Create3DShapes

Creates a 3D box, a 3D sphere, a 3D cylinder, a 3D pyramid, a 3D menger sponge and even 3D falling dominoes with user-defined layers.

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Create3DShapes

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This is a package of 6 scripts:

Create3DBox.jsx – Watch demo video
Create3DSphere.jsx – Watch demo video
Create3DCylinder.jsx – Watch demo video
Create3DPyramid.jsx – Watch demo video
Create3DMengerSponge.jsx – Watch demo video
Create3DFallingDominoes.jsx – Watch demo video

They create the 3D shape using user-defined comp layers. Assign a layer to each side, and the script will position and scale them to build a the shape of given size. Note that the same layer can be used for multiple sides. An option allows to parent each side layer to a Null 3D positioned at the center of the shape.

Version History:

Create3DSphere v3.0 (Feb 2010)
- Allows to distribute layers on sphere or ellipsoid (e.g. rugby ball, with controllable x,y,z-radius)
- Gain in speed using precomputed arrangements
- Can create giant sphere with up to 1000 layers, in couple of seconds
Create3DSphere v2.5 – Initial version on aescripts.com (Jun 2009)
Create3DBox v2.5 – Initial version on aescripts.com (Jun 2009)
Create3DCylinder v2.5 – Initial version on aescripts.com (Jun 2009)
Create3DFallingDominoes v1.5 – Initial version on aescripts.com (Jun 2009)
Create3DMengerSponge v2.5 – Initial version on aescripts.com (Jun 2009)
Create3DPyramid v2.0 – Initial version on aescripts.com (Jun 2009)

Last updated February 7th, 2010
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Tags: 3D, Automatic, Box, Create, CS3, CS4, Cylinder, Dominoes, Featured, Layers, Menger Sponge, Pyramid, Sphere

Charles Bordenave

About the author

My name is Charles Bordenave and I am currently located in France. I started working with After Effects in 2005, when I was a PhD student in computer science at Montreal. My interest quickly converged to expressions and scripting. Nowadays I'm regularly hired on a freelance basis by production studios focussed on tv broadcast, cartoon animation, motion graphics or cinema. My job usually consists of developing customized automation tools for After Effects.

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7 Comments

Phil Spitler (Reply to this comment)
August 3, 2009

The demo video is for the batch processing script, not the 3d object script.
- Lloyd (Reply to this comment)
  October 28, 2009
  
  Thanks for pointing that out, link has been fixed
Dale Hayward (Reply to this comment)
November 23, 2009

the demo video doesn’t seem to work, is it just me? i’d love to see this in action, thanks!
- Lloyd Alvarez (Reply to this comment)
  November 23, 2009
  
  Pesky videos. Should be fixed now, thanks for catching it. The demo video button has all 6 demo movies edited together and I also added each individual demo next to the script name above.
Dale Hayward (Reply to this comment)
November 26, 2009

awesome, the movie with all of the together, gets glitchy in the middle, but the individual ones work great. Oh & these scripts are amazing! huge huge time saver for me, thanks a ton
Erik Waluska (Reply to this comment)
December 24, 2009

FYI – There doesn’t appear to be any audio except for music with the dominos video at the end , which is really loud. Also, the tutorial video freezes at 3 minutes and then resumes at 4 minutes.
- Dom Amatore (Reply to this comment)
  February 4, 2010
  
  Anyway to ’squash’ the sphere into an oval shape, using the expression in the controller?
  
  I’m assuming it’s in adding a second slider and calculating the vertical radius somehow?
  
  Thanks, awesome script

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