Investigation Post 5/1

Work Log

Monday: Editing CV 9 Documentary 

Tuesday: Editing CV 9 Documentary 

Wednesday: Editing CV 9 Documentary 

Thursday: 3D Text Exercise 

Friday: 3D Text Exercise

3D Text on After Effects

For this week of trying new things out, I wanted to learn about After Effects more. To do this, I decided I wanted to learn about 3D text and how that would work. I thought it would be simple, and that there would just be a text effect to put onto it to complete my exercise. However, while that is kind of correct, I ended up learning A LOT on what I can do to make it look better as 3D text in addition to simply making my text 3D

To learn a little bit about how to accomplish this task, I looked up videos on how to do 3D text in after effects. This was the video I ended up following as a tutorial. I followed his instructions on how to make my text look better in 3D up until the 13/17 minute mark or so, as I was satisfied with what I had learned. I may revisit the rest in the future if I wish to learn more.

Here are a few screenshots of my work and a summary of what I did to get to them.

The first thing I did was add a text layer to a composition. I changed the settings of my comp to be able to do 3D objects and then made my text 3D with a setting I could put onto it. I then went and added a light feature to my composition which was very interesting.

I added multiple lights to the work, rotated the camera around, moved around the lights and their angles to better encompass the text, and then to change the color of the text I actually changed the color of the light directly in front of the text.

I added a slight bevel to the text after that and added an ambient light to the text to add just a little more colored detail. My goal originally with this was actually to have this 3D text appear in a video I had as a physical object, so I then key framed its position on the video and the following is the result of such. There is first the video without the clip as the background, and then the finished video.