New After Effects CS3 Video Tutorial!

Hey gang,

I've created a new tutorial for After Effects CS3, and I'm trying out a new video format. There are still some issues with the frame rate, and I didn't have my sound set up quite right, but what the hey...

Let me know if you like the format.

About the tutorial - one of the things that struck me when I was studying for my After Effects CS3 certification exam, was that you always had to rely on 3D applications to create 3D text and shapes. I mean, AE CS3 is a 3D app in that you can work in z-space, but creating a 3D object without building each of the sides and modeling it in z-space (which is a massive pain) just isn't really possible.

Well, here's a little trick to create some 3D text in After Effects.

Click here to watch @ Russfairley.com/tutorials.html

Note: I can't take all of the credit for this trick - I learned a few different techniques from Adobe guru Chad Perkins, and combined them to achieve this effect, so thanks, Chad.

If you like this effect, look around on the Internet - plenty of people have gotten creative with AE's amazing "Shatter" effect.

Talk soon!

- Russ