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Pixelated Graphics (16-bit mosaic effect) – Adobe After Effects Tutorial

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So you like retro graphics BUT you have a really fancy pants vector style? How about we use an adjustment to fix that right up! It’s fast, simple, and scalable. It’s a delight. You’ll be throwing haddokens in no time. Let’s get into it and get you retro hip with this old school video game crap.

Easy Glitches (The Transform Effect) – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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There’s an effect for that? There sure is. And you can use it to make cool glitches. It’ll be fun and you’ll learn a thing or two. Let’s dive in and never mind how Canadian I look… glitches.

Fractal and Turbulent Noises – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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Fractal Noise or Turbulent Noise? What’s the difference and when should I use each or either of those effects? Well… never and always. I’ll talk you through the differences, similarities and what to do with these and… a noisy noise annoys an oyster.
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Venetian Blinds – Adobe After Effects Lesson

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What are Venetian Blinds in After Effects? Asside from a good way to keep your neighbours from seeing what exactly you do at night? It’s a rad effect and I’ll show you what it is, what it does, how it be. You know what I’m saying? No. No one does.

Morph Text From Regular to Bold – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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Morph your text shapes from regular weight to bold, black, italics, whatever. Simple steps and you can repeat and solve most problems that might come up.

BUT it’s not a perfect solution and you MAY have to do manual fixing. If you do have to fix it manually work backwards and try not to cry. The not crying is the most important because I have no tolerance for frustrated people having been one myself my whole life… it frustrates me!

Twitch and Slide Motion – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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The twitch and slide movement is for bringing in new elements and making rapic changes less jarring. Perfect for syncopating to music and hard beats. Learn how to master this very hip and with it motion tequnique and apply it to many properties, and not just the standard transformations of the layers.

Presets! (what’s the deal with those anyway?) – Adobe After Effects Tutorial

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Ready… set… PRESET! Get ready to save time, and by extension money and sanity with these little beauties. Not much is known about the elusive preset… until now… with his brief cursory overview.

Speed Ramp Footage (Time Remapping)- Adobe After Effects tutorial

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Speed ramping, the smooth transition from normal speed, to fast speed, to slow speed, isn’t that hard. At least, it’s not that hard for me. Maybe it is for you. And after you watch this it won’t be that hard for you either… I hope. Also now you can show off your rad sk8boarding tricks and nunchucking and breaking things in your back yard…. speed ramp with care though and don’t hurt yourself trying to be cool. Cause that’s not cool. Except that chicks dig scars… oh they don’t? Darn.

Working From Illustrator To After Effects – Adobe After Effects Tutorial

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Today we talk about how to take files from illustrator to after effects. We cover some of the neuances, pitfalls and exciting new features after effects offers to the illustrator user and abuser…. abuse is not cool. Don’t do that.

Learn to Better use the Camera in Adobe After Effects

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The camera layer is a wily one. But you can tame it with a little planning and a null object. Pretty soon you’ll be whizzing around like Harry Potter at a quidich match. Or whatever that game is called. It’s not like I have a griffindor tattoo on my butt or anything.