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A look at options for built-in 3D and CINEMA 4D Lite

A look at options for built-in 3D and CINEMA 4D Lite - After Effects Tutorial

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A look at options for built-in 3D and CINEMA 4D Lite

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- After Effects has a built in renderer designed to work with both 3D text and shapes. You also have the ability of going to Cinema 4D Lite for 3D. Let's take a look at some of the options available with your Adobe CC subscription. So let's take a look at some of the 3D options available to us in After Effects without having to go into third-party plug-ins. You can see here I'm in my Chapter 4_1 RT composition. RT stands for "Ray-traced." And there are a few things already set up in my project. I've got a solid that's locked called "ramp." I've got a Illustrator file "snowflake." I've got a text layer and I've got a camera. And I want to basically take the text layer as well as the Illustrator file and make them extruded in 3D space. So before I do this to the Illustrator file, what I need to do is select it and go to the layer menu and choose to Create Shapes from Vector Layer. This will create a Shape Layer of my Vector Layer that I can now extrude using the Ray-traced renderer…

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