How I Animated this Faux 3D Peach in After Effects
1.7K views · 2025-06-02
Motion Design
Learn how I created a peach animation that looks like it’s rotating in 3D space, but is actually made of 2D shape layers. In this Adobe After Effects tutorial, you’ll learn how to animate the Path Property of shape layers to simulate 3D rotation, and how to cut and rearrange the layer order to pull off the illusion.
⬇️ Download my peach illustration to animate: https://www.meganfriesth.com/freebies/peach
🎓 Learn how to create real-world animation projects. My course, After Effects, Explained walks you through 7 hands-on projects that build into an explainer animation: https://animationexplained.com/aeexplained
Time Stamps:
1:00 - Project File Tour
3:00 - Recreate the Animation
4:50 - First “Rotation”
9:35 - Second “Rotation”
10:45 - Third “Rotation”
13:53 - Forth “Rotation” and Animate Out
17:10 - Animate Stem
🌎 Learn more about the UN Sustainable Development Goals that I mentioned* at 0:30: https://bit.ly/edutuber25sdgs
The goal to half food waste by 2030 is part of goal number 12: Responsible Production and Consumption. Addressing food waste would also help with Climate Action (reduced methane emissions from food rotting in landfills), Life on Land and Life Below Water (could use fewer resources to produce food which could leave more space for biodiversity) and it could even help with the goal of Zero Hunger!
🌱 Subscribe to my new channel, Explanimated and look out for a video about food waste & solutions soon: https://www.youtube.com/@UCc0_pmwcHTY40kmrXl0ZzxQ
➡️ Get Overlord, the tool I mentioned at 3:28 to easily transfer artwork from Illustrator to After Effects: https://battleaxe.co/?ref=animationexplained
👀 Watch my Skillshare classes with a 1 month free trial: https://www.skillshare.com/animationexplained
My website: https://www.animationexplained.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/animationexplained
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/explanimated/
*The content of this video has not been approved by the United Nations and does not reflect the views of the UN or its officials or Member States.
The Overlord link is an affiliate link. I get a small cut of the sale at no additional cost to you. This helps me create more content for you. I promise that I would still recommend Overlord even if I didn’t make a penny; it’s a tool I use myself!
⬇️ Download my peach illustration to animate: https://www.meganfriesth.com/freebies/peach
🎓 Learn how to create real-world animation projects. My course, After Effects, Explained walks you through 7 hands-on projects that build into an explainer animation: https://animationexplained.com/aeexplained
Time Stamps:
1:00 - Project File Tour
3:00 - Recreate the Animation
4:50 - First “Rotation”
9:35 - Second “Rotation”
10:45 - Third “Rotation”
13:53 - Forth “Rotation” and Animate Out
17:10 - Animate Stem
🌎 Learn more about the UN Sustainable Development Goals that I mentioned* at 0:30: https://bit.ly/edutuber25sdgs
The goal to half food waste by 2030 is part of goal number 12: Responsible Production and Consumption. Addressing food waste would also help with Climate Action (reduced methane emissions from food rotting in landfills), Life on Land and Life Below Water (could use fewer resources to produce food which could leave more space for biodiversity) and it could even help with the goal of Zero Hunger!
🌱 Subscribe to my new channel, Explanimated and look out for a video about food waste & solutions soon: https://www.youtube.com/@UCc0_pmwcHTY40kmrXl0ZzxQ
➡️ Get Overlord, the tool I mentioned at 3:28 to easily transfer artwork from Illustrator to After Effects: https://battleaxe.co/?ref=animationexplained
👀 Watch my Skillshare classes with a 1 month free trial: https://www.skillshare.com/animationexplained
My website: https://www.animationexplained.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/animationexplained
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/explanimated/
*The content of this video has not been approved by the United Nations and does not reflect the views of the UN or its officials or Member States.
The Overlord link is an affiliate link. I get a small cut of the sale at no additional cost to you. This helps me create more content for you. I promise that I would still recommend Overlord even if I didn’t make a penny; it’s a tool I use myself!