After Effects 4: Z Space

In the fourth After Effects workshop we experimented with the camera and the way you can occupy 3d space. The aim of the workshop was to use a landscape you had created on Illustrator and get the camera to travel through it as the different layers revealed themselves. I created a L. S. Lowry inspired landscape with a factory and terraced houses. Manipulating the path of the camera so it started at the back of the scene with just the factory in shot and then slowly panning out to reveal the houses too. An effect was also added to make it look like the different elements of the scene (the factory and terraced houses) were being rolled up into the scene. This was done by using the Page Turn effect (found in Effects > Distort > CC Page Turn). Below is the Landscape I created before the workshop for the animation, followed by the final animation from the workshop. 

Z_Space from Eve Whelan on Vimeo.