Adobe After Effects for Beginners

Overview

“Here, I will show you how to create simple 3D texts exploring specific characteristics of the material, such as "Extrude" and "Lighting". I will show you how to insert lights, how they work within the timeline, how to edit them and how they react on the object. And finally, I will talk about how to control the shadows generated by the incidence of the lights.”

In this video lesson Manuel Neto addresses the topic: 3D Text (Light and Shadows), which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 4: 3D Composition. Learn to create animated texts, objects, icons, and 3D environments.

Partial transcription of the video

“ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS / COURSE 4 CLASS - 3D Text (Light and Shadows) Hello guys! In this unit, I’ll show you how to create 3D text through a very simple tool called Extrude, and I’ll show you how lights and shadows work here within After Effects. Let's start? First, we need to understand how they work the composition renderers within After Effects. So, clicking on composition, New Composition, will come in the composition settings the 3D renderer option. And you have 3 renderer options: Classic 3D, which is the traditional After Effects renderer. It makes it possible to position objects, shap...”

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Course summary for: Course 4: 3D Composition

• Level: Beginner
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