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    • Adobe Photoshop CS3/CS4
    • Maya or Any Other 3D Program

3D in Photoshop CS4

December 29, 2008

Coming up on today’s epsiode:

We’re going to take a look at Photoshop’s new 3D features.

Adobe added features but deleted some compatibility available in CS3. Being able to import Product models for print, video and web makes a very efficient workflow.

Although new camera control abilities were added in CS4, an incredibly useful ability is no longer there.

Features add and deleted

3D mesh animation support no longer works in CS4. This mean 3D models with animated parts no longer playback inside photoshop. The new 3D UI has deleted the timeline scrubber for the mesh. Making layer styles out of one object with different product stages would be a great workflow. You can still use CS3 for this, but wont be playback in CS4. Hopefully Adobe is able to bring this feature back. Being able to save all collateral as one psd file would save a lot of headaches. So to use playback, I import my Maya model into 3D Max and export it as a .3DS file.

CS3 Mesh Animation Workflow

You can just open it photoshop cs3. Then just set each layer at the need keyframe. Now set a layer comp for each state.

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  1. Zorana says:
    January 29, 2009 at 8:01 pm

    Hi there-

    Just to let you know that you can still animate 3D meshes but now you can use the animation timeline and map object rotation, camera rotation, render settings and lights to keyframes and voila!

    Hope that helps-
    z.

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