3D Cube in After Effects
Motion Design School has a great trick for creating a 3D Cube in After Effects using Shape layers and the Stroke effect. If you’re new to After Effects, this covers some important basics that you may not be familiar with, like Precompose and Collapse Transformations. It’s so simple and fast, that you’ll find yourself using this technique often.
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Isomatic FX
Finally, isometric graphics made easy within After Effects
This famous kind of perspective, recognizable by its absence of vanishing point (lines appear parallel to each other), can be seen almost everywhere. Even if you think it’s just one more trendy style, you might be right, but, as a motion designer, you just can’t ignore this pretty stylish and efficient style! Okay but… How could you achieve this “isometric” look within your favorite animation software ?
mograph.tools WIR3D
Super simple 3D shapes
With mograph.tools WIR3D, you can create 3D wireframe shapes from a single shape layer in After Effects, in just a few clicks.
Volume n' Tricks
Design from new perspectives and amaze yourself
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