Creating 3D text

With the grid in place, you’re ready to create the text. You’ll type the words first, and then convert the layer to a 3D layer.

1 Select the Horizontal Type tool () in the Tools panel. After Effects opens the Character and Paragraph panels.

2 In the Character panel, do the following:

􀁴 Choose Myriad Pro for the font family.

􀁴 Choose Bold for the font style.

􀁴 Select white for the text color.

􀁴 Set the stroke color to none.

􀁴 Change the font size to 120 pixels.

3 In the Paragraph panel, select the Center Text alignment option.

4 Click anywhere in the Composition panel, in either view, and type AECS5. Then click an empty area of the Timeline panel to deactivate the Horizontal Type tool.

5 Select the 3D Layer switch () for the AECS5 layer.

6 With the AECS5 layer selected in the Timeline panel, press P to reveal its Position property.

7 Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the Position property name, and choose Reset from the context menu. The text moves to the center of the grid.

_ Note: This technique gives you the effect of extrusion in some views, but may not provide good results when you rotate the text at some angles. For true extruded text, use Adobe Photoshop Extended.

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