Chapter 12. Using 3D Features

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Animate 3D objects.

• Add reflections to 3D objects.

• Use an adjustment layer to blur multiple layers.

• Animate a camera layer.

• Create and position light layers.

• Add a Linear Wipe effect to reveal objects in the composition.

This lesson will take approximately an hour to complete. Copy the Lesson12 folder into the Lessons folder that you created on your hard drive for these projects (or create it now), if you haven’t already done so. As you work on this lesson, you’ll preserve the start files. If you need to restore the start files, copy them from the Adobe After Effects CS5 Classroom in a Book DVD.

In Lesson 11, you created 3D objects ...

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