From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Your Photos to Life in Three Dimensions Using Photoshop and After Effects

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Creating a 3D pan

Creating a 3D pan

- We've moved around an object but I want to show you how you can also move through an environment such as a tunnel or an alley or a street to create some really cool effects. In this case, we've got the photograph of a street view. If I invoke Vanishing Point, the goal is going to be to create this scene. You can see the different environments that we've drawn here for the floor and the different buildings. All right, let's select those for a moment and I'll just clear 'em out. What we're going to do now is create the first plane. So I'll click to define the street itself. Now you might find it useful just to zoom out a little bit so you can really get that whole plane there like so. And then define the surfaces. There we go, we'll go to the bottom of the building. If it doesn't quite work out, you can grab these corners and move, but if it turns red, it means you've got a bad edge. Now hold down the Command key and…

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