Making 3D Text in After Effects

I have recently been on hiatus trying to find a new job and haven’t had an internet connection to blog lately.  So I’m sitting here in a Panera Bread Company using their free Wifi.  Lovely…

So this post is going to be geared around asking a question that I’ve had for After Effects for quite awhile.  How do you make 3d text in Adobe After Effects.  Making 3d text has always been something that I’ve always wanted to do.  So I set out to find out how to do it.  There are some free resources here that answer this question so hopefully you can use it.

As a side note there are free ways and paid ways to do it.  There is the “old school” free way of doing it.  Adobe has a tutorial video on the subject.  Click here to view the tutorial.

Here is a tutorial from Creative Cow on making a true, 3d environment in After Effects.  Really cool to watch.

There is also one of the famous plugins called, “3D Invigorator.”  That does the same thing, but it costs some money.  Click here to check out the vender website for 3d Invigorator. Zaxwerks has some cool plugins.  But this is the easiest way to achieve 3d.

So it pretty well possible to not have to learn 3D Max just yet.  Maybe After Effects can be your one stop shop for your 3d compositing needs.  Just have a good video card or rendering will take all night.  :)