This video by Photoshop wizard Bert Monroy shows how to make a 3D coin in Photoshop Extended. It's the method I used to create the animated coins in the Small Change video.
Bert's a source of inspiration in that he uses Photoshop in a very innovative and unusual way, creating huge panoramic illustrations as large a 30 ft. across, and more than 6 gigabytes in size!
Here's a link to his site: http://www.bertmonroy.com/
So once the 3D object is created, I imported it as a Photoshop file into After Effects CS5. The image can be imported with a camera and 3D controller attached, which has some pluses and minuses.
For example, you have to apply all lighting in Photoshop-it own't work with this type of file in After Effects, as it does with normal 3D files. Also, if there is more than one 3D object in the Photoshop file, saving and exporting the file takes an eternity compared to After Effects.
Forget about multiple 3D Photoshop objects imported as a single file into After Effects-it bogs down and slows the app to a crawl. With those caveats taken into account, though, animating the coin was fairly straighforward, changing X, Y and Z coordinates and keyframing.
I rendered the file first with keyframing and ease-in/out in AE. I then applied some faux motion blur in AE and rendered that fairly quickly. From concept to completed video-2 days.
-Jeff Shaffer
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