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After Effects Tutorial: 3D Mesh Morph to Text with Trapcode Tao

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Trapcode Tao is a 3rd-party plugin from Red Giant. We’ll be taking a look at Tao and how the effect works. In this After Effects Tutorial, we’ll specifically use Trapcode Tao to morph mesh into 3D text. Tao offers a wide variety of options for After Effects users who are looking to animate 3D geometry along a path. Trapcode Mir offers similar 3D geometric mesh options, however Tao is more path oriented. You can distort and duplicate parameters to create abstract objects. After watching this tutorial, you should be able to use Trapcode Tao in After Effects!

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After Effects: 3D Mesh Morph to Text with Trapcode Tao

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