Hey there.
In this video we're going to look at fake 3D.
So fake 3D is a way to make your objects appear like they are in 3D without actually being in 3D.
Okay, so we achieve fake 3D by basically adjusting the parts of our shapes at different points in time.
Okay, so let's go ahead and look at how to achieve a very simple fake 3D very quickly.
So go ahead and create a new composition.
Name this fake 3D.
And basic or basics and hit okay.
And now I want to just go ahead and create a shape a rectangle.
So hold down shift and create a perfect square.
And I'll do Ctrl Alt Home key and Ctrl Home key to align my anchor point to the middle of my shape and
align my shape to the middle of my composition.
Okay.
And the next thing I'm going to do is just Ctrl R to bring up my ruler.
And I want to create some ruler guides.
I want to click and drag and come and create these ruler guides.
Just follow as I do.
Okay, so your ruler guide should look like this.
On the left hand side and right hand side of our ship, and also on the top and bottom of our ships
of our ship.
Just like I'm doing right here.
Okay, so create your guides to look like this.
And the next thing I'll do is select my ship noun and then go into my rectangle options and open my
stroke.
And for my line cup I will choose the round cup.
And also for my line joint I'll choose the round joint.
Close this and select my rectangle one.
Right click on it and convert to bezier paths.
Okay, so we now have paths instead of a ship and I can now animate my paths.
Right?
Okay.
Yeah.
So the next thing I'll do is just ctrl d on my layer and create a duplicate.
And I'll select the both of them and just type paths so that we have our paths options exposed for all
our layers.
And then next thing I'll do is create my first keyframes here.
So click here to create our first keyframes.
And then come to one second in time okay one second and then create some new keyframes okay.
Just repeat the keyframes so that we have everything looking good.
Perfect.
Now the next thing I'll do is come here.
And right here I want to select my first layer okay.
And then take my pen tool.
Click here and click here to select these two points and bring them to the left hand side okay.
Align to this line like this.
So that's the first step you need to do.
Now.
The second step will be to select this point, okay.
And take it up.
Just hold down shift to do this in a straight line okay.
Take it up at this point.
Bring it down.
Okay.
And then go back and select these points which we edited initially and move them to the left hand side
aligning them to this line okay.
While holding down shift of course.
And you can zoom in and use your arrow keys to just push them forward to align them to the line.
Perfect.
So I'm using my left arrow key and my shift to move my line.
Perfect.
Now that's the first thing you have to do on this keyframe okay?
On this time.
Okay.
At this time, then come to the first time and you want to select your layer one shape layer one, and
do the opposite.
So for the opposite we're going to take our pen tool, select our layer one and click on these points
okay.
And bring this to the right hand side while holding down shift.
Zoom in and align them to our line.
Of course.
Okay.
And then do the same thing we did for our previous shape, only that we are doing the opposite.
Perfect.
And then select this one and select this one and bring it.
And just zoom in and hold down shift and move this to the left hand side to align this better.
So what I'll do.
Perfect.
So everything is aligned to my line.
And now when we play this we're going to see that we are now achieving a cube like animation.
Okay.
And we don't have any 3D here.
In fact, our layers have not been turned to 3D.
But just by animating our paths we are creating the illusion of 3D.
So this is what is known as fake 3D.
Next thing I want to do is come to the middle of my composition to 15 frames, because my composition
is 30 frames per second.
And then I want to select these points.
Okay, this point here and just move them up and down.
Same with the points for this layer.
Just click and select and move them up.
Just zoom in and reposition.
Everything better.
Perfect.
And do the same thing with this guy.
Perfect.
Now when we play we're going to see that by doing this we have improved our perspective.
Okay perfect.
So that's the first thing you want to do.
Now the next thing I'm going to do is try to recreate this for the vertical or the y axis.
Okay.
What I will do is come here select this layer and control shift D to cut it at this point and delete
the excess.
And I'll select this one and Ctrl D to duplicate this and bring my third layer or my duplicate just
under.
And I'll select this guy and Ctrl shift D to cut it.
At this point select this guy and delete so that we're working with this one.
Okay.
And I'll select this guy.
Come here and hit enter to expose my paths properties.
Okay.
So that we now have these two to work with for this part of the admission.
Okay.
Then I'll come to my two second zoom in, come to two seconds and just create new keyframes for these
two layers.
So click here and click here to create two new keyframes.
Perfect.
Now all we need to do is do the same thing we did for this two layers but vertically this time.
Okay.
So I just want to come here to the last frame.
Select this guy.
Take my pen tool click here and click here.
Zoom in and move these points up okay.
Align them to this line.
Just like this.
And select this point.
Move it to the left hand side while holding down shift.
Do the same thing with this one.
Move to the right hand side while holding down shift.
And then select this guy and this guy.
Move them up while holding down shift.
Now just zoom in and do shift and up arrow key to move this and make it aligned to this line.
Perfect.
And then all I need to do is to come to the first guy here, select this layer and do the opposite.
So click here and click here and move this to the down side.
Zoom in align it to my line.
Click here.
Move it to the left hand side.
Okay.
I just I'll just take my pen tool, click here, move it to the left hand side while holding down shift.
Click here.
Move it to the right hand side while holding down shift and then click this.
Click this and move them down.
And align them to my line.
Maybe use my arrow key to align them better.
Perfect.
And yeah.
Now let's play this and see.
Now you see, uh, all I need to do now is just come to two seconds and maybe two seconds on one frame.
So I'll just do Ctrl and right arrow key to go one frame, and I'll just hit N on my keyboard to trim
my comp to work area and trim comp to work area.
Okay.
And now I'll just play this and we have our animation plane in a loop.
Okay, maybe I'll trim the comp to work area from here.
Trim comp to work area?
Yeah, but we actually need to come to 15 frames.
That's here, the middle here.
And then just do the same thing we did here.
Okay.
Let's take our pen tool click here.
Move it to the right hand side.
Click here.
Move it to the left hand side just to make our perspective look better.
Okay.
Zoom in and align this to this and this to this.
Perfect.
Now all I need to do is play.
And we have our animation horizontal and vertical cube animation happening seamlessly without really
having to create any 3D layer.
So I can just delete my ruler guides.
And it can even add colors.
So you give this a fill color.
Give this a different color.
And give this a different color.
Maybe red.
Yeah.
Now let's play and see what we've got.
And of course, if we want we could make this faster to squash our keyframes.
Could easy ease our keyframes F9.
You can do a whole lot of things and have different effects.
You see, by easing our keyframes we now have this effect, right.
We can go into our graph editor.
We'll select all our keyframes.
Maybe Do this and we get a different effect.
And do this and get a different effect.
Yeah.
So that's Fig. 3D for you.
The limit is basically your imagination.
Okay I think I'll just use a normal easy ease for this.
And I'll do Ctrl s to save this and fake 3D.
Basics and save.
Yeah.
And that's basically it for fake 3D.
For an introduction to fake 3D.
Fake 3D can go way crazier than this.
We can use that for facial rigging, for character rigging, in fact crazy things.
Okay, the list goes on and on and on and on.
And we're going to look at more advanced methods of fake 3D in further lessons.
So see you in the next one.
Bye bye.