After Effects (818 Tutorials)
Nuke or After Effects for Compositing?
January 29, 2015
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.
Animated Polygon in After Effects
January 29, 2015
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 a Paper Airplane in After Effects.
January 13, 2015
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.
Hand Drawn, Old Film Animation Look in After Effects
December 30, 2014
Daniel Brodesky shows how to create a hand crafted old time film feel to animation in Adobe After Effects.
Re-creating the Lost Smoke Monster
December 19, 2014
In this Episode of Red Giant TV, Filmmaker/Motion Graphics artist Seth Worley will show you how to re-create the look of the Lost Smoke monster. Covered: Compositing, Masking, 3D tracking, Color Correction and some really cool Trapcode Particular techniques.
Aurora Effect with Adobe After Effects and Trapcode Particular
December 19, 2014
Learn how to create an aurora effect using Trapcode Particular in AE.
Replace a Bland, Overcast Sky with a Gorgeous Sky in After Effects
December 10, 2014
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.
After Effects (Trapcode Form) 3D Hologram Effect
December 9, 2014
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.
Creating a Particle Christmas Tree with Trapcode Particular
December 8, 2014
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!
Boris Continuum Spinning 3D Snowflake #TBT
November 28, 2014
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.