Fake 3D House | After Effects Tutorial

Watch vertically on device 👋In this super-quick After Effects tutorial, I'll cover a really fascinating and fun 2D animation concept: Fake 3D! I've collected a few tips and tricks, making it easy peacy lemon squeezy. Imitating a 3D perspective is a great way to add another layer to your 2D animations. Try it out and let me know how it goes. What do you want to learn next?
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Monty Datta - "Am I Really Living"
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[@giedriusbudrys1138]

Fore people following tutorial - second step: "When making shapes, hold down alt/option to be able to edit them later." Short story to skip this step: When shape tool is active (keyboard shortcut Q) on top bar tick a check box "Bezier Path" and you don't need to worry about this step. Long Story: Idea is when you use a Shape Tool to draw Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Polygon, Star, or Ellipse tool it draws parametric path meaning you can't edit individual points by default. Video author suggests you to hold ALT when using tool to convert parametric path to editable Bezier path automatically as shape is created. Alternatively if you didn't hold ALT and you already created your shape you can still convert it to a Bezier Paths with a Convert To Bezier Path command from the context menu inside that shape.

[@AndersWaltz]

Thanks for this! Always appreciate learning quicker, smarter and better ways to do things.

[@user-tg8tz8ro6b]

Focus on what the tutorial is about ✘ Focus on how the tutorial is designed ✔ really caught my attention ! so aesthetic very well explained Thanks!

[@aliezzartstudio513]

the style of the tutorial on makes it a million times easier pls create more they are very helpful!

[@cenadj]

I m in love with your work mate!! Please dont stop making these tutorials 😭

[@AndersWaltz]

Glad you like them! There'll be more! :D

[@richochet]

Amazing. Love the work bruh!

[@sarahhalawa5926]

where was this channel my whole life! please don't stop making videos this is literally the best tutorials I've ever watched

[@AndersWaltz]

Thank you so much Sarah. I promise I'll make time to do more as soon as I can!

[@virgihimself499]

Fantastic.

[@spandanjoshi2128]

You're brilliant. YT needs more of these non bs tutorials. Keep it up m8!

[@AndersWaltz]

Thank you!!

[@JordanDueck]

Your tutorials are fantastic!!! Simply awesome! Makes me want to spend some more time in Ae!

[@AndersWaltz]

Hey Jordan! That warms my heart. Thanks for reaching out!

[@michelmazzek2493]

Amazing 🔥🔥🔥

[@kantc1017]

The most clear tutorial video I saw! Love it!

[@AndersWaltz]

Glad to hear it! 🙌

[@BARofLUNCH]

I just love the way you made this tutorial. Definitely a pleasure to watch. Thank you :) P.S. your online portfolio is AMAZING! I really like your illustration styles and animation. Based on your interests, you seem like a well-rounded individual. Keep making awesome work and enjoy every moment of it! :D

[@AndersWaltz]

Woooooow did this comment make my sunday! Thank you so much for taking you time to write this. Appreciate everything you said and am happy to hear you liked this tutorial!

[@latenightsoul5503]

AWESOME 😮❤❤

[@mikolajm9175]

Thanks a lot! Amazing form, straightforward and easy to follow. Very good work :)

[@AndersWaltz]

So glad to hear it! 👍👍

[@faidagaston844]

Awesome

[@eliotvaldo8699]

i've never seen tuts like that....you are doing amazing job, thanks very much

[@AndersWaltz]

So glad to hear you like it 👍😁

[@applepie8143]

Dude I love your videos, they are fantastic!!! I can see all of the effort you put into the little things, and it's just so wonderful, amazing job ❤️❤️❤️

[@WeLoveBuzzYT]

Thank you.

[@AndersWaltz]

No worries! Glad to help 👌

[@chanhuynguyen1606]

I love your work. Keep going. I'm always support you

[@AndersWaltz]

Thank you! 🌟

[@vvpedro]

Your tutoriais are the best!

[@AndersWaltz]

Wow thanks!

[@Arinathtgirl]

Awesome video! Stumbled on this while trying to find to make 2D into 3D. I'll try this out. Thank you for the video. Helps alot 😊, have a great day!

[@AndersWaltz]

Fun to hear! Best of luck.

[@eyaluna2008]

My god THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING. 😭👏

[@AndersWaltz]

You're welcome buddy!

[@tbv7447]

Be my teacher! You rocks man...

[@Mackesomething]

Yaaaas saw it on Instagram before, keep posting them here as well :)

[@AndersWaltz]

Awesome! Will do 🙌

[@akhilbaiju]

The Simplest Tutorial I have Ever Seen

[@AndersWaltz]

Waow! Thanks!

[@diagramation]

it was so great.thank you

[@AndersWaltz]

Thanks Negin!

[@shabbyarts]

Sharing this on my page... Loved it...

[@AndersWaltz]

Thanks Shubham!

[@user-qd8rc4qg5k]

It is amazing!

[@AndersWaltz]

Thank youu

[@alinahavhun]

soo cool !

[@AndersWaltz]

Glad to hear it!

[@xandercage2456]

와 여기 쩐다 내가 본 강좌중 역대급으로 간단하면서 깔끔해...

[@AndersWaltz]

감사합니다!!

[@buzz3570]

amazing, thanks a lot

[@AndersWaltz]

My pleasure!

[@kaytoonstudios]

very very interesting awesome!

[@AndersWaltz]

Thanks for the support!

[@BcrossWorkshop]

thank u so much this is nice😉

[@AndersWaltz]

Glad to hear it! What do you want to learn next?

[@pengu1nji630]

cool!

[@AndersWaltz]

Thanks!

[@davecai1164]

How can this guy only have 1k subscribers??? Love your work!

[@AndersWaltz]

Appreciate it! I'll continue 😁

[@mographed4863]

sweeet!, subbed

[@AndersWaltz]

Welcome to the party!

[@hadyanbimo9429]

Cool! Keep going bro :)

[@AndersWaltz]

Thank you!

[@user-ub3hk5bk1z]

very cool

[@AndersWaltz]

Mange tak!

[@zionbandhyo]

Excelente sigue así !!! Saludos desde Peru !

[@AndersWaltz]

Thank you Jack!

[@walterbohm5632]

Loving this series. Very well produced. No excess of info, and the music background is smooth af. Btw, what is Dojo ease? Is that the normal ease u do with F9 key?

[@AndersWaltz]

Thanks a bunch pal! Appreciate this. Dojo Ease is a plugin for easing.

[@NoorNoor-ft3go]

Wow Thank you from jordan🥰

[@AndersWaltz]

Thanks! I've been to Amman, Wadi Rum and Petra! Loved Jordan - cheers from Copenhagen!

[@brenobaere1117]

Thank u so much, @Anders Waltz ! Love your work and tutorials! I have a doubt, but it has nothing to do with the motion part, it's more related to the design itself. How do you make the grain/noise effect on the roof, for example? I'm not able to apply effects to solo components in the shape layer, I can only apply it to the entire shape layer

[@AndersWaltz]

Hey Breno! Thank you so much 🙏 That's a really good question. I've got a PNG image of some texture (Google and find one you like). When imported into AE, I add it on top of the house, give it a blending mode (maybe multiply or overlay) and add a mask to it. The way you do this is hard to explain - but easy to do. Try googling 'trk matte' or masks in after effects and you'll find it easily. Let me know how it goes!

[@carpheart]

cool！

[@AndersWaltz]

Thank you!

[@cm4191]

thank you for the tutorial! But i have a question, what is ctrl/command t? Nothing comes out when I press it

Awesome and visually astonishing tutorial! :) I have one question regarding the post-processing in your piece. I guess the rough edges were achieved with a turbulent displace effect with a high "amoun"t and low "size" value. But how did you achieve this washes out effect on the left edge of the picture on the upper green hill?

[@AndersWaltz]

Hey Kai! You're totally right about the Turbulent Displace. I also added Posterize Time and set it to 12 frames. Sometimes I do 18. I then added textures to all the hills, it's a simple, rough brush stroke. The further away the hill is, the more Gaussian Blur it got. The things in the middle (house, two small bumps etc.) Does that answer your question?

[@jesjusie]

Incrível

[@LARISandCO]

Love this tutorial! Could you possible please share some brief steps about how you animated the hills? Did you use the camera tool?

[@AndersWaltz]

Hey Larissa! Thank you so much. So what I did was... Imagine all these hills are on a plate that spins. The hills that are in the front and back need to more more than the ones that are in the middle of the 'plate'. So when you create your loop, set the positions of the hills in the front and back to first go far to the right, then far to the left. The hills in the middle should go a bit less. And finally the ones inbetween should be - well - inbetween. Am I making sense? If not, try analyzing the animation i did and observe the hills and how they move more or less to the sides the further they are from the middle of the 'plate'.

[@AndersWaltz]

Just to answer your last question: no camera tool is used ☺️

[@Henrique2801xbox]

Awesome, thanks! But How did you create the animation of the drawing process?

[@AndersWaltz]

I love that you're asking for a tutorial on how I made the tutorial 😂 I animated it manually, adding a png of a cursor and drawing it all in After Effects. So yeah. Manually!

[@joelpowley1168]

Where I love how easy this looks when you watch it, when you're in After Effects trying to follow, it's not as detailed as I'd like it to be. Certain actions aren't performing as I would expect. I'll keep studying it but not sure why I can't match what you're doing in this video. I'm interested in seeing more from you though!

[@AndersWaltz]

Sad to hear that buddy. I'll try to be more clear next time :) - Thanks for the honest feedback!

[@joelpowley1168]

@@AndersWaltz It's all good, I eventually figured it out. Your tutorial was a great stepping stone! I just had to dig a bit deeper to get all the know-how. Super thrilled with the result I must say!

[@artgoyle]

Same here, the tutorial doesn't say what buttons to use, I need someone to talk me through :/

[@gabrielnormandroy1018]

Love your tutorials, thank you! Although I cannot seem to get past the first step. Shapes corners are not on top of each others, the circle shape for the window has a different anchor point than the rest which makes step 6 impossible unfortunately.

[@AndersWaltz]

Try using the pen-tool. Whenever you create shapes - ALWAYS - hold down SHIFT to get the option of changing the anchor points later :)

[@gabrielnormandroy1018]

@@AndersWaltz Will try, thank you!

[@AndersWaltz]

@@gabrielnormandroy1018 Spelling mistake from my side! It's not Shift - It's option (Mad) or Alt (Windows).

[@ihorzhuk4949]

like it

[@luketalbot7006]

Dude your stuff is incredible... Could you do a small tutorial on how to morph things? I am looking but can't find anything that simplifies it down! Keep up the awesome work.

[@AndersWaltz]

Hey Luke! Thanks I appreciate that. A morph-tutorial that sounds interesting. Can you give a specific example of what you'd want to morph?

[@luketalbot7006]

@@AndersWaltz Off the top of my head a simple like letter morphing like A-B or lets say one logo to another! I've only started learning AE so I may not be making any sense at all

[@AndersWaltz]

@@luketalbot7006 Don't worry that makes sense. Was just interested in a specific task you'd like to do. Actually, someone else asked me about this a week or two ago. I'll think about a good example of showing this and I'll consider doing a tut on it pal!

[@luketalbot7006]

@@AndersWaltz Thanks dude! You're awesome!

[@AndersWaltz]

@@luketalbot7006 No worries!

[@dotnexdotnex4545]

how to make that grainy effect ??

[@richochet]

Hey Anders great tutorial! Please help. How did you get your house drawing with the pen so precise and aligned in AE!? PS Also spent the last hour or so trying to get CTRL T to work as for some reason AE won't allow me select individual vertex points like you did. I can't scale the house in one direction. :)

[@AndersWaltz]

Hey Alex! Thank you very much. Everything has been designed in Illustrator. I later animated this whole tutorial - even the mouse - in after effects. So the things you see are all shapes and layers, not screen recordings ☺️

[@richochet]

@@AndersWaltz Aha thank you! Lol I spent ages on illustrator wondering 🙈

[@AndersWaltz]

@@richochet Haha 😅

[@tofu1377]

I have a question, when i tried to put my paths in the keyframes I just have 2 paths the rest of my figures doesnt apper as paths or dont have paths at all? What do I do ? :(

[@AndersWaltz]

I think you might have made the shapes for the house (for example the squares) without holding option (Mac) or Alt (Windows). Make sure to hold that down when creating a shape. That way, you get to change the paths. If you don't hold down option / alt, the paths won't show up! :)

[@Marinjr10]

Thx! How to add texture in separate elements?

[@AndersWaltz]

I'm adding the texture on top, then duplicating the shape on top of the texture and using that as a mask (trk matte).

[@mascogni5952]

Can you do a tutorial on texturing? Thanks

[@AndersWaltz]

That's a great idea. I'll consider it.

[@Tangi-balletcore]

Hi, Illustrator - Take Gradiant or grain effect to arter effect and apply "create shape from vector layer" and the effect disappears or breaks, may I know how to fix this? The effect disappears or breaks even if you import it after extending it from Illust.. So I applied the grain effect in After Effect, but it gives me a "Fake 3D" effect and moves, so the texture is not fixed to the "Fake 3D House" and plays separately.. How can we solve this?

[@AndersWaltz]

I see! I usually draw the shapes I need in Adobe Illustrator, and then import that in After Effects. Textures can then be imported seperately into Adobe After Effects. Maybe you could search for some of Ben Mariott's texture tutorials to figure this part out :) Good luck!

[@azeemhashmi8215]

could you tell from which software you got texture in it?

[@AndersWaltz]

Most definitely! It's a simple PNG bought on some stock-website or found as a freebie on google. I'd search for grain texture, brush texture or gritty texture. Try it out! I added it directly in After Effects and masked out the texture + parented it to only be visible on each hill while following the movement.

[@pedramamiri8400]

it would be better if u guide to animate other part of the scene like the hills and camera

[@AndersWaltz]

True! I'll teach you that part later fo sho.

[@miarsco181]

how to make like this noise brush?

[@AndersWaltz]

Download a PNG from Google with the texture you want, then play around with blending modes like Multiply, Color Burn or Overlay. Finally, mask it out in the shape you want and parent it to the shape if it moves. Good luck!

[@aizzatazlan434]

why i cant click ctrl + t? and it become the text

[@AndersWaltz]

I believe ctrl+t is a photoshop command. What do you want to achieve with this command?

[@moonsdonut5188]

only 4 or 5 vidoe's you have on your channel what a shame what a shame please add more

[@AndersWaltz]

I hear your wish and will definitely consider uploading more! Thanks for your comment ;)

[@moonsdonut5188]

@@AndersWaltz 🙂