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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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Wavy Flowing Banners – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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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.

Sequence Animation – Adobe After Effects Tutorial

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So you want to make a sequence of animations or something cascading or who knows what. Well in short you go animation / keyframe assistant / Sequence Layers… but if that were all there was to it everyone would do it well. Let’s get into how to make this go one, step, at, a time… in a sequence as it were.

Hangout Announcement – November 12th 8:00 EST

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Let’s hangout! First ever LIVE Q&A by me, with you. WE’ll be getting together over Google+ so if you want to join in at 8:00 EST on November 12th 2013 you should use some of the links below to follow through no that.

Pixelated Graphics (16-bit mosaic effect) – Adobe After Effects Tutorial

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So you like retro graphics BUT you have a really fancy pants vector style? How about we use an adjustment to fix that right up! It’s fast, simple, and scalable. It’s a delight. You’ll be throwing haddokens in no time. Let’s get into it and get you retro hip with this old school video game crap.

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

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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.

Fractal and Turbulent Noises – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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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.
If you have any questions just let me know in the comments.
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Venetian Blinds – Adobe After Effects Lesson

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What are Venetian Blinds in After Effects? Asside from a good way to keep your neighbours from seeing what exactly you do at night? It’s a rad effect and I’ll show you what it is, what it does, how it be. You know what I’m saying? No. No one does.