After Effects (808 Tutorials)

Create a Liquid Metal Logo Animation with FreeForm Pro

November 25, 2014

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.

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After Effects Layer Control and a Free Repeater Preset

November 18, 2014

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

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Create a Mask Morph with Rowbyte Plexus

November 18, 2014

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).

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How Set-up a Wacom Tablet for AE or CINEMA 4D

November 17, 2014

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.

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Workflow between LightWave and After Effects #lightwave3d

November 17, 2014

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.

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Tiffen Dfx v4 – Using DFX in Video Applications

November 17, 2014

The focus is on the video and film plug-ins in Adobe After Effects (but the plug-in works in other video hosts as well). Lens distortion, color grades and blurs are covered, and a lot more.

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