From the course: Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Working with Type
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Animating 3D text in Photoshop
From the course: Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Working with Type
Animating 3D text in Photoshop
- Once you've built a 3D scene, you could animate the objects within the scene as well as the camera's position. To do this, you'll want to bring up the timeline. Now in order to create an animation, you'll need to create a video timeline. And from the pop-up list here, if needed, you could set the frame rate for that timeline. And just click 'OK' Now if you take a look at the different properties here, you'll notice that there are controls such as the camera position, and the render settings, and the lights, the materials. This lets you adjust what's happening with the different elements. Let's say we wanna animate the arrow, for example. Now the properties you want to control are for the 3D mesh. If you don't see these controls, make sure you enable the 3D tracks and that will turn them on. Now you can animate the materials, the lights, and the mesh. So let's go ahead for example, and click the stopwatch here for the default position, and then I'll move later in the composition…
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