3D extruded text with strokes on extrusion edges

[helenat20942768]

Hello! I came across this post by Mat Voyce on Dribbble and was wondering if anyone has some insight on how he could have done this on AE. When you color the extrusion sides, you can't have strokes on the edges like he does in this example. I assume it must be a combination of effecs and compositions with different settings, but I couldn't figure it out. Any ideas?

https://dribbble.com/shots/17070000-ALIVE

[Rick Gerard]

You can extrude shape layers. Select your Text layer and go to Layer/Create/Shapes from Text. Fiddle a bit, and you can get this in about two or three minutes. The top copy has the stroke turned off, additional extrusion, and an anchr point shift.

[helenat20942768]

I'm not sure if I was clear, but the part that I can't figure out are the strokes, the cartoon effect that the letters have. In your example there are no strokes around the letters and on the edge of the extrusion.

[helenat20942768 · Accepted solution]

For anyone hoping to do this, I found this amazing tutorial that helped me a lot!
}https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEO4GAGhXNo&t=933s

[Rick Gerard]

I started with a text layer with strokes, converted the text layer to a shape layer, duplicated the shape layer, turned off the fill on the top copy, turned off the stroke on the bottom copy, then extruded the text and stroke differently. Since extrusions happen from the front to the back, I had to move the anchor point of the fill layer.  You just didn't look at the project closely enough. 

I did not explain or try to show you how to do the cartoon effect because that is an entirely different problem. 

The tutorial you posted is a fair workflow, but it does not answer the original question. How do you extrude a text layer with a different colored stroke? There are also more efficient ways to tie lights to different layer sides and keep them properly lined up with the layers so the light does not spill onto other surfaces.  

[helenat20942768]

Hello Rick! That's what I meant when I said I wasn't clear! I was trying to figure out how to do this lines here indicated in the picture: That's why I said there are no strokes on the edges on your example, but maybe I didn't see that. Anyway, if you could share this method for tying lights to layer sides I would appreciate as well!
THank you a lot