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Preparing Your Scene
Now that you've learned how to model for Element and get the objects into
Element 3D, let's start setting things up. This chapter is the precursor to animating
with Element. Here, you will learn how to set up your scene, light it, and get a
camera ready.
Element scenes in After Effects
Element 3D scenes, unfortunately, are currently limited to five object groups.
An object group is a collection of geometrical objects that is animated together.
Under some circumstances, you may have multiple objects in a group, but not in
this example. As a result, much of this chapter is devoted to tricks to overcome the
limitations in Element 3D.
We're going to cover the following topics:
• Saving your objects to your library so that they may be used in other
instances of the Element plugin
• Setting up your objects in the After Effects interface and generating null
objects to animate them easily
• Setting up your camera and lights in the scene and creating a new null object
to create a focal point for the depth of field
Let's get started!
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