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Tutorial 64: Faux Text

This week’s tutorial looks at a cool way to make fake text from text in After Effects. A preset is available on our site: 2017-03-31 18:19:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Tutorial 63: Specific Transparency

With specific transparency, we can have layers that are transparent when they cross other layers, and opaque otherwise. This way you can keep a client’s color palette accurate, or you can have layer...

Tutorial 62: Slice Like a Ninja

This week, we take a quick look at using the Set Matte effect to save us from having a bunch of track mattes littering our comp!

Tutorial 61: Seamless Patterns

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This week we check out a quick technique to set up seamless patterns for ribbon boards or anything else you need tiled.

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Tutorial 60: Advanced Text Animator Attributes

I hope you enjoy the alliterative title. :)

This week we explore the advanced attributes of text animators so that we can understand what the hell things like ease high means.

Tutorial 59: Shape Expressions

This week, we take a look at some advanced expression concepts that can be applied to all sorts of expressions, and especially to those for paths in shape layers.

Tapering a Stroke with E...

Tutorial 58: Speed Lines

So I'm a glutton for punishment apparently, but I figured out how to both make make a preset to add speed lines to your shapes and save a preset with named shape elements. This tutorial shows you how ...

More Bloopers

I am dumb. :)

Tutorial 57: Quick Particles

This week we'll explore a way to make semi-randomized circular particles by drawing a quick path with a dashed stroke and using wiggle paths. Using this technique you can make cells, an alternative ve...

Tutorial 56: Curled Paper

Andrew Embury sent me a great idea for a preset. So I built it. Here are a few options for building a simple curled paper rig. Make sure you check out the project file and presets available on our sit...

Curled Pages

Tomorrow's tutorial is going to be this. There will be a preset file thanks to Andrew Embury suggesting this. :)

Quick Tip

In my last quick tips video I showed a tip for making a super fast square (or circle). Well, it turns out when I sai...

Tutorial 55: Mo Better Blobs

So I posted this last night, and YouTube user os cand sent me a link to a tutorial by Motion Café (a French tutorial channel) that has even *Better* Mo Better Blobs. :) The video doesn't include that...

Guide Layers

You probably know about guide layers. If you don't, there's a check you can put on a layer to make it a guide that is only visible in it's comp, but it doesn't render. This way you can have a backgrou...

Tutorial 54: Easy Looping

If you ever need to make a loop for a GIF, animation, or whatever, this technique is quite easy, yet it allows for very complex loops. Check it out. If you don't already know how to do it, you'll love...

Tutorial 53: Quick Tips 03

This week we look at volume three of our quick tips. Here's timecode for the various tips:

+ 0:16 - Make a quick square/circle

+ 0:47 - Make a rectangle with a specific ratio

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Tutorial 52: Understanding Paths

In this quick tutorial we talk about how EPS style paths underlie how path merging works in After Effects (without even using merge paths).

Sorry for the late post on this. I'm still trying to ...

Site Changes

Hi! I'm just writing this post today to say that I've made some backend changes to the site that will allow me to bring you content a lot easier. So expect more cool stuff each week. But for now, have...

Storytime

While I'm here posting up our latest tutorial, I realized this might be of interest to people so I thought I'd post it here.

Other than motion graphics, I really enjoy story and film (which you migh...

Tutorial 51: Flavor Text

I'm on point this week with my post, haha. We're coming up on a full year of tutorials. Severo did 2 so far, so when I hit 54 we'll be at a full year. Though I recorded some things earlier, the first ...

Tutorial 50: Fake Shadows

Hi! I was travelling last week, so I didn't get a chance to post this here, but if you're subscribed to me on YouTube, you've probably already seen this. But on the off chance you haven't, here it is!

Tutorial 49: Scrolling List

AE tutorial 49 is up. In this one, we show how to use expressions to make an iOS-style scrolling list.

Tutorial 48: Repeating Elements

Hi! This is a quick tutorial about creating a quick grid/line of repeated animated elements. It's a pretty simple technique using only default After Effects plugins.

Tutorial 47: Halftone

Hi! I'm very excited about this tutorial. I used to use this free plugin back in the day to make quick and easy halftones, but the developer abandoned it. He put out the source code, but I wasn't able...

Halftone!

Figured out a way to make a usable halftone in After Effects. I'll be making a preset for it too!

Storyboard Templates

I've put up my storyboard template that I use to quickly build my storyboards from drawn frame...

Tutorial 45: Real Shadows

This week, I decided to mess around with After Effects' new C4D 3D renderer. And I made some shadows for my 2D graphics. Beat that. :)

Project File

2016-11-19 01:58:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Intro Bloopers

I told you there would be goofy stuff on here. Or perhaps more accurately, I warned you. :)

Quick Tips

I've got a couple of quick tips that I haven't yet put into a video.

The Quickest Way to Create a Square (or Circle)

You migh'tve seen this one mentioned in a Workbench tutori...

Hi

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