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!
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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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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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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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Glass Pane Slide Show – Adobe After Effects tutorial (Sponsored By Videoblocks)
Make a slideshow for images or video with sliding glass panes moving over and revealing footage and text. This tutorial was sponsored by Videoblocks. Visit http://videoblocks.com/ECAbrams_0716 to redeem your 7-day free trial to VideoBlocks!
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The Text Animation Tool – Adobe After Effects tutorial
So you want to animate some text do you? Well After Effects is good for that. The text animation options can be a little dodgy at times but this tutorial or lesson or whatever should see you clear to getting on the right track.
A more advanced tutorial on these things is coming up but for now this should get you using the properties, the range selector, and all those fun easing options right fast.
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