After Effects Apprentice: 18 3D Text Cinema 4D Lite
1h 20mIntermediate2016-03-07
Authors
Chris Meyer
Principle at Crish Design
Trish Meyer
Principle at Crish Design, an award-winning graphic design studio
Course details
After Effects CC comes bundled with the 3D application CINEMA 4D Lite. But many new users are intimidated by 3D space. After Effects Apprentice offers three training courses just for C4D beginners. In this installment, After Effects expert Chris Meyer shows you how to create, extrude, and animate 3D text in C4D Lite, and believably composite it over a 2D background inside After Effects. The tutorials cover creating 3D text from scratch, animating with effectors, texture mapping and lighting the text, working with 3D cameras, and rendering. Chris also shows a workflow for extruding Illustrator artwork for animation.
Learning objectives
Extruding 3D text and Illustrator artwork
Beveling letters
Creating animations using the Fracture object and plain effector
Texturing and lighting
Adding a camera move in After Effects
Using multipass renders
Simulating glass-like effect distortions
Improving render quality
Learning objectives
Extruding 3D text and Illustrator artwork
Beveling letters
Creating animations using the Fracture object and plain effector
Texturing and lighting
Adding a camera move in After Effects
Using multipass renders
Simulating glass-like effect distortions
Improving render quality
Skills covered
Motion Graphics3D AnimationAfter EffectsRenderingMotion Graphics and VFX3D ModelingVisualization and Real-TimeLimited SeriesAdobeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and Illustration
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - Exercise files and software versions
1. Creating the Text
- 03 - Setting up the projects
- 04 - Creating and kerning text in C4D Lite
- 05 - Extruding the text
- 06 - Beveling the characters
- 07 - Using Illustrator artwork
2. Building the Animation
- 08 - Applying fracture to separate the characters
- 09 - Using the plain effector to offset the text
- 10 - Creating a cascade
- 11 - Animating the effector
- 12 - Refining the animation in the F-curve editor
3. Texture and Lighting
- 13 - Applying a texture preset
- 14 - Texturing just the bevels
- 15 - Lighting the scene
4. Camera Move
- 16 - Using the comp camera
- 17 - Keyframing the move
5. Compositing in After Effects
- 18 - Setting up an object buffer for the text
- 19 - Separating a multpass render
- 20 - Faking glass distortion
- 21 - Improving render quality
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