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Show 2D art in 3D top view

Show 2D art in 3D top view - Storyboard Pro Tutorial

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Show 2D art in 3D top view

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- [Instructor] I love creating 3D camera moves in Storyboard Pro and I often combine 3D objects like this flying pickup truck and my 2D drawings into these 3D scenes. But it can be hard to see where my 2D art is in the top view when I try to position the art. So I've got a great little trick. So first thing we need to do whenever you're working in 3D, you need your top and your side views. Let's just open the top view for right now. Cause it works the same in either. And I'm going to select my layer here, right? So here's the layer of my 2D art, pull my top view back. And I can't see my 2D artwork. There's a little line right there, that pink line. But that can be very hard to tell exactly what's going on. And if you're in a wide shot you're often not going to be able to see where one of those lines are. To make it easy, this is what I do. I just slightly rotate my 2D art. And notice I can still see fine in my…

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