Adobe After Effects 3D Text Rotate Around 3D Sphere Demo

There are no tutorial to be found on the Internet on how to create 3D Text that rotates around a 3D sphere like in the Universal Studios title card. You can apply basic 3D, but it doesn’t have any depth or extrusion. I figured out how to brute-force it, all without third-party plugins! Check it out!

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2 responses to “Adobe After Effects 3D Text Rotate Around 3D Sphere Demo”

  1. DrClue Avatar
    DrClue

    You know , it’s only about 40 lines HTML/CSS combined to make a real 3D sphere. Just use the CSS triangles trick and pseudo selectors to create the two shapes hexagon and pentagon. (Think soccer ball).
    it only takes a single element to make each shape.

    By assembling the pieces in nested strips , about 6 lines of CSS will make them curl right up into a 3D sphere that can even be textured, translucent , and even respond properly to the lighting in a 3D space .

    Making that old universal studios text around the planet is a cakewalk once you get your soccer ball togeather

    1. Chongchen Saelee Avatar

      Sounds like it could be a fun side project. But care to demonstrate? Have a link of proof? I don’t think it’s too efficient to be working in HTML/CSS when it comes to motion graphics, let alone video compositing.