eHow launches Android app: Get the best of eHow on the go.
Summary: Add a new dimension to your 2-D file in After Effects. Learn how to convert files into three-dimensional mode using Adobe After Effects software in this free video editing tutorial from a film production professor.
John Carstarphen is an experienced independent filmmaker, screenwriter, animator and teacher. His work as a writer/director has been seen in international film festivals including...read more
"Now the trees are currently behind the building so there is no need to move these at this point really because we can do that with 3D layers. So let's convert all of these layers to 3D layers and we do that simply by clicking on the switches here which converts a layer to 3D, and now these are 3D layers and as such they can receive light and they can move in and out of 3D space. I'm going to add one more object to this scene and that is a model, a bald model, but a model of a woman looking through a microscope and we're going to put her in the foreground and we will make her a 3D layer as well. Now what I'd like to do is move the trees to the very front of the image, move the trees to the foreground, and they will be, actually they won't be trees, we will see them more as plants. In the scene she's looking through a microscope we're shooting her from behind some plants. The camera will move through the plants, past her, to the window showing the building outside. So we're going to do a straight forward dolly through the scene past this woman."
eHow Article: Converting Files to 3-D in Adobe After Effects