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Text and vector extrusion

Text and vector extrusion - After Effects Tutorial

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Text and vector extrusion

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The next tool that we are going to examine is metal shapeshifter AE. This is a plugin that works inside After Effects and can generate and animate true 3D text in the comp window. It also have a lot of other features, such as 3D deformations. 3D displacement mapping, and a very exciting generator engine which can replicate 3D object multiple times on a single layer. Of course, not all of those features are relevent to our example which consist of a basic 3D materials and This is our starting point, and we need to take this one and see how well shape shifter AE perform, using this initial beginning state. I just want to remind you that this is what we are aiming for, so I already placed here the boom design, the PSD. Which has the look that we need to recreate. For the moment I'm going to turn it off, and we can begin. So in this movie we are going to use the shapeshifter plug in to extrude the boom text layer and also the explode vector layer and then we'll match the 3D coordinates…

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