How To Make Metallic 3D Text in After Effects (Without Any Plugins!)

Posted on by Jeff Riegel, Producer/Editor

by Todd Blankenship, Rocketstock

Creating metallic text is a common motion graphics request. But it used to be difficult to get professional results natively in After Effects. Not anymore.

While it has been possible for a while to get 3D text in After Effects thanks to Video Copilot’s Element 3D, it has been impossible to do it in After Effects without some sort of third-party support.

Now, however, there is a way. As Nick Campbell over at Greyscalegorilla shows us, it is now possible to get some really sleek 3D text in After Effects natively using the Cinema 4D render engine for your 3D compositions.

Follow the written steps here.

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For two decades, Jeff Riegel was a former senior level Producer/Editor for the Department of Defense and various government contractors in Northern Virginia. Outside of the workplace, Jeff keeps himself busy with the creation of festival worthy documentaries "Tori Nelson: Fighting for Her Future" and once nominated and two time Emmy award winning "A Journey of Education and Remembrance." His short film "The Great Realisation" captured the eyes at 18 international film festivals with various winning honors; a poem that takes on heavy themes such as fevered capitalism, man-made ecological issues, digital addiction and, of course, the current global blight. Jeff is looking for funding investors and co-producing "The Lost Clipper," a two+ decades project about the first hijacking in U.S. history and the search for those 15 lost souls abducted in 1938, the true first act of war with Japan. Filming takes him to Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, Canada, and locations across the U.S. He enjoys creating media-marketing social networking campaign for personalities such as 13-time world boxing champion Tori Nelson, Netflix's "Narcos" personalities Steve Murphy and Javier Pena, and renowned landscape photographer Frank Lee Ruggles. Jeff is eager to attack any project head-on. Jeff's Motto: think beyond convention...and consider it done! Jeff's Motto: think beyond convention...and consider it done!