Essentials Workspace. Now when you're looking at any still, you have to determine whether or not the overall still is the most…
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