Hi, I have a 3D object in the shape of a "question mark". I want to know how to animate it so it looks like it's drawing itself? In the picture I have attached hopefully you can see how I want it to be animated.
I am familiar with how to do this type of effect in 2D i.e the same way how you would make a handwriting effect. But I cannot find a way to make a 3D object draw/reveal itself.
Hopefully someone can help. Thanks, Ben.
If you need full 3D control and texturing etc, than the advice above is spot on.
But if your requirements are less complex, it's good to remember that AE does plenty of 3D stuff on its own. You can create fake 3D extrusions of any AE layer, like text and shape layers, which allows you to animate with all the usual AE tools.
The image below is a question mark that is "drawn" off with the stroke tool on a matte layer. It's then extruded by adding multiple layers positioned one pixel apart to create depth, and lit with standard AE lighting tools. This took about 5 minutes to create, and 3 minutes to render.
Just an alternative process if you want to do something simple.
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