{"id":42583,"date":"2014-06-30T11:30:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=42583"},"modified":"2014-09-10T12:57:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T16:57:12","slug":"adobe-after-effects-fundamentals-lesson-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/adobe-after-effects-fundamentals-lesson-10\/","title":{"rendered":"After Effects Fundamentals Lesson 10: Lights, Cameras &#038; 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"its-all-about-3d-in-the-final-lesson-of-our-10-part-after-effects-fundamentals-course\">It&#8217;s all about 3D in the final lesson of our 10-part After Effects Fundamentals course.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/pbblogassets\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Lesson-10-Header.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-42586\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Lesson 10 Header\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/pbblogassets\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Lesson-10-Header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>We&#8217;ve arrived at <strong>lesson 10<\/strong>\u00a0of our 10 part Adobe After Effects Fundamentals course.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the last few updates, namely CS5.5 to CS6, <strong>Adobe After Effects has completely changed in the way users work with 3D<\/strong>. Normally users would treat After Effects compositions as though they were layers of paper,<strong> stacked<\/strong> on top of each other, void of any realistic 3D qualities.<\/p>\n<p>However, the current version of After Effects provides much more than this&#8230;gone are the days of using the <strong>shatter effect<\/strong> to simulate 3D. In fact, there are multiple ways you can create awesome 3D models and in today&#8217;s AE Fundamentals Lesson we will learn them all. The lesson covers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>3D Fundamentals in After Effects<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lights<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cameras<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cinema 4D LITE<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ray-Traced Renderer<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><em>Want to learn more about 3D modeling? Check out the <a title=\"Cinema 4D\" href=\"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?s=Cinema+4D\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Cinema 4D section<\/a> of our blog.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/99538725\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was the final installment of our 10-part <strong>Adobe After Effects Fundamentals Course.<\/strong> Hopefully you now feel ready to begin designing and compositing in Adobe After Effects. If you want to learn more techniques, explore more\u00a0<a title=\"After Effects\" href=\"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/category\/after-effects\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">After Effects tutorials<\/a>\u00a0here on the Premiumbeat blog, read the latest\u00a0<a title=\"The Beat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">filmmaking news<\/a>,\u00a0and pick up some post-production tricks!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Having trouble tracking in After Effects? Have any questions? Have you enjoyed this course?<\/strong>\u00a0Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the final installment of our 10 part Adobe After Effects Fundamentals course we learn all about 3D, Cameras, Lights, and using Cinema 4D LITE in After \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":42589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,79,3291,21,39,92],"tags":[284,98,5384,1685,55,664,2995],"class_list":["post-class-post-42583","post-class-post","post-class-type-post","post-class-status-publish","post-class-format-standard","post-class-has-post-thumbnail","post-class-hentry","post-class-category-after-effects","post-class-category-inspiration","post-class-category-motion-graphics-2","post-class-category-tutorials","post-class-category-video-editing","post-class-category-video-tutorials-2","post-class-tag-3d","post-class-tag-cameras","post-class-tag-cinema-4d","post-class-tag-cineware","post-class-tag-effects","post-class-tag-lights","post-class-tag-mikey-bo"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v21.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>After Effects Fundamentals Lesson 10: Lights, Cameras &amp; 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