After Effects (824 Tutorials)
Element 3D: Beyond Basics; Importing Objects & Building Materials, Extruding Masks & Text
July 17, 2012
New Video Copilot Element 3D Tutorials: Beyond the Basics: Everything you need to know to get started! Importing Objects & Building Materials: C4D tips, OBJ exporting and more!
Color Isolation Effect with Magic Bullet Colorista II
July 2, 2012
Michele Yamazaki from Toolfarm explains a couple of cool tricks that you can do with color in Red Giant Software Magic Bullet Colorista II, a robust tool made for color correcting footage. </p>
Michele Yamazaki’s Particles Webinar Replay -June 27, 2012
June 28, 2012
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.
How is mocha v3’s Camera Solver different than AE CS6 Camera Tracker?
June 13, 2012
Imagineer Systems mocha Camera Solve module uses Planar Tracking to solve 3D space for select planes. This means mocha can get a camera solve on difficult out of focus, blurred or obscured shots. Learn more in these tutorials.
Fantastic Facial Motion Capture in After Effects
May 14, 2012
Post by Matthew Perks/ AEtuts+. Use puppet pins tracked to motion data from dots on a face to animate a face or other objects in your scene.
Pimp Your After Effects by Stu Maschwitz
November 20, 2011
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?”
Cinema 4D Scene OBJ Export to Trapcode Form
November 11, 2011
How to create a scene in Cinema 4D and export an OBJ and Cinema’s camera, import all this in Adobe After Effects so the Cinema render matches Trapcode Form.
Advanced Soft Keying
October 17, 2011
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
Digieffects FreeForm AE Tutorial #2
October 12, 2011
Mark Christiansen shows you how to make flowing cloth with Displacement Mapping with FreeForm AE.
Digieffects FreeForm AE Tutorial #1
October 12, 2011
Mark Christiansen gets you started with Displacement Mapping with FreeForm AE and shows you how to make some incredible effects with Digieffects FreeForm AE.
Ocean Water Effect presentation by Aharon Rabinowitz
October 4, 2011
Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create this ocean scene in Adobe After Effects with only the tools found in AE.
How to make a Cinemagraph with Photoshop and After Effects
September 27, 2011
An interesting technique where a portion of a still image is animated. Some are very cool, some are creepy! Animated GIFs live!!
Basic Head rotations using 3D Layers, Distortion Mesh & Expressions in After Effects
September 14, 2011
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.”
Red Giant Quicktip #15: Trapcode Form City
June 27, 2011
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.”
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