Repeat The Repeater (For Psychedelic Patterns!) – Adobe After Effects tutorial

Want to see the same thing over and over again? Well you’re in luck. I repeat myself from a previous tutorial and repeat the repeater. I don’t don’t know know if that’s ironic or what but in this tutorial you’ll make arrays of shape layers into psychedelic backgrounds and patterns that will confuse, hypnotize, and annoy people all over the internets. Want to see the same thing over again? Well you’re in luck.
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Animate With a Control Layer – Adobe After Effects tutorial

Animating many layers on at once is hard… but not if you use Control Layers. Link the animation of a while field of layer into one gradient layer in minutes with one excellent expression. That expression looks like:
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Shape Layer Repeater (radial) – Adobe After Effects tutorial

Draw, animate, repeat. Always repeat. They say Pete and Repeat tried to amke flat style burst embellishments. Pete made like 3 keyframes, duplicated a bunch and was done before lunch. Who was left? Repeat. Okay I will. Draw, animate, repeat…
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The Wiggly Selector (Text Animator) – Adobe After Effects tutorial

Animate text all over the place with the Wiggly Selector. By default all animators on text start as Range Selectors. That’s great, but it’s not the be all and end all of text animator selectors. In fact I would say this one is better than the range selector just because it’s more fun. But then I usually say things that wiggle are more fun than things that range.
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Wavy Flowing Banners – Adobe After Effects tutorial

Wavy banners, what could be better for showing the names of things in a flowing old time way. Maybe you want a banner that shows how much you too love guns and or roses. Or just the word mom. Or the name of your company, first girlfriend, or a favourite pet. I suppose those are all just about the same thing anyway.

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

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.

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Fractal and Turbulent Noises – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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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