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Well, so far we know that we can animate our text in two axis; the X and the Y, X being left and right and Y being top to bottom and I applied some basic animations using the range selector to this text. After Effects CS3 introduces something new and when we go to our animator one for animation we apply to our text, we can choose to add a new property called enable per character 3D. This gives us the ability to animate in three dimensions now, so as you see, I'm going from top to bottom and when I scrub my bar down here, I can find that I have a new property. We see we have our traditional X, Y and Z, but now we can animate in more than one dimension; the Z axis. So I'll go to the end of this keyframe here and look at this; I am now animating in Z depth. So I could animate not only top to bottom, left to right, but forward and backward, which is really, really cool. So I could bring this text forward and keyframe it and have it completely move around. I'll grab my orbit camera tool just to move this around a little, tiny bit so you can see this. It's a little bit more clearly. The text is coming at us because now we have this Z depth position. This is not here if you don't enable the per character 3D mode. So let me show you something else we can do with this. There are tons of presets available to you as well. I'm going to go to my window menu and grab the effects and presets and I'm going to show you that I can also, let me grab all these guys and get them out of here, I have a 3D text category in the text category on the animation presets. So you see your presets here for animation, twirl that down, go to text and now you have a 3D text category. I can just drag one of these guys right on top of this text and then scrub my timeline to see what happens. It adds its own presets. Let me undo that one and put this one on there and you can have After Effects do the heavy lifting for you. There are all kinds of cool effects available to you. But once again, just make sure your text has the per character 3D mode enabled so you can see all these great effects. And that's really cool too. I'll just do it real slow. Now, of course, you can do all of these manually but this is the computer age, so why not have the computer give you just a little bit of help? Another cool effect as well, with a lot of blur on it. So once again, you can enable the per character 3D by going to your text animator and then choosing enable per character 3D. This will then give you the third dimension that you can play around with to manually animate it using the range selector and your X, Y and Z positional or rotational or any controls. And then if you don't want to do that, you can always add presets by simply clicking on something and dragging it onto your text and then scrubbing the timeline to see what you have.