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.
You've probably seen the film title effect, where the text of the title blows away like sand or dust. e.g. "Traffic" (the 2000 version) & "The Mummy" films. Here's how to do it in After Effects!
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.
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