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Card Dance


    The Card Dance effect is available from the Adobe Web site (www.adobe.com) after you register your copy of After Effects. This effect creates the appearance of card choreography by segmenting layers into numerous cards and then controlling all geometric aspects of the cards by using a second layer. For example, Card Dance can simulate an extruded pin sculpture, a crowd "doing the wave," or letters floating on the surface of a pond.

    Card Dance: Top: Original (left) and with Card Dance applied using different rotations (center and right).
    Original (left) and rotation adjusted using Camera Position controls (center) and Corner Pin controls (right)
    Card Dance: Bottom: Original (left), gradient layer (center), and with Card Dance applied using the gradient layer (right).
    Original (left), gradient layer (center), and with Card Dance applied (right)

    Apply Card Dance to the layer you want to use for the front of the cards. To set the view, use the rotation or perspective controls, or match the perspective of the effect in any scene by corner-pinning.

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