The valueAtTime() property is one of my most used expressions in Adobe After Effects. In this short tutorial, we’ll cover the basics of how it works, and how to make a simple trail with a custom delay. Do don’t delay, and follow along with this tutorial!
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Make a fake 3d cylinder in after effects using shape layers. It’s almost 3d, but is more suited for abstract depth than actual 3d geometry. This is how you can make a more illustrative or abstract 3d look.
Having trouble writing on script fonts? Variable stroke widths and overlapping areas got you down? Here are two techniques that can get any complex headline under control! These advanced techniques will vastly improve the speed and style of your write on transitions and effects.
We take another closer look at the SourceRectAtTime expression. Usually used to make boxes the same size as text layers, many of you asked for more control over what kind of text alignment could be used.
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Great motion design doesn’t spring fully formed from a designer’s mind. There are many steps to the pre-production process. An early and critical step the mood board. To define your visual style we typically assemble a collage of images, video, colours and fonts that will evoke the style of a piece.
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We create a string of lights and learn how to use the Create Nulls from Path script. Create Nulls from paths is a powerful script that comes with After Effects and can give you access to the locations of points in 2d space, and any point and tangent on that path. It was a long requested feature and this has been a long overdue tutorial. Finally in 2019. I’m catching up… while probably still have my Christmas lights up.
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Easily animate falling leaves. Driftings and flowing, deforming along the path. No simulations. No plugins. Just simple puppet pin and motion path manipulations. As relaxing as an autumn day.
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Do you want to build a snowman? How about if the snowman build’s itself? We’re going to use nulls and some basic expressions to do less work when we move layers around in precise ways. Rotate a circle like it’s rolling on the ground? Easy! Roll a circle up another circle? Easier! Maintain texture size while scaling? Easiest! Also, I promise no singing.
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Go from one scene to another with this very simple method. Perfect for moving from room to room, abstract scenes, inside to outside. It’s a little trick with some coverup and I hope it opens some doors for your animation… puns.
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