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Turning 2D layers into 3D layers

Turning 2D layers into 3D layers

Folks, this chapter represents almost like a transition of sorts in this training series. We're going to be going from kind of initiatory After Effects features to more significant, complex, and advanced ones, starting with, in this chapter, 3D. We're going to take this map of this olive farm, and we're going to bring this to life by making these elements 3D. This is a significantly more complex project that we've seen before. It's much more like a real- world After Effects project. There are 42 visible layers in this. So, there is a lot to play with, and what we're going to do is we're going to take some of these layers - again, this is just from a flat Illustrator file, just a regular old run-of-the-mill graphics file - We are going to make this come alive by moving these pieces of this map in 3D space. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to select this Icon 2. Let's select. This is layer number 6. Go ahead and select that layer. What we're going to do is hit the letter P for…

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