Easy Secondary Motion in Adobe After Effects
Create secondary motion quickly! Secondary motion adds a lot of life to your characters, but it’s hard! We’ll work from a very basic character and apply secondary motion in after effects using rotation, puppet pins, and a new script from Bear Studios!
The first 500 people to use promo code ECAbramsCSR20 when you buy the Character Swing Rigging at https://aescripts.com/character-swing-rigging/ will get 20% off.
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Blob to Text – Adobe After Effects tutorial
Make a blob turn into text. Works with any text. Works with most blobs? All made with regular old after effects. No plugins required. Very little manual keyframing too. It’s an easy workflow that should help you make just about anything into blobs. But we did it with text.
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Animate a Simple 3d Book in Adobe After Effects
So you want to animate a book opening? Turning around? Pages flapping open, curving and arching? Well now you can, and it is very very simple. If you are new to after effects, or new to 3d in after effects, this tutorial should get you started. Let’s turn the page to new knowledge. This is opening a simple 3d book in after effects.
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Control Time in Templates – Adobe After Effects tutorial
Control the timing of your templates! Give users the power to retime animations as they need. Want an animation to last longer? Or text to come on slower? Should a logo come on later? Sooner? Using a simple group of expressions we will open up a whole new world of template possibilities. Even if you don’t make templates you might learn something here.
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Cartoon Warp Speed – Adobe After Effects tutorial
Create a cartoon warp speed effect with manual control. Zoom in as the universe stretches around you! Take your mo-graph to hyperspace? No that’s too much. Just enjoy this after effects tutorial on cartoon warp speed using basic after effects techniques.
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Simple Shape Orbits – Adobe After Effects tutorial
Fake 3d orbits. What’s the difference between a sphere and a circle anyway. It renders fast, sets up in seconds, and so long as you don’t need shading, it’s good enough for a particle sprite! It’s simple shape orbits in under 5 minutes! Airhorn noise!
This is a response to the many viewers who requested this tutorial after watching the Basic Patterns Tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXech38Q2WQ
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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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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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