Chapter 11. Building and Animating a 3D Object
By clicking a single switch in the Timeline panel in After Effects, you can turn a 2D layer into a 3D layer, opening up a whole new world of creative possibilities.
Lesson overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:
Create a 3D shape from a solid layer.
Animate shapes in three dimensions.
Look at a 3D scene from multiple views.
Apply the Grid effect to add depth perspective.
Control the way a layer animates by moving its anchor point.
Rotate and position layers along x, y, and z axes.
After Effects can work with layers in two dimensions (x, y) or three dimensions (x, y, z). So far in this ...
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