After Effects (759 Tutorials)

Head replacement with mocha and Adobe After Effects

October 21, 2014

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.

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Adobe After Effects Quick VFX – Blood Smear

October 21, 2014

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

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White Walker Eye Animation – Game of Thrones

October 7, 2014

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!

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Frame Rate Conversion and Mixed Formats

October 7, 2014

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

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Back to the Future Time Slice Effect #tbt

September 25, 2014

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!

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Adobe After Effects Pixel Screen Experiment

September 23, 2014

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.

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Broken Glass in Adobe After Effects

September 23, 2014

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

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Alex Dow of Zaxwerks on the RFShow

September 23, 2014

Alex Dow of Zaxwerks, the ProAnimator Guru, lets his talent run rampant on for RFShow.TV! Watch Alex display the power and simplicity of ProAnimator 8!

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3D Rooms with Cineware / AE and Automatic Follow Through

September 16, 2014

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.

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Super Shape Morphing in After Effects

September 16, 2014

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

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Top 5 3D Camera Tips for Adobe After Effects

September 16, 2014

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.”

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Everybody Do The Predki! (What!?)

September 16, 2014

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.

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Animated Cartoon Roto Shapes with mocha and After Effects

September 14, 2014

Mary Poplin, the Imagineer Product Specialist, shows how to make a cool animated cartoon look with Roto Shapes in mocha and After Effects. The tutorial uses a free script and the download link is below the video.

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After Effects Liquify Morph

September 14, 2014

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.

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Tricks with 3D Objects in AE

September 14, 2014

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.

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