Flying Blobs to Liquid Letters – Adobe After Effects tutorial

Reveal letters with liquid blobs and a BONUS trick to use onion skinning in after effects. It’s dirt simple and sadly there is no trick to to making this clean look, but this will save you time. The usual method for this thing is to go into photoshop and draw there, but this is all in After Effects. Jazz up your workflow with this rad tip and get making these awesome animations.

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White Extruded Text (like that Mockingjay Teaser Text)- Adobe After Effects tutorial

You ever see that teaser for the Hunger Games Mocking Jay, the one with the white text slowly extruding. It looks great, and this is how to make that in Adobe After Effects.

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Flying Liquid Teardrop Blobs – Adobe After Effects tutorial

Make liquid blobs fly around the frame. I’m sure you’ve seen this before and if you’ve tried particle systems, and just plain drawing it, then you need this lovely solution that uses other paths as guides but still tricks the computer into doing most of the work for you. It’s great.

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Fancy Banners (maybe for wedding videos?)- Adobe After Effects tutorial

Fancy banners for fancy events. Weddings, Bar-mitzvahs, Quinceaneras, really anything you might hire someone to videograph instead of “film”. Or if you are a wedding videographer maybe you can throw these into the mix, I don’t know. Do what you feel.

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Connect Dots – Adobe After Effects tutorial

Want to connect some dots? Well I’ll clear up how to do that and connect the dots on how to connect some dots? Wow that’s terrible. I could really use some help writing these descriptions.

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Signs Over People – Adobe After Effects Tutorial

You want to put a sign over someone that’s tracked to their head, but they keep moving around and you don’t have a 3d object tracker? Don’t worry about it! With this method you don’t need one and you can still get all that awesome real rotation you want with no extra cost!

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

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.

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

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.

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Animation PreProduction – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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.

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

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.

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