You can find more about them and their products at Step 1 – Getting Started Not only do they make 3D plugins, but they have collections of effects and visuals for use in your After Effects projects, as well as tutorials. The drawback is that in order to do this in After Effects, you need to use Element 3D.Įlement 3D is a plugin for After Effects that allows you to import and use 3D OBJ files in After Effects.

The advantage to this is that you can move a camera around and get dynamic angles without using multiple files. I was recently working on a project that required an outline of an object to be animated in Adobe After Effects, but instead of using an image, I decided to use an existing 3D object (an OBJ file) to create a dynamic outline. For this blog post I thought I’d try my hand at a simple tutorial.