From the course: After Effects Breakdowns: N-Trig Commercial

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Blue-print design comes to life

Blue-print design comes to life

From the course: After Effects Breakdowns: N-Trig Commercial

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Blue-print design comes to life

- After the 3D render is in place, it's time to bring the paper to life. Most of the work in this stage was done inside Photoshop by laying down all the elements in separated layers. Then, those layered PSD documents were imported into After Effects as separated comps. And, few of them were also animated to reveal the pen outline shape with some text remarks. All of this together can create the sense of an animated blueprint, so let me show you how some of these steps were achieved in order to create this movie. So, I'm still inside this paper pre-comp and I've already activated the eye for the blueprint paper. This is the comp that we are going to analyze, so I'm going to double click on it in order to show it to you. We can see that we have four layers. We're going to open the paper layer in a moment, but I just want to explain what the other three are doing here. So, the 3D render line is the 3D render that we saw in the previous movie, and this is set to be a guide layer, meaning…

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