 Hello everybody welcome back to another Adobe After Effects tutorial and this one gonna show you how to make a 3D animated grid just like this one it's kind of wild and it should take less than two minutes so let's just start from scratch I'll delete all of this let's go ahead let's create a new composition file so we're gonna the composition new composition 1920 by 1080 24 frames per second is fine doesn't matter too much the next step you want to create a new layer so we're gonna go to layer new solids or creating a new solid layer but note here that the width and the height are not the equivalent to the composition the width is three thousand the height is two thousand we want them to be a little bigger than the composition click okay alright now we are on our way the next step if you haven't guessed yet we're going to the effects and presets panel and in the search bar type in the word grid then under generate grid drag and drop grid onto it and there you go we can already see we've got the beginnings of a cool grid alright good stuff the next step we're going to go over here to the effect controls panel and then change the size from corner point to width and height sliders this is a better way to do it and then now watch we can change our width and height so I'm going to change the width to 48 and I'm going to change the height to about let's go with 48 let's just make it nice and even something like that see how now we've got a much more defined and more less spaced out grid so to speak so we've done that we've made those changes now if I just look over here it's looking pretty good okay so we've changed that that that and that now head back down to the black solid we're gonna make a few more changes first off we're gonna make this a 3d layer so I'm gonna click on this box here 3d layer now drill down into the actual black solid I'm gonna just drop that little triangle down and then I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna drop down transform and you're gonna see a few options the one we're looking for is orientation what we want to do now is we want to change the orientation from 0% to 90% we're basically just flipping it on its head so once it hits 90 beautiful now just drag and drop that little Zed so you'll see I'm hovering over that little blue line there the blue arrow drag and drop it and pull it down so that it basically meets the ground now look at that we've got a nice base to our 3d grid we're not done yet of course we now need to go ahead and just do a little bit of a I guess animation of the grid so how do we do that simple you go up here to the back to the effect controls panel click on anchor and then watch this click the stopwatch make sure your play heads at the beginning and then move forward to say I don't know let's go three seconds and then just take this 1500 to something like 2000 so you guys can see it so somewhere around somewhere around there sure now watch what we've got we've got this animated grid on the bottom and now we just want to add one to the top if that's what you want to do now just head up to make sure it selected go to edit go to duplicate and you've got two on top of each other perfect turn the bottom one off like I've done here click back on this one and then we're just gonna pull it up top so whoops wrong button and we want the blue one and then watch I'm just gonna pull it to the top and then presto now if I turn the bottom one back on they're going in the same direction that might be what you're looking for if you want them going the opposite directions just head up here go to layer go to transform and then just go to where is it flip horizontal and now look we've got that animated effect that's all there is to it guys thanks for watching