Exports the selected layers and cameras within the work area to Maya, 3ds Max, or Lightwave.

Want to have a Day/Night terminator effect on an Earth sphere and use lighting to control the materials? Learn how to create a Falloff material in 3dS Max for a realistic Day/Night Earth globe. Learn how to composite this effect in After Effects and how to build the scene.

An introduction to the power of RPF and RLA files and how they can be used in post.

This is a fairly simple technique often done poorly. The trick to making the 3D extrusion look as good as possible is in the way you use a custom shape layer and the way you assign textures to the extrusion.

Cast 3D shadows onto live action footage
Use shadow diffusion and special material options
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