Extrude?????

[bohunkljh]

Using After Effects, Is there a way to extrude an object to give it a more 3D appearence? For instance I used the basic 3D effect to achieve the look of coins fliping into and out of my composition. I would like to make them appear thicker when looking at them on edge. Can any one help?:)

[Todd_Kopriva]

One way that people create extruded text and shapes in After Effects is to use the Shatter effect. Another method involves duplicating a layer many times and spacing the duplicates such that they appear to form a solid 3D shape. There's a link to a tutorial that describes these methods in the "Shatter effect" (http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a9d3c597-7a8d.html) section of After Effects CS3 Help on the Web.

You can also use additional plug-ins like Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator to make extruded shapes and text. You can check a site like Toolfarm (http://toolfarm.com/) for such additional plug-ins.

For more information, try searching using the new After Effects Community Help search (http://community.adobe.com/help/search.html?q=extrusions&lbl=aftereffects_product_adobelr) on the Adobe website.

[bohunkljh]

Everytime I try to use the methods in the tutorials after effects crashes. What Do I do about that?:(

[Todd_Kopriva]

Everytime I try to use the methods in the tutorials after effects crashes. What Do I do about that?:(

You can contact Adobe Technical Support for help with issues like this. You are entitled to a certain number of free calls for "installation issues, basic usage questions, and troubleshooting unexpected behavior for documented features".

For information on what free technical support you're entitled to, see this page:

http://www.adobe.com/support/programs/customer/gss.html