From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)

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Setting the initial depth

Setting the initial depth

- [Instructor] Once we have the 3D camera and the layers in 3D space, it's time to create the diorama. We need to spread these layers out along the Z-axis, and adjust their scale to create an environment. Let's start with the sailor shot here. And I'm going to switch this to two views. Now what we need to do is spread these layers apart. I'll select the one here on the left, and I'm going to set this to Custom View One, which is 45 degrees to the left, and 45 degrees up. It gives you a nice 3D environment. Now let's move things around. I'm going to take the bush layer here and press P for position, and actually move that a little bit closer to the camera. But, you see it's too big. So I'll press S for scale, and drag so that the boundary lines up with the edges nicely. There we go. That looks pretty good. And you may recall we had a reference layer. If I select that reference layer, and switch it's blending mode to…

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