After Effects (824 Tutorials)

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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After Effects Video Tutorial: 3D Corner Text

September 2, 2014

Follow the technique in this After Effects tutorial to animate text around the edges of a 3D object.

The tutorial covers:

3D Anchor Points
Easy-Ease Keyframes
Key-framing Cameras
Snapping Vertexes Together

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Adobe After Effects Sci-Fi Effects

September 2, 2014

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.

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Adobe After Effects 3D Pre-compose Free Script + tutorial

September 2, 2014

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!

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MIDI Controlled Animation, Parts 1 & 2

August 26, 2014

It’s day 5 and 6 of 30 Days of After Effects from School of Motion in Sarasota, Florida. Learn to how to bring MIDI information into After Effects and animate with that data.

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3D Scene From a Still

August 26, 2014

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.

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Adobe After Effects Titles: Dracula Untold

August 18, 2014

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.

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Ya Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

August 18, 2014

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.

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Polar Coordinate Space Tunnel with After Effects

August 12, 2014

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.

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Write-on Effects in After Effects

August 12, 2014

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.

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Extreme Eye Closeup with Mettle FreeForm Pro

August 12, 2014

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

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