You know you have your food or drink built, in this case we have our cup built, we're going to add a lot of dimension to it. This is what I absolutely love. This is a very powerful tool within after effects that we can utilize within shape layers. And it adds so much dimension to a flat object. Of course, we're adding dimension here with this curve and these curves slight curve here at the top. That is giving the illusion that it's a 3d object, which is fantastic, but we're going to add even more to that.

So first thing I want to do though, is this lid. You see the bump here on the bump there but it's not showing up here in the middle. So what I'm going to do is go into my lid and shape two is the little round part that goes around it here. And shape one is the full lid itself. I'm gonna go into shape two and it's going to try something here. go in here and I'm gonna make this a pure white and see if that gives me a little I'm going for, that's about right, I want my lead to be a little bit more white though.

I'm gonna go into shape to here. And I'm going to move this up just a little bit more, we get a little more white, I want that round, this little part here to show up, but not too much. That looks pretty good. So we have a difference between our cup a little bit bluish white, and then the lid part is different. And then this rounded part is a little bit different. And that's, that's what I'm looking for.

I wanted some differentiation between these here. And as we add dimension, this will make a lot more sense. And it will start to really stand out but for now I really like that. So looking pretty good. Okay. I'm gonna start with the cup, and then we're gonna it's gonna get kind of easy from there.

So with the cup, what you want to do is highlight that layer, right click, and go to Layer Styles, and we're going to put an Enter shadow, right here, this inner shadow. And what this does is it creates something that it casts a shadow. So the edges cast a shadow just like it does in real life. But the difference is the shadow happens on the inside of the shape. Instead of a shadow happening on the outside of a shape, light can come from whatever direction you want. But that shadow is cast on the inside of the object not on the outside, so we're going to use it slightly different.

So if you go to Inner Shadow, it's going to show up here, go to Inner Shadow down here. This discovery triangle we are going to twirl down and we want the opacity to be 100%. Because we want it extremely hard. We want the size to be zero. And actually, I'm gonna leave that I'm going to bump this up to 10 and just let you see what that is. So then our distance is where we're going to actually see it so you can almost kind of see it right here.

We change this You can kind of see it happening right there. If you bump up the distance, then you'll start to see it. I'll see how it's causing that shadow on the inside of the shape, it doesn't go on the outside and as you move your distance around, it kind of moves it around. So I'm going to say about 35 or so 3035 we'll start there, but I don't want it coming from that angle. I actually want the light coming straight from the side. So I'm going to change this to 180 and now it's coming straight from the side because I want it to create the illusion that their shadow on this side but I want it to be 2d kind of a flat, icon looking shape.

So that's why I'm wanting that to come straight from the side and this right here. I know it isn't realistic, but I like that because it enhances the look that this might be kind of curved. You can play with this too. I mean if you want it off just a little bit when it down more or less of that. At the bottom more of that the bottom, however you'd like. I like the 180.

So I'm going to keep that. Good. Now notice how it's kind of fuzzy, this is where the size comes in. So if I bump this size up, it gets more and more blurry. And again, it's a personal preference to you. But be careful with this because of the fact that here, it looks pretty good.

But it's also fuzzy down here. So that's where it gets a little bit odd. So that's why I don't mess with that too much. And on this, I actually want the size to be zero because I like that hard look like that. Now, we don't want to black, I don't want to black. So I'm going to go into my color Actually, I'm gonna choose this and choose the actual color of the cup.

And what that does, it's in multiply mode, so it gives it this bluish tint. It's a little lighter. I'm gonna move it down more into the gray because I do want it to move Little bit more, but I want to notice how far down and putting it so it's about right here. That's the look. All right, yeah, I'm liking that. Looks pretty good.

Okay, so now here's a nice easy thing is we grab Inner Shadow, and go, Command C to copy that. And then just click lid, Command V, and wrap, Command V. looking really good. So we can go into here to our rap looks pretty good, our lid, looking good. So now we have that shadow here and it bumps around this little thing, giving more of an illusion that that is a 3d object down this way. Looks really good. What I want to do is actually change this color slightly.

So I'm going to grab this eyedropper to here and then it puts it at the actual spot, but it's an multiplies, I'm gonna move this down just a little bit, I want the color to be slightly different than the color that's on the cup. Do the same thing with the wrap down your layer styles in your shadow. See that color is a gray. It's multiplying. So it's a gray with this brown, but I actually want it to be the color of the brown and then move it out to the gray. This is a little more in depth.

Nice. All right, so we're already adding a lot. The next piece that we need are the shadows. There's going to be a shadow underneath this wrap and a shadow underneath this lip, that's going to show up. So what I want to do is actually just create a shape. So I'm gonna grab my pen tool again.

And this one's going to be interesting because you just want the thickness of the shape. I'm going to click here and click over here, and I have that line. And that's really all I need. I mean, you can blow it if you'd like. But I'm just creating a line and I'm going to bump that thickness up. actually gonna go pretty thick, maybe up to 50.

And this morning to rename, lid shadow. mostly going to change this color to yellow. That changes the entire color here, you just right click on this square, and you can change that color that's extremely helpful. As you get more and more layers. You can give certain types of layers certain colors, so you just know that those are the colors that you either need bunched together or what that color means if you're just looking in the field on the right hand side You'd have to search for the name. So that's a great tip, that lid shadow is gonna have to be under the lip, but over the cup because we only want it to show up on the cup, and we don't want that color either, of course.

So we are going to first I'm gonna get rid of this pill not to really have one but just best practices, get rid of it. And this stroke, grab this color with the same color as the shadow that is on the lid. So that's important. there and now we can just grab this and shrink this up a little bit. Now all we wanted is inside the lid. So once it disappears from this section right here, we're good.

And same on this side. Hold Shift so it only moves straight in. And I only want to disappear from the lid. That's all I'm looking for. I'm not worried about this piece right here on The cup and you're going to see why in just a second. Okay, once I have that lid shadow, the length and everything that I want, I'm going to parent that use this little pick whip here and parent that to the lid itself.

So I grabbed this pick whip and I draw a line to the lid for them holding the Lego or you can just grab this right here and go down to what layer you want it parented to. So now the piece where this is sticking out, and why that doesn't matter is because we are going to create a mask out of this cup. The masks are extremely helpful get a grasp on masks will help you tremendously because I don't need to. I want this shout out to show up everywhere that this cup is but I do not want it to show up anywhere where the cup is not. And so that's important because anyway this cup is not I do not want to show up and I only want to show up underneath this lit so actually if I grabbed this lid shadow, and I stretch this out to the edges here so even if this is sticking out that's okay but underneath this the widest part of the lip, that's where the shadow is going to show up.

So that's why I wanted to show up on the cup itself. So now we take the cup like this, and we duplicate it Command D, duplicate the cup. Take this above the lid shadow and then right here where it says trackman we are going to click that and go down to alpha mat cup to now you notice it only shows up on the cup. Now the reason I made this the same color as the lid shadow was it so I could make sure to see where it was because sometimes if you made it the same color as the cup shadow, which we're going to in just a second, because that's what color was actually be if the shadows falling on the cup, it's gonna be the same color as this shadow. But I didn't want that while I was building it because sometimes it'll be too short.

And you can't see that until you animate it and be like, Whoa, that shadow is really short. So that's why I did that. You click this little button here toggles the lines on and off. And I usually don't like them because I don't really don't care where the path is right now. So as you can see, that only shows up where the cup is, which means that because we parented this lid shadow to the lid, if I grab the lid, and I move it around, the shadow goes with it. You'll also notice that the shadow only shows up when it gets over the cup.

That is the power of track mats. Track mat essentially is saying I'm punching a hole in this big field. And that's the only place that whatever is behind it is going to show up. So really, you don't even have to make your shadow very accurate. All because it's only showing up in that spot. Now we can go in here to good shadow here, dropper, boom making that same color.

There we go. Now we have that shadow, it's good, maybe a little bit too far down. I'm going to move it up just a tad holding Shift so it'll only go straight up. The farther down you put the shadow, the larger it makes that lip look. There we go. Perfect.

Now we'll make the shadow of the wrap now because this curve needs to be the same curve as the rap is. Whereas up here, we could do a straight line and get away with it and that's perfectly fine. Here, we want this curve to be the same. So I'm actually going to grab the rap duplicate the rap itself. And I'm going to move that layer down a little bit holding shift in with the Fill, I'm going to grab the color of the cup, going to go into rap two to layer styles and just delete the Layer Style because we don't want that on the shadow shadows not going to have depth within the shadow. Take her app to move it down, change this name to rap shadow.

Now that curve is going to be exactly the same, which is what we want. We want that curve to be exactly the same. You can make it as big as you'd like. Remember that the more you put there that makes that rap look thicker. So just gonna go just a little bit down like this. That's about right like that.

And it's overlapping here, which all that is perfectly fine because we are going to do the exact same thing we did with the lid shadow, which is take the cup, duplicate it, move it to above the rap shadow, your track mat will always be the layer that's directly above the layer you want to make the track mat for. So I can't put cup three up here and make it a track mat for or shadow. It won't work your track mat has to be directly above it. So it's directly above it here. I go over here to track mat health attract that cup three. There we go.

Now we've added a whole bunch of dimension very, very quickly. Right, just like that we've created a bunch of dimension. Now that we have all this. Oh, one last thing just wrapped shadow. It needs to be parented to the rap. Otherwise you move the rap and the rap shadow will move.

Okay, so now that we have that parented, we can grab this and move it around, and that shadow goes with it, but it's nowhere else so as the slides onto the cup at the very, very bottom, it starts to show up exactly where that cup is. And everything is looking great. Now that we have all those, we can start our animation