2016
Lynda
Chris Meyer and Trish Meyer
1:20
English

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.
The first course in the series, After Effects Apprentice 17, includes an overview of the C4D Lite user interface, as well as important setup information you need to know whenever you use live C4D layers in After Effects. We recommend you watch it first if you have no prior experience with C4D.

Introduction
Welcome
Exercise files and software versions
1. Creating the Text
Setting up the projects
Creating and kerning text in C4D Lite
Extruding the text
Beveling the characters
Using Illustrator artwork
2. Building the Animation
Applying fracture to separate the characters
Using the plain effector to offset the text
Creating a cascade
Animating the effector
Refining the animation in the F-curve editor
3. Texture and Lighting
Applying a texture preset
Texturing just the bevels
Lighting the scene
4. Camera Move
Using the comp camera
Keyframing the move
5. Compositing in After Effects
Setting up an object buffer for the text
Separating a multpass render
Faking glass distortion
Improving render quality

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