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After Effects Tutorial: 60+ Kick Ass Effects

After Effects Tutorial: 60+ Kick Ass Effects
In the last few months I have written a couple of posts about motion graphics. Although I have only dabbled in After Effects, it is still one of the things that intrigues me most. After Effects is a really cool software that allows you create vibrant motions graphics just like the movies. Want more articles on Motion Graphics? Cool Computer Animated Videos Motion Graphics: 40 Most beautiful and creative motion reels Create A Realistic Glass Reflection Create A Realistic Glass Reflection Reverse Shatter Tutorial Reverse Shatter Tutorial Energy – Create a complex energy scene with CC particle world Energy - Create a complex energy scene with CC particle world Leap Into Hancock-Style Super Jump Effect Leap Into Hancock-Style Super Jump Effect Animate An Underground Map Without Keyframes In Motion 4 Animate An Underground Map Without Keyframes In Motion 4 After Effects: Holomatrix After Effects: Holomatrix Create a Jelly-like Text Animation in Cinema 4D and After Effects After Effects: The Dark Knight

AE Tutorials: 50 Superb Must Have Effects It has been almost six months since my last post on After Effects tutorials titled: After Effects Tutorial: 60+ Kick Ass Effects. Since then I have been scouring the web in search of fresh new Adobe AE tutorials for you to try out. I am confident that these 50 superb AE tutorials will guide you in creating some amazing motion graphics for your next project. Now the hard part will be deciding which of these amazing tutorials you will use in your next creation. Hope you enjoy! Want more articles on Motion Graphics? Showreel: 40+ Stunning And Creative Examples After Effects Tutorial: 60+ Kick Ass Effects Cool Computer Animated Videos Motion Graphics: 40 Most beautiful and creative motion reels Depth Charge Combine multiple explosions to create a Depth Charge Scrolling LED Text Scrolling LED Text Recreate The Matrix Chopper Scene Recreate The Matrix Chopper Scene In the Eye of the Storm: Creating 3D Rain In the Eye of the Storm: Creating 3D Rain Make Your Own Smooth 3D Outlined Text Using Particles

After Effects CS4 Tutorials: 40 Creative Tips It has been almost six months since my last post on After Effects tutorials titled: AE Tutorials: 50 Superb Must Have Effects. Since then I have been scouring the web in search of fresh new Adobe After Effects CS4 tutorials for you to try out. I am confident that these 40 superb AE tutorials will guide you in creating some amazing motion graphics for your next project. Now the hard part will be deciding which of these amazing tutorials you will use in your next creation. Hope you enjoy! Want more articles on Motion Graphics? AE Tutorials: 50 Superb Must Have Effects Showreel: 40+ Stunning And Creative Examples After Effects Tutorial: 60+ Kick Ass Effects Cool Computer Animated Videos Motion Graphics: 40 Most beautiful and creative motion reels Create high-impact titles using multiple stroke FX Create high-impact titles using multiple stroke FX Mocha Corner Pin – Part 1 Mocha Corner Pin - Part 1 Mocha Corner Pin – Part 2 Mocha Corner Pin - Part 2 Silky Eye-Catching Graphic Opener

After Effects Tutorials: 20 Hollywood Style Movie Title FX Although I have only dabbled in After Effects, it is still one of the things that intrigues me most. After Effects is a really cool software that allows you create vibrant motions graphics just like in the Hollywood motion pictures. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful Adobe After Effects tutorials from around the web. These tutorials will serve as a stepping stone to creating your own Hollywood style movie title FX. Want more articles on Motion Graphics? After Effects CS4 Tutorials: 40 Creative Tips AE Tutorials: 50 Superb Must Have Effects Showreel: 40+ Stunning And Creative Examples After Effects Tutorial: 60+ Kick Ass Effects Cool Computer Animated Videos Hollywood Movie Title Series – Inception v1 The Dark Knight Rises Hollywood Movie Title Create The Amazing Spider-Man Title Sequence Entirely In After Effects The Avengers Hollywood Movie Title Hollywood Movie Titles Series: Tron CG Part Hollywood Movie Title Series – The Green Hornet Hollywood Movie Title Series – 300

After Effects CS6 Tutorials: 40 Top Notch Visual Effects Tips In the last few months I have written a couple of posts about motion graphics. Although I have only dabbled in After Effects, it is still one of the things that intrigues me most. After Effects is a really cool software that allows you create vibrant motions graphics just like the movies. So if you are thinking of making a Hollywood Movie Title Series or just Creating An Awesome Teleportation Effect this post is a must see. Want more articles on Motion Graphics? After Effects Tutorials: 20 Hollywood Style Movie Title FX After Effects CS4 Tutorials: 40 Creative Tips AE Tutorials: 50 Superb Must Have Effects Showreel: 40+ Stunning And Creative Examples After Effects Tutorial: 60+ Kick Ass Effects Cool Computer Animated Videos Bottledship: Hit Or Miss, Hypno Pre-Compulator Still Wins Part 1 Aetuts+ Hollywood Movie Title Series – Real Steel Quick Tip – Using A Delay Expression This Logo Will Self Destruct In 5 Seconds Muted Color Grading And A Vintage Film Burn Using Fractal Noise The Portal

optimizing for performance: Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects | After Effects region of interest This post collects resources relating to optimizing your computer system and After Effects and Premiere Pro so that you can get the most done in the least time with these applications. If you have any questions, please bring them to the After Effects forum or the Premiere Pro forum. It’s much harder to have a conversation in the comments of a blog post than on the forum. We recently released a white paper about configuring or upgrading a workstation for video software, including After Effects, Premiere Pro, SpeedGrade, and Photoshop Extended. The most comprehensive place to find information on improving performance in After Effects is the “Improving performance” page in After Effects Help. I recently recorded a series of videos for video2brain that you can get for free on their website:After Effects & Premiere Pro performance workshop. I recorded additional videos for After Effects CS6 to update the information given in the above videos:

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Integrating 3D applications with After Effects – Part 2: Working with mattes and channels How can you take the output of your 3D applications into Adobe After Effects? This two-part series shows you how. In Part 1 you saw how to export UV data from your 3D apps for use in After Effects. In Part 2, I show you how to create mattes in your 3D applications that you can export to After Effects. This article concludes by showing you how to install and use the OpenEXR plug-ins from fnord to enable you to handle this format in After Effects. A regular issue you will face when integrating 3D rendered imagery with other work is how to separate elements. First, clearly you do not intend to process parts of the image that you don't want processed. Figure 1. Second, you will often use identical instances of the same object in your 3D scene. Figure 2. The last, and perhaps the most common, application of generating mattes in 3D programs is selective color correction. Alpha mattes The most straightforward way of getting a clean matte is to simply contain it in the alpha channel. Figure 3.

30 Days of After Effects Archives - School Of Motion Membership is Free, and comes with sweet benefits. Project File Downloads School of Motion Newsletter Members-Only Content Want instant-access to tons of project files, assets, and exclusive members-only offers? How To Create a Flat Shaded Smoke Effect in Ae creativMotion shows how to create a cartoon style flat look to a smoke animation effect in After Effects. creativMotion extends a look at who you can create a cel shaded look for a flat 2D style smoke effect in After Effects. Here, the workflow consists of creating the smoke effect elements in Adobe Illustrator. The elements are then used and animated in After Effects to create the smoke effect animation. Learn how to create a flat style smoke effect Once the basic animatic is completed, you can find out how to easily create the Cel shaded cartoonish, flat 2D style look by overlaying pre comps together in After Effects. A while back, Shawn Sheehan demonstrated more of a simulated technique using Trapcode Particular to generate the 2D flat style smoke effect. Over the last little while creativMotion has exclusively shown how to create the hand drawn animation look, and the 2D Style, cartoon Cel shaded look with a few tutorials both in After Effects and Photoshop.

5 Great 2D Character Rigging Tutorials For After Effects | Motion Array Does your animation lack “character”? Or does it lack character animation? Character animation is one of the trickiest techniques in After Effects. It’s become a very popular technique for all sorts of animations, especially things like explainer videos and shorts. But creating great character animation starts with great character rigging, and this is something that takes a little work. There are some tools out there to make this easier. Today, we are going to highlight some great character rigging tutorials that will help you build great characters for your animation needs. 1. Character animation is so popular now that Adobe is building their own character animation tool called Character Animator. The team behind the tool has created a 30-minute tutorial outlining how the Character Animator tool works and how you can use it for your animations. First off, this tutorial isn’t strictly a character rigging tutorial. 2. 3. Daniel Gies is a master of 2D character animation in After Effects.

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