Animating a Fake 3D Box in After Effects

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[@dixieechann]

this is such a systematic and clear tutorial--the best faux 3d tutorial I've watched so far, esp with drawing the circular motion path. Looking forward to more!

[@lopsangdlama]

what a clever use of "creative nulls from paths".....loved the tutorial. Thanks!!!!

[@OliverRandorff]

Appreciate it’

[@reactivefilms8614]

You are amazing!! Thx a lot for your work!

[@OliverRandorff]

You are very welcome!

[@MotionGraphicsRedaGomaa]

good work oliver

[@bambina5604]

Your tutorials are amazing!!!

[@OliverRandorff]

Thanks!

[@virendraraval3610]

What an amazing use of create null tool. 😄😍😍 Thank you so much 😀

[@OliverRandorff]

Glad that you found it useful! :)

[@maheshjanitha]

Yeyyy. Thank you Oliver. Waited for this 😍🔥

[@OliverRandorff]

That's awesome - hope it was worth the wait! :)

[@maheshjanitha]

@@OliverRandorff No doubt about it ❤️

[@FLIMLIONVisualFX]

I really loved your all tutorial's ❤️

[@OliverRandorff]

That’s awesome to hear!

[@vesto6864]

FLIMLION, I can't wait to see your new tutorial

[@mdaffadewantara5475]

its great to see another tutorial from you, always find a new things to me. tbh if i didnt watch your tutorial i really just flip the path manually without using null 😅

[@OliverRandorff]

That would probably be the standard go-to 🙌

[@gabrielfranco4991]

Hi.Great tutorial. Good that you are back with more tutorials. By the way I took your course on "text animation ..." it is excellent and you explain step by step. Hopefully and do another course soon. Bye.

[@OliverRandorff]

Thank you! Just uploaded one today that you can check out 🙌

[@dwadeworkx1644]

Recently stared following you Instagram and I love your videos. Great tutorial and tha k you.

[@OliverRandorff]

Thanks for the support!

[@PalomaMcClain]

When I paste the circle path keyframe into the null's position, it completely changes the position and size of the path...

[@user-vz4vt9fn3b]

Amazing！

[@OliverRandorff]

Thank you!

[@mographed4863]

this litt man! thank youu

[@OliverRandorff]

That’s so kind of you. Appreciate it!

[@mographed4863]

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[@jobz9150]

Can you also make a tutorial on how to animate string untying? As in, imagine if we had to animate a string being untied before the box opened.

[@Yatre12]

I had some trouble with the nulls positions after hitting "points follow nulls" but it finally worked ! Thanks for the tutorial :)

[@OliverRandorff]

Heard that a few times - but glad you figured it out!

[@MotionGraphicsRedaGomaa]

yes its make error When changing the points specified for closed mask and shape path

[@OliverRandorff]

@@MotionGraphicsRedaGomaa what error? I don’t think he had a problem with an error

[@MotionGraphicsRedaGomaa]

@@OliverRandorff Certainly nothing is wrong if the lesson is well applied

[@sohastar4206]

great.

[@nahalnosrati]

so helpfull

[@Victor-zg1wn]

Cool

[@futuritzy-2317]

I watched the tutorial on skillshare and it was awesome. I am still confused on why my nulls are in the wrong place, i have spent hours trying to fix it but no use. Could you help?

[@OliverRandorff]

There should be a note at that exact time in the video where the nulls are created - telling you how to fix it. Hope that will help you out

[@futuritzy-2317]

@@OliverRandorff ok thankyou

[@cherylscott8556]

@@futuritzy-2317 I couldn't see the note in the video. Here is what I did: Layer>Contents>Group 1>Transform:Group 1 > Position ---> reset this position to 0,0 Layer>Transform>Position ---> use this property to fix the position of the layer. Then select the path and create the nulls.

[@vesto6864]

Nice tutorial 👍👍👍 create null for path is it a free plug in?

[@OliverRandorff]

It's built into After Effects :)

[@vesto6864]

@@OliverRandorff Thanks

[@EggHernandez96]

When I add the create nulls from paths, the paths are not positioned in the corners of my shapes, it's in the middle part what's wrong :(

[@OliverRandorff]

try to zero out the position of the shape itself within the shape layer - that should work.

[@EggHernandez96]

@@OliverRandorff Okay okay i will try. Thanks btw great tutorial!

[@OliverRandorff]

@Melody Okpara that's really all there is to it - within the shape itself, it has its own position coordinates. You need to zero these out, and they are not to be confused with the position coordinates of the layer itself.

[@bonesbeast7792]

@Melody Okpara same proplem did u find any solution??

[@bastman-_-2963]

thx man but you skipped so so quickly the last null object and i struggled a lot to find the position

[@Crimea-Vera]

why "closed" is not activated ? AE 2019 But I drew the shape)) Great lesson thanks

[@OliverRandorff]

Not sure - glad you enjoyed it though

[@Crimea-Vera]

@@OliverRandorff I've understood!!!

[@cherylscott8556]

This happened to me. I had to make sure I right clicked the path, not a point.

[@gotfuckedby.12k_skullz10]

nogen der er her fra trierne?

[@darshansolanki4318]

yo bro

[@OliverRandorff]

🙌🙌