v2023 (23) Adobe After Effects CC for Teams & Businesses

This tutorial shows you how to make a realistic 3D swarm of insects in After Effects using the "Swarms" template from Creation Effects, for compositing into your shots.

Ben Marriott shows you how he recreated HBO's The Last Of Us titles using Plugin Everything AutoFill and the free Quick Chromatic Aberration 3 in After Effects.

Want to make better 3D particle animations without the use of third-party plugins in After Effects?  This tutorial shows you how to do just that.  Using the Pixel Pusher template makes it super easy.

Jonathan Winbush's latest tutorial shows you how to create a dynamic space scene animation with Cinema 4D, Unreal Engine, and After Effects.

If you work with old video footage in standard format or can't shoot 4K, learn how to make the job smoother and get better results.

Boone Loves Video walks you through using HandyCam, a plugin from PluginEverything that helps users control the camera in After Effects.

Learn about Rolling Shutter is, the of Rolling Shutter types you may encounter, and tools to fix this annoying video problem.

Interested in becoming a medical animator? Learn to create 2D and 3D medical animations that help to visualize microscopic mysteries.

Eric Say presented "The Bridge Between Cinema 4D and After Effects" during The Maxon 3D and Motion Design Show Siggraph 2022, Day 1.

Space, the final frontier! Learn to create stars, galaxies, moons, and more for your next space-themed film or science fiction short.

Ben Eshagpoor shows some basic physics simulations with Newton in After Effects, with Element 3D, attached using null objects.

Roland Hartmann of graphicinmotion.com demonstrates how to use Helium for After effects; from importing a 3D Model to adding primitives and much more.

To celebrate Flag Day, we've collected a series of tutorials about animating waving flags in a variety of applications.

Need to create a simple head rig and facial animation? It's easy with Joysticks and Sliders. Jafar Fazel shows you how.

In January 2022, Emonee LaRussa live-streamed an animation workshop for entry-level animators, using After Effects. Watch the replay!

The idea of network rendering is to distribute your render over a network, or farm, of computers, to speed up your render times.

Ben Marriott has some great tips on hidden features in After Effects. Uncover some of these features hiding in plain sight!

Have you been wanting to learn new software but don't know where to start? Don't have the time? Well, I'm here to help you make it happen.

Ae Blues examines Color Managed Workflows in After Effects, with four different spaces. These include Display, Log, Linearized, and ACES.

RE:Vision Effects has a couple mini tutorials that offer quick tips on how to make After Effect V22 and Multi-Frame Rendering (MFR) "more robust when any temporal processing effect requesting multiple input frames is used."

Martin Brennand of Boris FX gives a fast and easy solution for getting Faster Playback in After Effects 2022 with Mocha.b

Save time with the new Multi-Frame Rendering feature in After Effects. Get instructions on enabling it, plus potential plugin issues.

Create the Dune Look with Maxon Cinema 4D, Adobe After Effects, Boris FX Continuum, and Sapphire with John Dickinson.

Charles Yeager at Premium Beat has a tutorial for Retro Horror Movie Titles in After Effects that are similar to titles from Stranger Things.

Disintegrator Films creates Animated Gifs With Transparency with GifGun, on sale right now during the aescripts+aeplugins Summer of Sales.

Every month, After Effects Beginner shares the top five tutorials. Watch a roundup of the best tutorials featured in the July 2021 edition.

Ben Marriott shares 20 Quick Fixes to help with your common After Effects problems. Speed up your workflow! Fix little annoyances!

FreqReact has 8 different reactor types.  That's great, but how do they work? Davey Studio explains each one in depth in this tutorial.

Motion Design School shows you how to animate a cat in a washer. Animate the tail, the washing machine, and the spin in After Effects.

In this tutorial, Davey, from Davey Studio, shows you how to time remap to audio in After Effects using his powerful script, FreqReact and a clip from his favorite game: Rocket League.

Evan Abrahms shows you how to simply animate arms and legs that are, of course, made from shape layers. Super fun stuff!

After Effects Beginner’s Top 5 Monthly round-up continues with the five best tutorials that have been reviewed for May 2021. Watch now!

Andrew Ford Video shows you how to use Content-Aware Fill in After Effects. Content-Aware Fill lets you remove objects from your video.

May 13 is Frog Jumping Day, so to celebrate this important holiday, check out this fun After Effects tutorial from Simple Video Making.

Emmanuel Crown shows you how he made an incredibly cool animated cartoon of himself with Adobe Character Animator and Photoshop. Super fun!

After Effects Beginner’s Monthly round-up continues. We see the five best tutorials that have been reviewed in April's edition.

Holograms are a way to show recorded, beamed messages, schematics, 3-dimensional characters, futuristic user interfaces, and they're now being used in interesting and exciting ways in real life. We'll start with a few examples, and then some After Effects tutorials dealing with the humble hologram.

In the latest installment of Cheap Tricks, Hashi shows you how to create the Druun from the animated film "Raya and the Last Dragon".

After Effects Beginner walks you through the Top 5 After Effects tutorials of March 2021, with the full tutorial videos too!

Ignace Aleya has a new After Effects tutorial showing how to create the Lightning Speed Pass-By effect from Sonic the Hedgehog.

Kext Next has a thorough and useful After Effects tutorial about creating reflections from particles created in Trapcode Particular.

Joe from Workbench shows you how to make some cool futuristic circuitry. This look would be great for an FUI. Check out PQ FUI Toys too!

Three AE tutorials that show different techniques on how to animate a virus spread animation, like you've seen over and over on the news.

After Effects Beginner has put together reviews and insight into five new After Effects tutorials that went up in February. Lots of tutorials!

Brandon Fate explains how to create 3D tracked text in Adobe After Effects. It's fast and easy! He also includes a couple of workflow tips.

NoSleepCreative explains how to recreate the wavy trails effect in AE. The effects can be seen in the Meizu Aicy piece from Flatwhite Motion.

After Effects Beginner has put together reviews and insight into five new After Effects tutorials that went up in January. Lots of tutorials!

Hashi shows you how to make your modern footage look like an old video game with After Effects, Universe, Magic Bullet Colorista. Super fun!

Dive into After Effects Expressions Basics and quickly put expressions to use. Speed up your workflow and create more complex motion graphics

This tutorial from Noble Kreative is part of their Stardust Tutorial series.  It will show you how to create a 3D Laser Scan animation in Adobe After Effects using Superluminal Stardust.  The project files are also available, so you can easily follow along.

Hashi shows you how to recreate the Holtzman Shield VFX from Dune. Download a free template of Holtzman shield too!

In this tutorial, Josh Olufemii's friend Herman Huang shows how to create a really cool glowing outline effect in After Effects.  He also uses the free Video Copilot plug-in Saber. And there's a free project file so you can play along.

Lewis McGregor posted a Newton 3 - 10 Minute Crash Course at Premium Beat. Newton is a 2D physics simulator plugin for After Effects.

This tutorial from Murray Frost walks you through all the steps to create a unique fireball effect using After Effects and AEJuice Liquid Elements.

In this tutorial, Ignace Aleya shows you how to create a travel scene in After Effects. He animates the travel map of Europe from Belgium to Moscow.

Daniel "Hashi" Hashimoto creates a quick and easy CGI character in his Maxon NAB 2020 Rewind. He composites a giant monster onto the Las Vegas Strip!

This 8 part tutorial series from Boris FX walks you through the process of creating professionally-designed and animated 3D sports interstitial graphic from scratch using Title Studio together with an Adobe Creative Cloud workflow.

Mark Christiansen, motion design master and VFX virtuoso, walks you through his Mocha tracking workflow for Tracking and Clean up in After Effects.

Cinemagraphs is a format that combines photos and video. It's a still photograph where a small area of the image has repeated or looped movement occuring to draw your attention. Cinemagraphs can be published as movies or an animated GIF or in other video formats.

Learn to create a flock of birds using Pastiche for After Effects to reveal a form! Download a free demo of Pastiche from Motion Boutique and try it out!

Ignace Aleya walks you through how to create and composite natural-looking weather scenes in Adobe After Effects. Create snow and rain with these tutorials.

According to our website stats, these were the Top 10 Tutorials of 2019. It's interesting that most are technical, not about VFX.

Workbench shows you how to create an ugly sweater in After Effects. Indeed, it's a very clever tutorial that is built procedurally using the built-in Mosaic plugin.

Get the basics on how to design and animate maps in 3D space using GEOlayers 3 for After effects, with this quick start tutorial from Markus Bergelt.

Evan C Abrams uses Master Properties in the Essential Graphics Tab in After Effects to reuse elements in this Simple Pumpkin Face Rig.

Hashi of Action Movie Kid has been doing a mini-series on Game of Thrones effects, and it's extremely entertaining! This tutorial is filled with great tips.

In this tutorial, Najib Khayati from Noble Kreative shows you how to Create 3D Plexus Styles Effects in Adobe After Effects using Superluminal Stardust, the modular particle system.

This tutorial shows you how to use Plugin Everything HandyCam to make working with animated cameras in After Effects as painless as possible.

Reverse Stabilization is a compositing workflow where you stabilize the shot, then composite, and finally, you bring the motion back into your shot.

Watch this overview to learn how AEC4D Pro optimizes the workflow between Cinema 4D and After Effects.

In this tutorial from Rocketstock, you will learn how to create a Stranger Things-inspired “Upside Down” look in After Effects. Plus, you can easily follow along with the free project files.

Jonathan Winbush explains how to make fog with Boris FX Sapphire using your depth map in After Effects. Bonus tutorial: Create Z Depth pass for DOF and Fog.

This tutorial will teach you how to use 3d layers to create multiple producer points in Rowbyte Aura for After Effects.

Learn how to use the turbulent noise features in Rowbyte Aura for After effects to create stunning shapes with high frequency in 3D space.

This tutorial shows you how to create a beautiful procedural background using the new Rowbyte Aura for After Effects.

Arthur Whitehead explains his workflow for making Oreo cookie that splashes into some milk and caramel or liquid chocolate, made in RealFlow.

This tutorial shows you how to use comCode to convert your project files into shareable After Effects scripts.

TripodNinja, Krishna Bhamidipati has put together an excellent blog post about using RenderGarden to Accelerate After Effects Renders.

Ryan Connelly of Film Riot has a fun new tutorial about how to sort of transform into Shazam with After Effects and Tools from Video Copilot.

The newest update to Adobe brings the content aware fill feature to After Effects.  Digi Pro Tips shows you how to use it to create 2.5D or Parallax effects quickly and easily right in AE.

Surfaced Studio explains how to add digital make-up, scars, and tattoos to your talent using Mocha Pro’s Mesh Warp tool. This tool is found in the Insert Module, inside an Adobe After Effects workflow.

Emanuele Colombo shares many of his favorite After Effects shortcuts, some of them quite obscure yet handy, to help speed up your AE workflow.

In this tutorial, Hashi from Action Movie Kid shows you how to create the energy effects from Captain Marvel. Use fractal noise for controlled chaos!

Jason Boone from No Film School shows you how to use Google's new browser based animation tool, Google Earth Studio, and composite the images in After Effects.

Learn how easy it is to make fun, sleek, customizable toolbars in After Effects with this KraftyFX KBar overview tutorial.

Stop Writing Complex Expressions. Learn how to easily create dynamic modular Layouts with these 3 tutorials for mamoworld Pins & Boxes.

Learn all about the Time Displacement filter, which creates an effect known as slit scan, a trippy looking time manipulation that can be used to represent a time travel, a warp in the space time continuum, a drug trip and much more.

Even though After Effects is a very solid product, everyone will run into issues from time to time, whether it be from corrupt preferences, random errors, codec problems, and more. Here is a general problem-solving guide on how to troubleshoot some common issues with After Effects.

Learn how to create a 360° landscapes using FreeForm Pro + GEOLayers 2 in After Effects in this tutorial from Charles Yeager.Charles Yeager uses the built in VR tools that are native to After Effects. 

Hashi's latest Cheap Tricks episode, "Infinity And Beyond," in which he shows you how to achieve the disintegration effect that you have probably seen in Avengers: Infinity War! This is a great tutorial with loads of tips.

Trainer Eran Stern gives a great overview of a cool plug-in from Yanobox called Mosaic. It’s great for pixel texturing & ASCII effects with adaptive tiling.

In this short tech video, Mary Poplin explains how the Mocha AE 2019 Export Workflow to get motion tracking data and masking data from Mocha to AE has been improved.

Adobe shares information and recommendations for optimizing your system to get the most out of the latest Adobe video and audio tools.

If you’ve been collecting legacy versions of Adobe software on your Mac for safety, but you’re running out of space, here’s some advice on how to remove the bloat.

Freelance animator Lee Daniels explains 2 simple methods for creating seamless joints in the arms and legs of 2D characters, all directly inside AE, in this Quick Tip.

Joe Clay from Workbench explains an easy way to create a complex flocking system by using expressions in Adobe After Effects.  This is a great technique for animating particles, a school of fish, a flock of birds or even a colony of bats!

Learn how to use physical particles inside the Superluminal Stardust plugin for After Effects.

Flat Pack FX shows you how to quickly and easily easily create a cool X-Ray effect in Adobe After Effects.

Steve at Ripple training shows you how to do a Sky Replacement with Final Cut Pro X’s powerful Keyer effect and a few color correction tools.

With mamoworldJSON, link any property in After Effects to a JSON file. Makes frequently changing your text, colors or other properties simple.

Owen from Motion Array explains a few tips and techniques for creating an unfolding map animation in After Effects that includes parenting, using 3d layers, depth of field and more.

Harry Frank that explains how to use Particular with After Effects new Master Properties feature, which allows you to easily create tons of variations from a single comp.

ActionVFX’s Alan Fire has two tutorials explaining how to create a composite using their explosion stock footage in After Effects.

Daniel Hashimoto (creator of Action Movie Kid) walks through how to re-create some of the VFX and motion graphics from “A Wrinkle In Time, with special guest Lyric Wilson, who played Young Meg in the film. 

Andrew Kramer from Video Copilot is back with Chapter 2 of his Cinematic Title Design series. This time it is Damage and Decay FX. Learn how to create a procedural decay system capable of generating realistic rust, moss, cracks, corrosion and more, right inside After Effects.

Pond 5 offers 5 tricks and shortcuts, that you may not know about, to help speedup your After Effects workflow and edit more efficiently.

We’ve been teased with this for a while, and it’s finally here. Video Copilot has a new tutorial series on how to create cinematic titles entirely inside After Effects. The first one in the series is on Fantasy titles, and it’s packed with tons of custom beveling.

Jeremy Walker creates Mars with realistic planet texture maps, using Cinema 4D’s native MoGraph Effectors. He animates and composites it in After Effects.

VinhSon Nguyen has a tutorial that went up last month on the free Squash & Stretch extension for After Effects. Here are his tutorial and links to download. Plus, some information on how the concept of squash and stretch, a tenet of animation, will help you give your animations and characters personality.

The human body is still such an enigma and there are so many technical, yet beautiful, 2D and 3D animations that help to visualize those microscopic mysteries. We had a question about some methods of creating cells and other microscopic elements. First, we have some gorgeous examples to inspire you, followed by a few tutorials for various host applications.

This is a Freebie Friday article on sprite generators for After Effects and a tutorial about converting animations into a sprite sheet for unity.

Maghdad Asadi has a new overview video on working with passes (AOVs) from Arnold in After Effects.

Andrew Kramer, from Video Copilot, teased us about this tutorial last week, and it’s finally here. In this new tutorial, he shows us how to create a stylistic glitch effect, inside after effects without any 3rd party plug-ins.

In this tutorial, Johnathan Paul at School of Motion takes you through the different options within After Effects to help you smooth out those shaky handheld shots.

Roland Hartmann of graphicinmotion.com gives a nice tutorial on making particle trails with 3D elements and dives into some features like working with the new Model and Material nodes, creating primitives, extruding masks, adding environments, and using ambient occlusion.

Have you tried the new chart and data animating tools that were introduced in After Effects in CC 2018? Bring in your spreadsheet data to create animated charts and graphs and wow your corporate clients or make detailed graphs for a documentary.

Evan Abrams shows you an easy way to animate arms and legs in AE without straining yourself, using shape layers.

Learn all of the features and settings in the RenderGarden Script, plus learn how to submit a render, work with render nodes, and manage RenderGarden.

Animator and Filmmaker Daniel Gies explains his method for creating a fake cloth or secondary motion animation in After Effects using simple expressions.

In honor of Halloween and the recent release of season 2 of the popular Netflix Series “Stranger Things,” we thought you might like another look at these tutorials.  Learn how to recreate the 80’s-styled opening sequence in After Effects, and the “Upside Down” world Look - from Red Giant’s Seth Worley.

In this tutorial, Ilya Dji from EasyAfterEffects.net shows you how to create cartoon animated cloth in After effects, using the pin tool.  There’s a template download available too.

Blade Runner 2049 has really interesting visuals and sound design. Learn to recreate some of these effects with these five tutorials inspired by the film.

Expressions have been in After Effects for many years, but you can easily use After Effects and never touch them. Some find the programming a bit off putting, and I get that. Like learning short cuts, knowing just a few expressions can speed your workflow up 3 fold. Today, were going to go over some of the simple and common expressions that will make your day to day workflow faster and smoother, plus give you resources on where you can up your game!

Trainer Eran Stern gives a great overview of a cool plug-in from Yanobox called Mosaic. It’s great for pixel texturing & ASCII effects with adaptive tiling.

Award winning motion graphics designer Garth Lee shares some tips on creating the look of pixel art. Think video games from the 80’s and 90’s.

Caleb Ward shows you how to create a cool ocean simulation using only the built-in tools in After Effects.

This is an oldie but a useful tutorial from Aharon Rabinowitz at Red Giant. He explains how to shut the mesh to create a seamless wormhole in Trapcode Mir. Use it on your next time travel journey!

Learn how to create a rather complex particle earth HUD using the Superluminal Stardust plug-in in After Effects, in this tutorial by Roland Hartmann from graphicINmotion.

The 2017 solar eclipse was an event to remember and awesome to experience. Now you can recreate the celestial event in After Effects with this eclipse timelapse tutorial from Caleb Ward, graphic designer and video producer.  Ward uses no 3rd party plug-ins, but does use higher level techniques.  However he walks you through each step so even a novice AE user can do it.

Photographer and cinematographer Dan Marker-Moore shows you two different techniques to create his super cool light trails/long exposure looks in Adobe After Effects.

Eran Stern from SternFX walks you through the basics of using the Emitter Node in Superluminal Stardust modular 3D particle system in After Effects.

A Stitch Effect in time saves... time! Michael Park demonstrates how to create the look of jeans being stitched using Trapcode Particular.

Motion Graphic Designer Brent Willet shows you how to use some of AE’s built in motion and camera tracking features to add a 3D flag into a video clip.

Make an earthquake in After Effects! Make the earth shake with some shockwaves and heat distortion waves. Graded with Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks.

This 3D Pre-Compose Free Script comes from the creative minds at Video Copilot. It makes it easy to pre-compose 3D-aware layers. It's free!

I sat in on a session with Maxon about FUI, Future User Interfaces. These are fantasy HUD elements that you see in Sci-Fi films such as Iron Man, Star Wars, and others. Roland Hartmann of graphicinmotion.com explains how to create an exciting globe HUD element with the new Stardust, a modular particle system for After Effects.

This is a walk through of how to add some fun and engaging elements to your After Effects comps with Superluminal Stardust by replicating particles.

This Epic Saturn Space Scene from Caleb Ward includes a tutorial and free project files for creating, animating, and stylizing a planet in After Effects.

Make a Magical Particle Trail with Visionary Universe’s Lendon Bracewell walks you through making an enchanted magic particle trail with Stardust.

Mike from MOBOX Graphics explains how to create a hand drawn water drip and splash effect in After Effects. 

Andrew Kramer shows you how to direct lighting movement, create dynamic reflections, and more, all completely inside Adobe After Effects.

Learn how to connect effects and effect parameters in After Effects by using expressions making it easy to simplify keyframes and workflow, in this tutorial from Sean Frangella.

Being able to work quickly is important in the world of mograph.  Boost your speed in working with After Effects by learning these essential hotkeys, compiled by School of Motion.

Animating a counter was one of the first things I ever had to create in After Effects, and it wasn’t tough, but there are a few “gotchas”.

EJ from Eyedesyn gives some great tips on compositing your 3D work into After Effects.

Tutorials on Animating Cartoon Characters with Adobe Software including After Effects, Adobe Character Animator, and Adobe Illustrator.

I always love the content from Film Riot and here's a nice tutorial on Sky Replacement in AE. He stresses that Sky Replacement isn't a paint-by-numbers technique, and will vary with every shot.

This is some beautiful work for the film Eclipse. They replace a flat sky with a gorgeous eclipse. This is very similar to the technique I use in the tutorial above.

This was made for After Effects 6, but everything still applies to the current version. Replace your bland skies in After Effects.

Joshua Noel of SonduckFilm explains how to create a word morph transition in Adobe After Effects.

Learn how to generate realistic wood grain textures from scratch in After Effects with this tutorial from Joshua Cam Smith.

If you ever have a problem with nulls misbehaving when you bring a project form C4D into AE, Joren at The Pixel Lab has a workaround that might help.

Learn how to create a procedural water effect with refraction in AE, without using any 3rd Party Plug-ins with this tutorial from Andrew Kramer.

EJ Hassenfranz from Eyedesyn teaches us about the brand new Cinema 4D renderer included in After Effects CC 2017 & how to create a cel shaded 3D object.

Voxyde shows you how to create a freezing over / icy transition in After Effects, without the need for 3rd party plug-ins.

Dennis Wei shows you how to make a very cool particle trail using Plexus, C4D, After Effects and a few other things, like Trapcode Particular and Optical Flares.

Joren from The Pixel Lab shows you how to use RE:Map UV to replace a C4D UV pass with a 2D texture in After Effects.

Daniel Hashimoto (also know as Action Movie Dad) shows you how to create the DOCTOR STRANGE portal effect with Trapcode Particular.

Michele Yamazaki from Toolfarm walks you through a holiday-themed project featuring icy-looking 3D text in a snowy scene, using Zaxwerks ProAnimator for After Effects and Imagineer mocha pro. She goes over how to quickly track the Santa hat in the shot with mocha, create and animate the text in ProAnimator, and demonstrate the ambient occlusion capabilities in ProAnimator.

Sergei Prokhnevskiy shares over 100 useful After Effects tips and tricks that you might not know about in this 5 video series.

Doctor Strange is a visually awe-inspiring sci-fi film/fantasy film. We'll take a look at some behind the scenes videos and several tutorials.

Learn how to make a cool nebula-esque space scene in After Effects using Trapcode Particular.

Sergei Prokhnevskiy, of Ukramedia, has created a list of 16 expressions he feels all After Effects users should know. He explains which ones and why, in this tutorial.

John Dickinson from Motionworks has a walk-through tutorial breaking down how he made the main titles for the short horror film “The Cleansing Hour.”

Demons are rising, ghosts are haunting and blood is flowing with these Halloween themed tutorials that we have collected to help take the horror out of making frightening creations. Updated: October 25, 2016.

Learn how to make a scene similar to the creepy Virgin Mary scene from American Horror Story in which the statue changes expressions.

Joren from the Pixel Lab has a couple of quick tips to help you set up your C4D scenes so you can get a more realistic composite in AE.

Ryan Connolly from Film Riot shows you how to create classic horror style ghosts, combining practical and visual effects with Premiere and After Effects.

Learn how to use After Effects to effectively remove video noise and film grain without the need for 3rd party plugins.

Ever wanted to create the full black demon eyes effect from the TV series ‘Supernatural’?  Austin Newell takes you through the process in AE, step by step, to create this creepy yet cool effect.  Just in time for your spooky Halloween videos.

Mark Christiansen from Frame.io has create a list of the 12 essential steps you can take to optimize your system and workflow to make AE speedier.

Dennis Wei explains some of the techniques he used to create an X-Wing Hologram animation using Cinema 4D and After Effects, using the awesome free X-Wing model from videocopilot.net.

Caleb Lancaster demonstrates a simple way to create a scribbly look with text masks, no 3rd party plugins required.

Tobias Gleissenberger shows you how to make Adobe After Effects faster by using proxies.  A proxy is a placeholder that stands in place for a very large video file or image sequence in your project.

The popular new Netflix Series Stranger Things is a nod to Spielberg classics, such as ET and Goonies. Learn how to recreate the "Upside Down" world Look - from Red Giant's Seth Worley.

The popular new Netflix Series Stranger Things is a nod to Spielberg classics, such as ET and Goonies. Learn how to recreate the 80's-styled opening sequence in After Effects -  from Red Giant's Seth Worley.

This is the first part of a multi step tutorial that teached you how to create, texture, rig and composite a giant robot into live action footage. This first part shows you how to create the robot in 3ds Max.

Ignace Aleya from Tolerated Cinematics takes you through the steps to create a pretty cool looking 3D Pokémon title using both Adobe After Effects and MAXON Cinema 4D.

The first Video Copilot show is up and running!  Andrew Kramer and the gang show us how to make an awesome Superhero landing.

Animator Lee Daniels shows us an easy way to create ground shadows on 2D characters in Adobe After Effects.

Chad Ashley from Greyscalegorilla explains “the correct workflow for doing Depth of Field and Motion Blur in After Effects…(that doesn’t) result in artifacts or other anomalies.”

Taha Dalal takes you through the steps needed to create his animated font “EVOLVE” using Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects.  Plus he is offering the EVOLVE animated font template for free!

Caleb Ward shows us how to make a blazing hot ball of fire in Adobe After Effects.

Should you transcode before Color Grading in Adobe Premiere?  Jarle Leirpoll puts that question to the test and lays to rest some misconceptions.

Motion Array shows you how to create a 3D-like camera move on 2D images using displacements in After Effects,

If you’ve had a chance to check out our NAB Survival Video, you should! It’s lots of fun. I dove back into Cinema 4D to create the NAB Survival Video Open.

oday we’ll look at two easy tricks to put your keyframes at ease (full of jokes today). I’ve always found that setting up a ‘base’ animation is a great to way to make headway on a project - especially with a tight deadline. Then I like to circle back and use these two tricks and expressions to “sweeten” up the animation.

Mikey Borup shows us how to create 3d topographical maps in Adobe After Effects.

“In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create an 8K environment map—entirely in After Effects—using the plugin Skybox, by Mettle.” - Charles Yeager

In this tutorial, Kris Truini covers the process of creating some awesome shock waves/heat distortion waves in After Effects to add impact to your VFX.

“Hey guys in this tutorial we will learn how to make some really cool and advanced 3d text morphing using a third party plugin named trapcode particular it’s gonna be very exciting and fun so i hope you will learn something new today!” - Dope Motions

In this quick tip video by Robert Zinke, you’ll learn how to link the focus distance of your camera to a 3D layer in Adobe After Effects.

In this After Effects Tutorial w/ Mikey you will learn how to see like Arnold. Well, to create Terminator Vision...

In this tutorial from Gardner Raymond of Consequence Video Designs we will learn how to whip up some dynamic 3D motion with a couple great tools!

In this tutorial Rampant Design CEO and Lead Creative Sean Mullen Shows Us How to Use Distortion Effects to Add Dynamic Effects to Your Edit in Adobe Premiere Pro.

"Gardner Raymond shows off the flexibility of Newton 2 as more than just a 2D dynamics engine." - Lester Banks

Charles Yeager shows us how to make a tiny planet from 360° footage utilizing Mettle Skybox, Element 3D, and Adobe After Effects in these 2 tutorials.

Envato Market is offering a free 10 part tutorial on Adobe After Effects for beginners.  Watch the introduction video here and follow the links to the full course.  This is a great course for the user who is just starting to learn After Effects.  This course comes complete with downloadable project files and an AE Cheat Sheet.

Learn how to create the popular plexus look in After Effects using Plexus v2 & Cinema 4D; Create 3D objects and bring them into Plexus using the OBJ format.

This week's Tutorial Tuesday focuses on training for CINEMA 4D. In this tutorial, Mt. Mograph’s Matt Jylkka creates a flat, 2D-style 3D animation using CINEMA 4D and After Effects.

Product Manager Martin Brennand shows you how to track and replace an actor’s eyes when they accidentally look at the camera Using After Effects and mocha AE

Get inspired by images from NASA and build a realistic 3D nebula in After Effects using both Trapcode and HitFilm.

Roei Tzoref looks at the difference between rendering in After Effects and using Media Encoder to get the most out of encoding your H.264 Video.

In this tutorial, Niall Horn provides a step-by-step breakdown for his awesome Space Pyramid shot. Here you will learn how RealFlow is used alongside 3ds Max, Krakatoa, Frost, After Effects and Vray.

“In this tutorial, Dave Werner shows us how to make a puppet move and talk using Adobe Character Animator, included in After Effects CC 2015.” - CG Terminal

In this tutorial, Tim Harris will show you how to create a whirlpool in Adobe After Effects using FreeForm Pro V1.75.

Learn how to create a basic scene in 3d Studio Max with part 1 of a 2 part tutorial series from Envato Tuts+.

Dominic Pons explains how to create a low-poly Christmas tree scene in After Effects using Trapcode Tao.

Take a bland, colorless sky and make it into a vault of heaven! Create an alluring azure sky with fluffy clouds, a sublime sunset or an moody moonlight scene. I’ll give several options, utilizing plug-ins from CoreMelt, Video Copilot, Boris FX, Red Giant, SUGARfx and Imagineer.

This one is from a while back but Michele Yamazaki has some great compositing tips from the book  “Greenscreen Made Easy!” There's a new edition coming out in 2016!

"In this tutorial we are going to use Newton in combination with Illustrator to break down/destroy objects within After Effects. You are going to learn how to use Newton 2, Time-Remapping, Masks and the Knife tool within Illustrator and much more." - ArmaganVideos

Adobe After Effects Certified Expert, Jeff Sengstack, present this video tutorial introduction to After Effects Particle World.

If you’re animating some characters and need to make a natural looking walk cycle quickly and easily, do we have some great resources for you! Here is some reference, tutorials and scripts to make your next walk cycle animation a breeze.

Paul Hatton takes a look at V-Ray’s render elements and how to composite them into After Effects.

This tutorial by Lee Daniels shows an easy way to create flapping insect wings using either the wiggle or loop out expressions and is good for beginners.

Mikey Borup shows us how to create a super fun effect that can be used for a FUI (fake user interface).

We were asked via Twitter: “Is there a plug-in in existence that allows me to render in AE (in the background) while I continue to work in AE?” Here is a great solution for Adobe Creative Cloud users. We also have a solution for those of you who only have After Effects or are working in an older version of the software.

Question: I am very inspired by Andrew McMurry’s work in the Visual Effects/ Media Arts. I’d like to start making my own videos and bringing them to life. I was told by a Visual Effects distributor to ask you some questions on some recommended software, or apps that could point me in the right direction.

Follow along as Eran Stern enters the mind of a woman; creating both a tunnel vision effect and a dream like scene, that can be used separately or together, by applying a few After Effects tricks.

Film Riot has created a clever short film entitled U.F.Oh Yeah, Directed and written by Ryan Connolly and starring Josh Connolly, the film is about a U.F.O. enthusiast and conspiracy theorist who has an encounter with extraterrestrials that doesn’t go quite as one might expect. After the film, learn about how some of the effects were made. There are a whole series of videos here and they’re fantastic!!

Did you miss the mesmerizing dancing and streaking greens and purples in the northern sky last night? Not only will you get scientific background on the aurora borealis, but today I present some inspiring time-lapse of auroras and methods to make them yourself in Adobe After Effects!

In this simple After Effects tutorial, Imagineer System’s Mary Poplin shows you how to add realistic rain to a shot with plug-ins from Boris FX and mocha AE.Mary uses the bundled mocha AE CC for planar tracking and masking and Boris Continuum Complete BCC Rain.

Join Ben Brownlee of Curious Turtle as he gives some great advice on using Imagineer mocha with After Effects. Ben really knows his mocha.

Paul Ezzy shows you how to mimic the film noir, graphic novel stylized of Robert Rodriguez’s “Sin City: Dame To Kill” with Boris Continuum Complete 9 in Adobe AE.

Does the new AE seem buggy when previewing?  It’s all in how the start and stop keys affect it’s behavior.  This article on Pro Video Coalition explains how it works and why it really isn’t buggy at all.

Rampant Design CEO and Lead Creative Sean Mullen Shows Us How to Create Monster Effects Using Adobe After Effects and Imagineer Systems Mocha AE.

A quick way to make slant sway in the breeze. also, no keyframes, so thats cool. just a quick expression. Enjoy.” - AE Tutorials with Mikey

How do you make a jump cut look smooth without covering it up?  Use the Timewarp filter in AE.  Learn how in this short tutorial from Tuts+.

“In this tutorial, we’ll be creating a brilliant looking title sequence which revolves a Fractured HUD (Head-Up Display) using After Effects.” - CG Terminal

Learn how to create the Death Stare effect from the horror classic The Ring!

How you can use mocha and mocha pro to help with the new face tracker tracking in After Effects 2015.

In this AskGSG Jake Vardaman asks us how to make this cool Sci-Fi fire look by Raoul Paulet using C4D.

Chris Lavelle shows us how he makes a depth map in C4D to use in After Effects with FreeForm Pro. It’s one way to make a Displacement Map that can be used by FreeForm Pro.

Learn how to create displaced heat waves in After Effects with this easy-to-learn technique.

Over 65 Useful Tricks in After Effects You May Not Know About by Sergei Prokhnevskiy.

Learn how to create an energized molecule effect using only built-in effects in this exclusive After Effects tutorial.

In this overview, Product Manager Martin Brennand takes you through how the bundled mocha AE complements the Adobe After Effects CC 2015 Face Tracker.

Learn how to create displaced heat waves in After Effects with this easy-to-learn technique.

Paul Ezzy from Boris FX shows you how to take a green screen ballarina and turn it into a hand drawn flipbook style sketch, complete with project file.

Watch Shanks FX "Petri Dish Planets" and then check out the tutorial on how he put the finishing touches on them in Adobe After Effects.

In this tutorial Andrew Kramer from Video Copilot shows you how to create an intricate deform animation using 3D Noise & Twist with Element 3D V2  inside After Effects.

This tutorial will help you get in tune with the Camera Navigation in Adobe After Effects!

Learn how important compositing is for your 3D renders, as every shot needs color correction and/or compositing, in this tutorial from Greyscalegorilla.

Ryan Snider of TangleWire.tv, shows you his customized compositing render pass that will allow you to make targeted color corrections, and changes to your C4D renders in Adobe After Effects.

Adobe Creative Cloud has a tool called "Mask Tracker" the is found in both Premiere Pro CC 2014 and After Effects CC 2014, that can be used to easily create masks.  After effects also has "mocha AE CC", a dedicated planar tracker that is similar to Mask Tracker, but also allows keyframe control, and has advanced features for dealing with some of the more difficult masking or tracking situations.Mary Poplin, from Imagineer Systems, shows you the similarities and differences between the "Mask Tracker" and the bundled "mocha AE CC."  Knowing which tool to use in which situation can help you save time and be more creative.

Does After Effects CC 2014.2 (13.2) crash on you?  One of these 2 fixes from Adobe may help clear up the problem.

Joey Korenman from School of Motion shows you how NUKE works better than After Effects when it comes to compositing, and how it can help you with your motion graphic designs.

Video Copilot's Andrew Kramer shows you how to create fun, animating polygons that you can easily customize using time displacement, scale wipes and other neat animation tricks.

Create and animate your own Paper Airplanes in After Effects. This tutorial will show you how with out any 3rd party plugins, plus it only uses the classic 3D engine and not the ray traced.

Daniel Brodesky shows how to create a hand crafted old time film feel to animation in Adobe After Effects.

Learn how to create an aurora effect using Trapcode Particular in AE.

In this tutorial TunnelvizionTV will teach you how to create a 3D Hologram Effect using After Effects and Trapcode Form. Trapcode form can be used to import 3D objects such as OBJ files into After Effects.

In this Quicktip, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how using Depth Maps to displace Trapcode Form particles can be used to create a 3D Point Cloud Representation of a city.  This tutorial was inspired by the brilliant Trapcode Form work of Jeremy Cox at Imaginary Forces, for the film “Terminator: Salvation.” Plus don’t miss out!  All Red Giant Products are 40% OFF for 24 hrs. only!

Since have a 2 day Red Giant and Trapcode Year End Sale starting tomorrow, I thought we’d bring you a few fun and useful tutorials for the products on sale. Here’s one from Premium Beat that will make your holiday spirits twinkle!

Class up your holiday graphics with a gorgeous 3D Spinning snowflake with glints of light reflecting off of it. Here’s a fairly popular tutorial from about 5 years ago that is just as relevant today.  Although all the software used has been updated, the formula is the same.

Chris McFall explains how to create a liquid mercury logo animation right in After Effects using mettle’s FreeForm Pro plug-in. Chris also reveals a few clever uses with filters that ship with After Effects, and some of his finishing techniques.

Download the free Repeater preset from Cinemaspice and then watch the tutorial from Mikey Borup explain the Expression Controller in After Effects.

Gardner Raymond shows how to do a Mask Morph between different mask shapes and making it look cool with Plexus, inspired by a video by Yen Hung Lin (Jeff).

Jeff Foster, aka Pixelpainter, explains setting up the Wacom Intuos tablet for the time consuming and often tedious job of rotoscoping in After Effects. If you are rotoscoping or painting in AE (or any program), I’d highly recommend using a Wacom. It will save your sanity! And, here’s an older tutorial from yours truly about setting up a Wacom tablet for CINEMA 4D.

If you work with both Adobe After Effects and Newtek LightWave, here are a few tutorials that may help with your workflow between the two programs.

Learn to create an effect inspired by Cyriak, where a creepy hand-crab monster projects from a person’s mouth.  This effect is very involved, with lots of rotoscoping, tracking and hand animation.  It's not for the feint of heart, but you will learn a ton.

Learn how to design, shoot and composite a head replacement shot. Think "Headless Horseman."  This is a fast paced tutorial design for advances users of mocha and After Effects.

Surfaced Studio teaches you how to smear a blood effect along a wall as your actor is sliding down, in After Effects.

This isn’t so much a tutorial as it is a walkthrough of the steps you can take to recreate the eyes of a White Walker from Game of Thrones!

In this tutorial, you will see several examples demonstrating frame rate conversion and mixed format issues and their solutions.

Shanks FX and PBS Digital Studios recreates the lightning effect with practical effects, and composited them in After Effects. I had no idea they did the effects this way. Genius!

Video Copilot offers up this great tutorial on how to make an LCD pixel screen with the CC Ball Action effect in AE. Plus learn how to create a realistic depth of field with just Camera Lens Blur and a depth map.  The CS6 project files are included.

Learn how to make floating glass shards with After Effects to create a unique looking title sequence.

It’s days 10 and 11 of 30 Days of After Effects from School of Motion in Sarasota, Florida. Joe explains how to use Cineware to set up a scene in a 3D environment. In the second part, he focuses on animating the dog in the room with an expression.

Super Shape Morphing sounds like fun! Joey explains how to hand-craft some animation and work with keyframes in After Effects.

Get tips and techiniques from Sean Frangella for "working with 3D cameras in After Effects, including changing focal length, parenting cameras to nulls, cutting between multiple cameras, roving keyframes, and linking depth of field."

Joey shows you how to re-create his go-to animation trick. Kyle Predki, Joey's friend from Toil, came up with the move, hence the name. It's the bouncy, fun text animation that you can see in the first few seconds of the video.

In the tutorial below, Mikey Borup explains how to create a morph with the After Effects Liquify tool and no other third-party plug-ins.

This is from Day 7 of 30 Days of After Effects from the School of Motion at Ringling College of Art & Design. Joey explains one of the basics of using 3D Objects in After Effects, some tricks and animation principles.

Follow the technique in this After Effects tutorial to animate text around the edges of a 3D object.The tutorial covers:3D Anchor PointsEasy-Ease KeyframesKey-framing CamerasSnapping Vertexes Together

Want to create cool looking Sci-Fi effects in AE? Then check out this tutorial from Matthew Pearce as he explains how he created some of his favorite effects.

The 3D Pre-Compose Script makes it easy to pre-compose 3D-aware layers in After Effects by automatically copying all cameras & lights into the new comp with linked expressions! Just watch the tutorial to see all the amazing possibilities! Plus the script is Free!

It’s day 4 of 30 Days of After Effects from School of Motion in Sarasota, Florida. Learn to take a photograph and make it into a 3D scene and fool everyone.

Here’s a tutorial for creating titles inspired by the “Dracula: Untold” movie trailer.  Bats, smoke, lighting effects, all made completely with in After Effects with first party plugins.

It’s day 3 of 30 Days of After Effects from School of Motion in Sarasota Florida. Learn to efficiently use After Effects Expressions to rig up some gears.

Here is day 2 of the School of Motion’s 30 Days of Motion. This one was inspired by GMUNK’s sci-fi ORA Prophecy piece and shows you some of the powerful options of the often overlooked Polar Coordinates filter.

School of Motion is doing a 30 Days of After Effects Day 1, explaining how to easily create a write on effect and make it look like a real paintbrush.

This is a two part tutorial on how to create a highly detailed human Iris using the FreeForm Pro plugin by Mettle.

Alex from Zaxwerks explains how to create some cool animated sports banners with Zaxwerks 3D Flag, which incidentally, is on sale through July 1, 2014!

Andrew Kramer uses 100% After Effects, no third-party plug-ins, to create this shockwave effect using Fractal Noise.

Ben Watts has a new tutorial up showing how to create an otherworldly rocky terrain in CINEMA 4D and After Effects. Ben says, "In this tutorial we'll build up a displaced surface using layered noise maps. After that we'll create a wet looking surface & water shader for the deep section. Finally we'll take care of some basic lighting & colour correction in After Effects."

Do you need to make some small fixes to the skin of your actor, like fixing a blemish or blotchiness? Here’s part 1 of a 2 part series on Skin Retouching and Digital Makeup to get you started!

Mustapha Fersaoui shows how to create a realistic rain scene with Photoshop and After Effects using a lot of plug-ins that ship with AE, plus some Optical Flares and Red Giant Mojo.

Joren from The Pixel Lab shows the workflow of working with footage tracked with The Foundry’s CAMERATRACKER in After Effects and then bringing that footage into MAXON CINEMA 4D. 

Gardner Raymond explains how to create a cool magnified effect and the titles from the film The Art of Flight, using Rowbyte Plexus in After Effects.

It’s easy to create a video texture inside of 3D text within Adobe After Effects CC.

Pro Video Coalition has a great article up written by ChrisZwar. Its an overview on the power of the ability to create 3D layers and work with them using After Effects’ Virtual Camera tool.

In this tutorial, Matthew Perks will show you how compose a green screen shot with a moving camera. He will also show you how to make an accurate 3D shadow of the subject, which really helps to sell the shot.

Alex over at Zaxwerks hosted a recent tutorial thats getting a lot of attention. In it he uses ProAnimator to move 3D OBJ models into Adobe After Effects in a few simple steps!

Victoria Nece explains the open source software GIS, Geographic Information Systems, to make mapping jobs easier.

Lee Daniels gives a general overview of animating a face from a layered Photoshop file in After Effects.

Let Joren from The Pixel Lab show you how to properly set up your depth passes so that you can do your DOF in Adobe After Effects!

Ran Ben Avraham shows us how to create a Lizard Man transformation in After Effects with FreeForm Pro. Ran motion tracks a sequence and then he uses FreeForm Pro to wrap the texture of his choice around the actors face in 3D.In Part 2 you will learn how to 2D track different parts of the face in Mocha. You'll apply that info to the texture that has been created.View Part 1

Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday! This is a Tuesday Two-fer… A Tutorial + Inspiration. “After Effects Tutorials with Mikey” creates the double exposure in True Detective. Really nice!

Andrew and the gang bring us another fantastic tutorial. This one goes through the process of making a techy looking grid title animation inside of After Effects.

Ran Ben Avraham walks you through turning a human man into a Lizard Man with After Effects and Mettle FreeForm Pro. He motion tracks his footage and wraps the serpentine texture around the actors head with FreeForm Pro.

Angie Taylor shares this fun AE tutorial, inspired by a paper trick from her grandpa.

Dino Muhic creates a beautiful fluid looking water effect, inspired by a Beck’s commercial in Germany. Dino used a lime from Video Copilot 3D Model Pack - Fresh Food.First, he builds it from scratch and then explains how to composite it. He also created a preparation video to show how the water looks on its own.

Ryan Boyle of Sketchy Pictures explains the full process from character design, expressions for animating movement, lip-sync, lighting and camera and lots more!

Here are several tutorials that give After Effects users that chunky, retro, 8-bit, posterized look, with or without plug-ins.

Tilt shift makes your video and images look miniature, like toys. In this project, they use Posterize time, Camera Lens Blur, CC Light Sweep and Fast Blur to create the effect.

Andrew Kramer animates the Twitter logo with the Puppet Tool in Adobe After Effects.

Felt Tips at AE Tuts+ has a fantastic, in depth 50 minute tutorial on fixing issues with Expressions.

VinhSon Nguyen shows a cool, basic technique that you can use to create unique and interesting forms for titles, background elements and more.

Martin Brennand shares some of the daily tips that are posted to Twitter and Facebook by Imagineer Systems.

Here is a very simple technique to create super quick garbage mattes in AE!

If you've been using Adobe After Effects since early versions, as I have, you are familiar with the idea of optimizing your machine and settings for premium performance. Here are some tips and resources to help you create the fastest and most solid After Effects you can. If you don't have a big budget for optimizing your system, where do you put the money for upgrades? That's for you to decide, but here are some suggestions on how to optimize what you have, and about other ways to optimize. If this article can't help you with the speed of After Effects, it will hopefully explain why things aren't running as fast as you would like them to.

If your greenscreen footage didn’t turn out as perfectly as you had hoped, here are some things that you can do to fix problems and not create new ones.

Let’s start Tutorial Tuesday with a groovy 1970’s throwback, the lava lamp! The tutorial is from Mikey Borup at Premium Beat. This tutorial is for beginners and covers things like fast blur and levels. They also go over Motion Sketch and the Light Sweep plug-in.

You know the open for the sitcom "Community", with the crumpled paper? Trevor Penner explains how to do this effect.

Imagineer has a new tutorial up that covers tracking an iPhone screen. Mary Poplin gives detailed instructions on the process both in video form and in words, so you can go at your own pace.

Adobe.tv has posted Andrew Kramer’s presentation from NAB 2013, showing his VFX title sequence for the Revolution TV Series. Learn from the master!

Follow along as Tudor “Ted” Jelescu shows you how to use Adobe After Effects to create an out-of-this-world 3D Sci-Fi Panel!

This is A Story of Hope by Funky Medics. Dave Legion made this nifty project for the FH Foundation. He use Adobe After Effects with Mettle’s FreeForm + MamoWorld’s Lip Sync.

Learn how to use mocha and After Effects to track graphics and effects. 3D Camera solve and object tracking which can then be exported to After Effects to drive the Plexus particle plug-in. Clip courtesy Artbeats.com

Learn how to create this beautiful effect using After Effects and starfield timelapse footage.

Follow along with Chris Lavelle as he shows you the “In’s & Out’s” of Mette FreeForm Pro!

Terry White of Adobe Creative Cloud TV gives you the rundown on some key essentials to getting started with Adobe Photoshop CC.

Todd Kopriva gives some tips on migrating to the new update for AE CC.

VFX Flight Instructor Andrew Kramer teaches you how to use After Effects & JetStrike to create intense aerial photography through dynamic compositing & animation.

TypeMonkey is an evolutionary new approach to creating kinetic typography for video and film productions. It allows for an endless range of keyframeless, completely customizable solutions in seconds, generated entirely within Adobe After Effects. It’s powerful, intuitive and even a little bit addicting. Not only is it now available at Toolfarm, we also have a couple tutorials for it from aescripts!

A new one from Andrew and Company, just in time for Tutorial Tuesday at Toolfarm. He shows how to create a dynamic spectral animation without using any party plug-ins.

It’s Tutorial Tuesday once again! Shawn Sheehan contributed this tutorial on AE Expressions to AE Tuts+ yesterday. He explains how to use the loopIn and loopOut expressions.

We continue with Tutorial Tuesday with this fun video tutorial from AE Tuts+. Shawn Sheehan demonstrates the Offset effect combined with comp-to-comp expressions, plus a little time-remapping to create a parallax effect, without a 3D camera or Z-depth of any kind.

It’s Tutorial Tuesday! This is part 1 in a 15 part series called Talking Toons. “Shaders are best used for Props, Particle FX, Organic and Hard Surface Objects, The Relationship Editor’s role, which Lights work best for Toon Shading, Normal Maps, Displacement Maps and the methods we will be using in the following episodes to come.”

Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday. AE Tuts+ has a new tutorial on speeding up renders in After Effects.

Chris Martin, Freefxtutorials.com, one of Toolfarm’s affiliates, shows how to motion track footage using After Effects CC’s powerful new camera tracker to get a 3D solution, then send it back to AE for compositing and final render.

Tutorial Tuesday is upon us once again. Frederik Steinmetz at AE Tuts+ explains how to use AE to create tileable textures, using non-destructive Adjustment Layers and Curves to get the correct lighting.

Post by Joshua Lester at AEtuts+: "This Quick Tip will show how to manipulate footage of an eye to create the illusion that the Iris or Pupil is dilating. Using the Bulge Effect and simple motion tracking, the final product is quick and demonstrates how to use these simple tools."

Post at Motion Squared: "In this short tutorial, we take a look at how to create a cloth unroll effect /animation using the cloth dynamics tag in Cinema 4D. Enjoy!"

"In this tutorial you’ll be creating a full motion graphics 3D animation for a disco party. You’ll start by creating some basic models and deforming them. We’ll dig quite deeply in shading to achieve some detailed and organic textures. Finally, we’ll animate all the elements in an attractive way and create a rotating camera to follow the whole scene. We’ll finish up in After Effects where we’ll add some sexiness to the animation." - Daniel Lorenzo of cgtuts+

"In this tutorial we’ll discuss how to setup a network for multi-machine rendering in After Effects and how we can take advantage of watch folders to help automate the process." - Post by James Whiffin of Aetuts+

By Vic Garcia. Create a Chase Scene in C4D using Multiple Cameras, Stage Object and importing into After Effects CC using the Cineware plugin.

One of the changes in After Effects CC (12.0) regards when activation occurs, and this affects how you install render-only instances of the After Effects application, known as render engines. Todd Kopriva of Adobe goes into detail on the new process.

Jorrit Schulte of AETuts+ explains how to convert stabilization from the Warp Stabilizer to regular After Effects keyframes. His technique will work for the position, scale, rotation, and perspective methods. Learn how to manipulate the keyframe data to achieve better results.

An advanced tutorial covering mocha v3’s 3D camera solver and Adobe after Effects. Mary Poplin creates a HUD style graphic in 3D space.

In case you missed it, Imagineer recorded this past week’s webinar with Mary Poplin, covering planar tracking techniques for digital makeup and removals.

Michal Fibek for AETuts+ shows you a cool trick for creating a POV Mirror Effect with After Effects and mocha. Hint: You’ll need newspapers and masking tape!

Daniel of AETUTS+ shows how to create a cool slideshow transition in After Effects

Dave Helmly has been working with Vision 3 for about year and half on this inexpensive plug-in to support our native tapeless formats in a Stereoscopic 3D workflow. This video will give you a general idea of how the plug-in works and some general guidance on setup.You can more info on the plug-in here: www.inv3.com/quicks3d

By Batuhan Türkay at AEtuts+: "In this tutorial we’ll take a look at the basic principles and behaviors of water in the case of forces being applied to it. We’ll be keyframing masks on solids to recreate a liquid movement."

Learn how to create a 3D cloud flythrough scene using Trapcode Horizon, in this tutorial from Felix Cremerius.

By Felix Cremerius on AEtuts+ "This tutorial explains the steps you need to take to convert an HDRI in Photoshop into a usable file in Trapcode Horizon to create a Skydome and populate it with clouds. We’ll also explained how to mask clouds, create a camera move in AE, and add a complimentary lens flare to the scene."

Felt Tips, secret agent and VFX artist, gives a 90 minute, 6 part series about “Understanding Layer Space Transforms in AE and Manipulating 3D Space with Expressions”. Felt Tips gives a great presentation. He's very articulate and explains it with great care and interesting graphics. Good stuff!

In today’s tutorial, new Cgtuts+ author Mario Brajdic will introduce you to working with displacement and deformers in Cinema 4D and show you how this powerful combination can be used in conjunction with custom materials, lighting, and post effects to create some truly unique and visually stunning results.

Just in case you didn’t catch the mocha AE webinar for planar motion tracking and AE workflows, here is the recording! We hope you learn something!

Check out these free new tutorials at Cineversity that explore upcoming C4D/ AE integration features.

By Jorrit Schulte at AEtuts+. "We’ll be looking at creating a chalk-style scribble based on an image. We’ll be creating masks to make the lines using both manual and automatic techniques. From there we’ll animate the drawing on, and create a wiping animation which leaves smudges on the screen."

In this tutorial Nik Morris will show you how to take animated pixel art and incorporate it into large HD videos while retaining the original quality!

Post by Stefan Surmabojov at CGtuts+ :  “In this tutorial we are going to create a Valentine’s Day themed animation in Cinema 4D and After Effects.... Use particles and forces in Cinema 4D, as well as MoDynamics and Effectors to put everything together to create our final animation. Finally we’ll add materials, light and render the scene before finishing it up in After Effects with some compositing and post effects."

By Emanuele Fiorito at AEtuts+: "In this tutorial we will see how to work some expressions to create your own preset that you can apply to achieve a stop motion effect for hundreds of photos."

Dylan Winter demonstrates how you can expand After Effects towards the premise of Effectors in Cinema 4D. "If you ever wished that you could take advantage of some of Cinema 4D’s powerful effector tools while working in After Effects, your wish may now be granted. Using some clever scripting and a basic control system, we’re going to rig up our very own effectors within After Effects".

Post by Stefan Surmabojov at AEtuts+: "In this tutorial series we are going to go beyond basics using the true power of shape layers inside After Effects. As you can see we are going to dive into the magic of creating this Iron Man battle widget inspired from The Avengers movie. We are going to recreate the element from start to finish using various different techniques and learning some pretty cool workflow tips as well."Parts 1 & 2Parts 3, 4 & 5

Check out this great new example and tutorial by Andrew Kramer at Video Copilot: “Here is another fun example using Element 3D with live action footage and 3D Camera tracking… for the explosion, I used some Action Essentials 2 along with some colored lights to create the fire illumination.

This is a good one for the newbies to Adobe After Effects: 5 tips to quickly and effectively create keyframes in After Effects.

Post by Stephen Petrany at PSDtuts+ : "Photoshop CS6 includes several new features that you can use to create 3D and video effects. In this tutorial, we will combine these new tools to simulate 3D depth in a 2D photograph using the new 3D and video timeline features available in Photoshop CS6 Extended."

On Wednesday, June 27, 2012, Michele Yamazaki tapped Boris Continuum Complete v8 AE’s state-of-the-art particle system effects to develop and enhance broadcast graphics in Adobe After Effects CS6. Using BCC Particle Emitter 3D and other Boris Continuum Complete VFX filters in conjunction with After Effects’ native 3D camera and lighting systems, Michele made ordinary graphics and titles pop off the screen in 3D particle bursts.

The always entertaining Stu Maschwitz explains a few ways you can do to get the most out of After Effects. For example, “I set Levels of Undo to 99, because why should I expect to have fewer problems than Jay-Z?”

Posted by Andrew Kramer at Video Copilot. In this tutorial we will go beyond basic keying techniques with new tips to help preserve small details like dirt and reflections. • Key out footage without eliminating the soft reflections • Composite in 32bpc for more realistic blending

Posted by Daniel Gies on Vimeo: "This is a really quick overview of one method to approach head rotations and Blink animations. It is not a definitive method, but if your character design suites the process it can be quite effective.I just skim over the expressions and property linking so if you need a more detailed overview of linking sliders to layer attributes check out my earlier tutorial on Using Sliders."