Tutorial: How to make spectacular 3D text?

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Wed, 06/16/2010 - 07:09

alain

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On this tutorial I will explain you how to create impressive 3D text effects for your presentation titles in a few steps.

Here follows a movie viewing the effects of this tutorial:

Metallic text

No real tricks on this effect. Choose Shiny Metal as Material for the text. I put a X angle of 20 on the top text to give it a nice perspective effect.

I use Turn and zoom (2) as Start Effect for both texts.

Black Foggy 3D effect

For this effect, I rotated a little bit the text and I set the following parameters:

X Angle:40
Y Angle:20
Start Effect:From Right (1)
End Effect:To Left (1)
Animation:Foggy
Material:Plain Color

Wireframe text

To create Wireframe effect (as on the old science fiction movies), just set Material as Wireframe.

Top/Bottom text

This effect displays side texts sliding from top to bottom and from bottom to top.
First I rotated by 90° the texts on the slide, then I choose the following properties:

X Angle:0
Y Angle:90 and 270
Start Effect:From Left (1)
End Effect:To Right (1)
Animation:None
Material:Concrete

Tunnel text

This text effect is nice with the Tunnel background effect.

I used the following parameters:

X Angle:45
Y Angle:90 and 270
Start Effect:From Right (1)
End Effect:To Left(1)
Animation:Rotation on X axis (2)
Material:Rust (1)

Falling text

This effect simulate one text falling on another one. The trick is to place precisely the second text on the slide, so it will be perfectly on top of the other text.

I used the following parameters:

X Angle:0
Y Angle:45 for top text and 20 for the other
Start Effect:From Top (3)
End Effect:None
Animation:None
Material:Plain Color

Download the project file

The project file for this tutorial is available here: Tutorial 3D text project file

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