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

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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.

Animation PreProduction – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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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.

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

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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.

Make Sequential Animations using the Repeater – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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Create sequential animation with the repeater all on one layer. Just one layer for hundreds of animated pieces? Oh yeah! And it can be controlled with like 6 keyrames? Also yes. You’ll love how this frees up your timeline, simplifies transitions, and adds complexity to otherwise boring elements without bogging you down in precomps, large stacks, or 3rd party plugins.

Adobe Premiere Pro to After Effects Workflow – Tutorial

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How to work from Premiere, to After Effects, or t’other way round. Someone asked me once about how do you work from Premiere to After Effects and my first answer was “how DON’T you” because I sensed some incredulity in their tweet and felt snark was their due. But it brought up a good point that there were many many ways to work between the two programs. Here are some basic ways that you can do that. What you do with that info to form your own workflow is your own business. But the big thing is that you don’t need to lock in to only one way of doing things. There will be many solutions for many problems and there is no one correct answer.

Split and Slide (like you see in the hippidy hop videos!) – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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Split video with lines, then make that video do wacky and interesting stuff. Sure makes that boring old line seem more interesting now! I’ve seen this in a video on the music television and someone asked me about it. I forgot who that was, sorry. Either way in this tutorial you’re going to split, slide, rotate, and all kinds of cool junk that you might enjoy. You can expand on this technique to do much much more but even at the bare minimum it looks pretty cool.
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Repeat The Repeater (For Psychedelic Patterns!) – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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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

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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

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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

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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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