I said in an earlier post that I will test the difficulty of the VFX that will be required in the making of the two scenes of the short film. Since I only used Adobe After Effects once before, I was not too confident in my ability with that particular software, but still wanted to at least attempt to make 3D Text on Adobe After Effects. With that said I decided to go on Linda.com so I could learn how to go about it. It turns out that this may be achievable after all as it was too difficult a process. I needed to use 3D camera tracker that will outline all the camera movement in the clip and I can choose where to anchor the text. From there I could add depth to the text and adjust the lighting but didn’t get to since I ran into a few complications. The footage became distorted somehow and because my laptop is a bit outdated, the whole process was very slow to say the least in terms of rendering. The important thing is that I gave it a shot and I think I will be able to accomplish it when I edit the footage in the RMIT editing booths, so in the end I did achieve my objective. I will now see if this is the type of subtitles that the others had envisioned since they might want some standard subtitles, more like the SBS format of 2D text. Either way I am prepared to do what is asked of me since I now know how to do 3D text as well as 2D text.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4iXF6gqByUoRHZVay1PR1BYcUU