3D Tutorial for Editors: Confessions of a Two-Dimensional Man
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One of my favorite things about building 3D titles in Boris RED is that you can start by building them in two dimensions. It's not just a matter of training wheels for the three-dimensionally impaired. On the contrary, this is a profoundly powerful concept, because it means that any of the kinds of animations you can create in RED in two dimensions can be extruded into three. [an error occurred while processing this directive] Think about the many kinds of text animations that you see every day in two dimensions, but never in three -- things like animated tracking and text on path. That's because most 3D applications aren't really oriented toward text, and most animation tools don't offer easy extrusions. Boris very definitely swings both ways.
One of the methods that Boris uses to provide maximum animation flexibility is to provide multiple sets of controls for the different aspects of each layer: the layer itself, and the elements contained in that layer. This is what the Controls window reflects in its default state. (Although these screen grabs are from a Macintosh, RED behaves identically in Windows hosts.)
For this particular animation, I'm not animating the position of the layer, but rather the individual letters in the word OOZE. To do this, I need to expose the controls for animating text: I click the disclosure triangle to reveal the layer's Face track in the timeline, and selecting that layer. This is such an important concept to grasp that we've provided a Track Selector button as a shortcut. You can see it highlighted in the image above as it looks in RED 2.1. Here it is in RED 2.0.
This brings up a specific set of controls for text. (Later on, we'll use this method to bring up controls specific to other types of media.)
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