Again this After Effects Tutorial jam-packed with useful techniques that I first had a bunch of alternative titles:
▪ How to Auto-Orient the Card Dance Effect towards the Camera
▪ Use the Card Dance Effect like Cinema 4D's Mograph
▪ Create flying Fake 3D Spheres with Shape Layers
▪ How to 3D Track the Card Dance Effect into Video
▪ How to 3D Track blurry Video with Slow Shutter
Well, the final title that made it is a mix of 2 of them.
Anyways.......I hope you find my After Effects tips useful for your own projects.
-------Here's Dan Ebbert's Auto-Orientation Script-------
C = thisComp.activeCamera;
V = C.toWorldVec([0,0,1]);
P = toWorld(anchorPoint);
lookAt(P, P + V);
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0:00 Intro
0:46 3D Camera Tracker
1:32 Create a Grid of Fake Particles
1:57 Create a Fake 3D Sphere
3:56 3D Track Card Dance Effect into Video
4:45 Get Card Dance Effect into Z-Space
6:13 Auto-Orient Card Dance Effect towards Comp Camera
7:03 Use Expression to auto-orient Card Dance towards Camera
8:40 Final VFX Compositing
9:05 Outro
Enjoy watching!
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