Evan Abrams | 2014 March

Extrude & Layer Text with RayTrace 3d – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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Extrude layered text with the RayTrace 3d settings in Adobe After Effects. You don’t need fancy pants plugins like “element”. If you like that kind of thing go nuts, but you have Open GL rendering already, it’s right here! And this tutorial will show you it’s most basic application and some tips on making it look rad. You like that right? rad things that are 3d? Everyone love 3d. It’s like… way more D? That sounds strange now that I say it out loud.

Long Shadows (with the repeater) – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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Long shadows are so hot right now. Here is a quick and easy way to make some using the repeater and some shape layers, ANY shape layer. It’s not the same as using a drop shadow that’s for sure. This is for making LOOOOOOoooooOOong Shadows and is an ironically short tutorial.

Animation PreProduction – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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Before you make awesome animation you must plan awesome animation, and this is how. We talk briefly about the steps for organizing and honing your project from script, A/V Script, storyboard, and animatic. Along the way all the crap should be filtered out before you waste time making bad motion graphics.

Roving Keyframes (or roved, or roves) – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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Roving keyframes smooth out your motion and you might not have ever heard of them. There were so many roving jokes I should have done in here from Irish folk songs to dog jokes but I opted for none of them, you are welcome. This is just a strait up lesson on how to use a roved keyframe and what you can use it for and why.