Cylinder Template/Tutorial?

[lidiajulia93]

Okay, so I know the VERY basics of After Effects.

So I have 4 images of one product (it's a tumbler) with a wrap around print. What I want to do is take all these different "angles" and turn it into a spin motion. So that it can look like the cup is slowly spinning/turning showing off the print. It's a front shot, left side, back, and right side shot. Exact same placement and lighting for all of the images, just a different view/position of the product.

With that being said, is there a tutorial or template somewhere that I could accomplish this?

Thank you in advance!

[Mylenium]

There is no magic way to turn photos into actual 3D geometry, so you can forget about "slow spinning" or whatever. At best you can use the four images as sides of an imaginary spinning cube and build an animation out of that. Enough tutorials on that one out there. Short version: Arrange the images in a pre-comp - use pre-compo in main comp with collapsed transformations - animate spin - done.

Mylenium

[dj.summitt]

Yea, there's no way to do that with what you have. If you had many many many more photos you create a 3d scan of the piece and take it in to a 3d program like Cinema4D but that's much more involved.

You could try something along these lines:

How to Create a 2.5D (fake 3D) Parallax Effect in After Effects - TUTORIAL - YouTube