Got After Effects? You've probably heard of Red Giant Software then. You may not be aware of their Misfire plug-in which, as Toby Pitman shows, does anything but what its name suggests.
Tracking used to be out of reach for video creatives on a standard Mac or PC. How times and tech have moved on! Clay Asbury shows off After Effects CS6's Tracker Panel, and just how good it can be!
Got Adobe After Effects? Already enjoying Particular and Form? Then you owe it to yourself to check out Mir by Trapcode, a new geometry-based plug-in for AE users to weave more magical visuals.
When Toby Pitman dishes out After Effects tutorials he goes into some serious depth! This article on using Trapcode Form by Red Giant comprises 42 images and 2 movies! Definitely one to check out!
Adding volumetric light effects (the halo or spot lights with dust particles for example) is easy in 3D applications. Toby Pitman shines a light on how to achieve these using After Effects CS6.
Take a tour of 4 new features in Adobe's After Effects CS6 with Clay Asbury. You'll learn about new features on: ray-traced 3D, importing from FCP, rolling shutter repair and more.
Creating awesome text effects can be done very easily in Adobe After Effects, if you know how. Toby Pitman shows how to create text so hot, it'll sizzle through your screen... Well... almost!
You've likely seen the popular motion graphics effect of video playing inside or behind a text layer. Clay Asbury pops open Adobe After Effects and reveals the steps needed to create it.
13 is unlucky for some, but certainly not for all of you After Effects users out there! Clay Asbury, Adobe After Effects expert trainer, reveals 13 of his tastiest tips for working in 3D.
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.
Lower third titles have become synonymous with a multitude of genres. With so many different styles available, Richard Lainhart shows how to create a typical animated documentary-style title.
In the 2nd part of this After Effects Tutorial, we continue learning how to create the infamous hologram effect, as seen in Star Wars, on his friend and neighbour, Dream Theater's Jordan Rudess.
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.
Space. The final frontier... Ever wanted to beam someone up (or away) Star Trek Style? Richard Lainhart takes you through this classic effect step-by-step in After Effects CS5.
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
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
After Effects CS5 now includes Digieffects FreeForm AE, a powerful 3D distortion plugin that can do all kinds of warps and displacements in true 3D space that have previously been unavailable in After