Sine Wave Hair (and more!) – Adobe After Effects tutorial
Make the edges of your shapes into lovely regular sine waves with control and ease. Use classic techniques with new 2018 features in this after effects tutorial. Feel the wind in your hair. Or at least feel the sine waves in your shapes.
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Dynamically Resizing Line of Shapes – Adobe After Effects tutorial
Create a dynamically resizing line of shapes in after effects. Each shape reacts to it’s neighbours. As one gets larger the others get smaller. We use some clever expression and a few null objects to make the process very easy.
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If Else Conditional Expression
Learn the basics of the If/Else conditional expression. It’s a great way to have After Effects choose between two or even more options based on inputs. This covers the basics of the expression and some examples of how it works.
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Make Templates with Essential Graphics in Adobe After Effects
Create quick and easy templates in After Effects for use in Premiere. If you sell templates or make use of templates in your workflow, this is for you. We go through the full process from nothing to a working, dynamic template quickly, easily, with only the… essentials?
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Grainy Gradient Effect – Adobe After Effects tutorial
Grainy Gradients cannot be more popular. Here is how to make this look with effects completely in after effects. This is one of many methods for making this look. We might use layer styles. We might use blending modes. BUT this uses effects and it’s pretty dang good.
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EASY 3-Panel Montage Motion Graphics- Adobe After Effects tutorial
Easily make a 3-panel montage in your motion graphics pieces. Or 4 panels. Or 5? It could be any number of panels for your motion graphics montage. What’s important is the montage… and the motion. It’s super simple, expandable, and flexible. I’m sure you’ll love it.
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Isometric Projections in Adobe After Effects (SSR Method)
Isometric Projections! Make some in After Effects. You COULD extrude some things in 3d and get close to this look. But we’re doing it for real! Real Isometric Projections! The least real kind of 3d drawing! We use the tried and true SSR method. That’s scale, skew and rotate!
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Angled Logo Reveal – Adobe After Effects tutorial
Animate on an angled logo with shape layers in after effects. We use shape layers to build up the typography of a logo very similar (totally ripped off of) to the very stylish and hip AJ+ logo. Give it a try with your own initials!
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Random Triangle Transition – Adobe After Effects tutorial
Reveal any layer with a random cascade of triangles! Triangles may be the strongest shape, but now they’re the most random. Transition anything in After Effects with his technique.
Sadly this is only meant to be used with right angle triangles. If people want it, we’ll get into using equilateral triangles… I promise 🙂
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Curly Paper – After Effects Tutorial
Make realistic moving curly paper. Perfect for paper lists, paper scrolls, paper… papers? So long as it’s curly and those paper curls bounce, stretch and squash, you can use this technique to make it happen. When I’m not talking through it, the whole process is really fast.
This tutorial makes use of Adobe After Effects and Adobe Illustrator. You can do the whole thing in After Effects if you like.
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