Finally, our prayers have been answered! A cartoon effect! Woo Hoo!
(is th sarcasm translating?) Honestly though, there are some really cool new features in the new version. Check it out...
Re: cs4 by Brendan Coots on Sep 24, 2008 at 4:08:12 pm
I love it when software companies bundle useful third party effects/applications as value-added freebies. When Apple added Color to Final Cut Studio for free, that saved a lot of people $25,000. While Mocha is only $150 or so, that's still a nice little addition, just like Keylight was.
Re: cs4 - now seriously, still no text extrusion? by Martti Ekstrand on Sep 24, 2008 at 4:25:57 pm
I don't need no fancy texture mapping, reflections or shiny bevels - just a 'Extrude Text' radio button, a Z dimension slider and front and side colour settings in the text layer paired either with a simple built-in side shadow and/or affected by layer lights. Just to give texts a bit of dimension. How hard can it be? Seriously.
The axis break-up of position keyframes is a very welcome function. Gonna remove my current crazy null layer set-ups.
Re: cs4 - now seriously, still no text extrusion? by Will Salley on Sep 24, 2008 at 8:46:36 pm
I wonder if it's a sluggish as CS3?
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Re: cs4 - now seriously, still no text extrusion? by Matthew Woods on Sep 26, 2008 at 5:28:26 pm
It sounds like you might be able to do this in Photoshop, save as a 3d layer then bring into After Effects. When talking about its 3d functions, Photoshop CS4 claims to be able to "add depth" to layers and text. I assume/hope that means an extrude function but haven't seen a demo of it.
Re: cs4 - now seriously, still no text extrusion? by Martti Ekstrand on Sep 27, 2008 at 9:39:47 am
I know and have utilized all the tricks around to do text extrusion in AE but all are pretty cumbersome when dealing with lots of texts, hence my frustration ...
Actually way back when Boris had a simple text extrusion tool in the Continuum plug-in set which was very handy when dealing with many text layers that sit-in clients want to re-write in an instant. Unfortunately it doesn't work in OSX or I'd be still using it.
