2/13 Investigation

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This week I did my investigation on 3D objects in animations. 3D models are used for a variety of mediums including video games, movies, architecture, illustration, engineering, and commercial advertising. In my case, I am using 3D objects for a video game-inspired video. By using 3D shapes, I am able to recreate a scene taken from the game Five Nights at Freddy's as shown below:





Since After Effects does not have premade 3D objects like Blender, everything was made from connecting faces and sides of a solid. 

When creating this office scene, I ran into an issue with trying to make the telephone into a 3D object because it wasn't something with square-straight edges where I could easily connect the side faces together. I went on youtube to find a resolution for this problem and came across a video where a person created a 3D logo in after effects.


After watching this video, I decided that I was not going to use the tutorial because the duplicated layers made my computer laggy and it would probably extend the render time by a lot when I am ready to export my video. As a result, I came up with an alternative solution where I would stack only a few layers on top of each other to create a 3D effect.



This is what the stacking of layers looks like from above.


This is what it looks like in the office scene.

I also came across another video tutorial where the person in the video turned a 2D shape into a 3D, which I will most likely use later on. 




Work Log:

Monday: worked in after effects

Tuesday: worked in after effects

Wednesday: worked in after effects

Thursday: worked in after effects

Friday: worked in after effects

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