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Yes, ButtCapper has a silly name, but if you work heavily with strokes in AE youll really enjoy how much less of.

After years of pointless clicking through shape layer properties and endless nesting, we had enough. To clarify, I renamed this layer in my example “3D scene. The lack of a simple way to change Stroke Caps and Joins in After Effects (similar to Illustrator) doesnt make a lot of sense. This layer will be used for the 3D Element plugin. Beam me up, therefore, as it sounded after a Trekkie effect. If you are able to get your hands on Element 3D, set up your file properly, by creating a background solid color (or any background you choose), and another solid color layer. Unfortunately, 3D Stroke get out but no real Tife, synonymous when camera is activated. You can find more about them and their products at Step 1 – Getting Started Not only do they make 3D plugins, but they have collections of effects and visuals for use in your After Effects projects, as well as tutorials. The drawback is that in order to do this in After Effects, you need to use Element 3D.Įlement 3D is a plugin for After Effects that allows you to import and use 3D OBJ files in After Effects. 4 GB of RAM (16-32 GB of RAM recommended) 850 MB of Hard Drive space. The advantage to this is that you can move a camera around and get dynamic angles without using multiple files. macOS (M1/M2 CPU): macOS 11, 12, 13 and later. Check out this simple technique for creating inner and outer strokes for your shapes elements in Adobe After Effects.

I was recently working on a project that required an outline of an object to be animated in Adobe After Effects, but instead of using an image, I decided to use an existing 3D object (an OBJ file) to create a dynamic outline. For this blog post I thought I’d try my hand at a simple tutorial.