Using Paths can give animated text a direction, literally. Richard Lainhart explores the basics of applying text animation on paths in Adobe After Effects CS5.
It doesn't take long to create some truly interesting and immersive liquid backgrounds using shape layers in Adobe After Effects. Toby Pitman dives in.
Want to create Hollywood-style explosions as seen in your favorite action/thriller movies? Using After Effects you can and Richard Lainhart shows you how. Get ready to detonate...
After Effects is very capable animation tool for both the "jointed" method and "squash-and-stretch" technique. Richard Lainhart pulls some effective character animation tricks out of the bag.
Shape Layers are one of the most underutilized areas of After Effects, despite there being amazing things you create using them. In this tutorial Toby Pitman outlines 3 incredible Shape Layer tricks.
In this 2 part After Effects Tutorial, Richard Lainhart demonstrates how to create the infamous hologram effect, as seen in Star Wars, on his friend and neighbour, Dream Theater's Jordan Rudess.
Have you ever been underwater (the sea or even in the bath) looking up as light rays illuminate the water? If, so you know how magical it can feel. Learn how to recreate this scene in After Effects.
It's a lot of fun using sound to drive animations in After Effects. In Part 2 of this series, Toby Pitman takes you deeper into Arrays, Variables and Controls to create stunning visual effects.
In this feature length article Richard Lainhart takes us through the 5 things every After Effects user needs to know. From organizational workflow ideas to practical and artistic tips. Read on...
In this 2-part Quick Tutorial, we're going to show you how to animate the effect of a logo being stenciled onto a surface with spray paint in After Effects.
A common film and television effect is that 'writing on a script title', so that it appears as if the title is being drawn or handwritten on the screen in realtime. This used to be done with tradition
In Part 1 of our tutorial, we began the process of turning a static 2D image into a 3D animation by opening the image and isolating each major section of the image onto its own layer in Photoshop.
In
Hello, sailors, and welcome to New York! These guys, probably shot in the 1930s, are going to help us learn how to bring static 2D images into an animated 3D space with Photoshop and After Effects. It
If you've checked out my Secrets of Particle Playground tutorial on macProVideo, you've seen that Particle Playground is a powerful, if little-known, tool for all kinds of advanced visual effects, esp
You've all seen the popular effect in film and TV titles where the title text is outlined by lights rays that shoot out from the edges of the characters, so that the title looks as if it's illuminated
One of Adobe After Effects' most important functions in film and video production is compositing. This is the combining of separate visual elements to create single integrated imagery, often for the p
In Jewish law, a boy becomes a man at age 13. The occasion is commemorated with a special ceremony called a Bar Mitzvah.
In Freiman law, every son's Bar Mitzvah is celebrated with an over-the-top vide
OK, who's this guy? I don't know either, but I don't think he's really Italian. However, he is going to be useful in helping to introduce you to After Effects' most basic color correction tools.
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One of the most important concepts that a new user must grasp, in order to do almost anything in Adobe After Effects, are keyframes and keyframing. While there are a few procedural, or rules-based,
What's with the turkey, you say? It's from the video we're using to introduce you to the concept of Time Remapping, a very powerful but somewhat obscure feature in Adobe After Effects that lets you ke
Everyone has his or her favorite key commands, and I'm no exception. Here are my five favorites for Adobe After Effects:
1. Fit To Frame
Command-Option-F (Mac)
Ctrl-Alt-F (Win)
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