 Hello everybody welcome back another Dolby After Effects tutorial and this one I'm going to show you how to turn anything into 3D with literally one click. Let me show you what I'm talking about here. Here is an example of this flat vector icon that I downloaded. Here's the original right here it's just a simple little vector icon and you'll see here as I twirled him around he's as flat as a pancake. The exact same guy right here has depth and I did this with one click using a simple free plugin. Let me show you how to do this it's a piece of cake. All right so the first step is you just need to download the plugin it is completely free as you'll see here. I'll put a link in the description it's on motion nations.com and it's called the 3D Extruder Free. How about that and all you got to do is just go down here and then around here it says yeah in-depth installation and usage tutorial if you get stuck installing it it's easy to do but if you get stuck they've got a tutorial for it click the download link presto. Also I will note up front here there is a paid version for five dollars I did not use this version I do not own this version so I don't know how good it is but if you've got the money and this is something that you want to do then maybe it might be worth it for you. It doesn't really matter to me I'm going to show you how to do it for free. Also look at this this is the bulldog in the image here so you'll know that it's a flat image because this is the guy that I'm using so anyways let's go back into After Effects I'll show you the next steps. Alright so we're in After Effects I'm going to delete everything except for the image so I'm going to delete all of this stuff and here we go all we got left now is this bully image and if I click on him there he is there's our bulldog and that's what we're going to be working with so the first step I'm going to create a new composition I go to composition new composition and in this case 1920 by 1080 should be just fine doesn't really matter I'm just going to be showing you the technique. Now drag and drop in that image into the composition into the timeline like I've done here and presto we've got the bulldog or whatever you're working with if you're following along with me it's loaded into the composition I'm going to grab the handle hold down the shift key and I'm just going to make it a little smaller so it's easier to see. Okay good stuff now just for this for this tutorial I'm going to go to layer new solid and I'm going to create a white background solid and I'm just going to go ahead and click on okay and you'll see here we've got a white solid and then I'm going to drop it beneath the bully the reason why I'm doing that is because it's easier to show you the 3d effect against a white solid that step is not required if you're following along. Okay now comes the easy part go up here to window and under window if you go down to the bottom once you've installed it you'll see 3d extruder free down here kind of under underneath everything I'm going to click on that and then because I already had it open I'm going to re-click on it and this is literally a one-click option I'm going to click on it and presto it's going to open up to 3d extruder free now before I add and hit extrude what you need to do is you need to go ahead and make this a 3d layer so if you don't know how to do that all you got to do is click on this little button here it says 3d layer and it allows this to be manipulated in 3d I'm going to click on that and presto you'll see that we've got an x y and a blue z axis there if you do not see this just click on this button down here and you'll be able to see it'll open up some more tabs and toggles that you can put on the 3d now go to layer new camera oops I hit light I gotta stop drink and drink today go to layer go to layer new camera when you do that just click on any camera it doesn't matter I'm just going to click whatever camera it opens up and selects for me not a big deal now we've got a camera we've got a layer in 3d I'm just going to click on the bully layer and click on the button extrude when you do that you'll see this cool little rectangle pop up around it I'll close this and now I'm just going to pull on this little yellow or this green handle and as I twirl it you'll see here that it is literally 3d that was all there was to it now I realized you may get stuck at a step somewhere along all that stuff that I showed you it may be a little tricky in terms of installation if you have any questions just leave a comment below and I will help you out and make sure that you get this installed and you can try this out finally I will note here that it creates a null layer and under null layer if you open it up you get a few different options you get rotations you can do all that good stuff you get different types of materials but under effects you'll see here that one that says Z offset that's the one that allows you to make this a thicker or thinner effect depending on what you're going for in fact if we go all the way here you'll see here that it's bulldogs all the way to the bottom everybody and if you go to the left it's a thinner effect so this is the one that matters the most Z offset so I'm going to make it a little thicker just for this tutorial and there you go now if I keep twirling it finally if you look at it directly from the side you'll know that these are all basically just layers stacked on top of each other just makes copies of it but it gives it the 3d effect so that's how it does it it's awesome it's free thanks for watching