After Effects Tutorial – Loop Fractal Noise
Fractal Noise is one of the most useful effects available in Adobe After Effects. Since the pattern is generate randomly, you might be wondering how…
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3D DNA in After Effects – Without Plugins
A quick tutorial showing how to use shape layers and CC Ball Action to create a classic sci-fi / electron microscope DNA strand. Deoxyribonucleic acid…
How to prevent Shape Layer anti-aliasing issues in After Effects
After Effects Shape Layer secret everyone should know. Anti-aliasing issues occur when the X and Y sizes of a parametric Shape Layer is an odd…
Adobe Introduces 3D & Motion Design Upgrades in Adobe After Effects
For IBC 2024, we’re thrilled to introduce a major set of improvements and upgrades to our 3D workspace in After Effects that make it easier…
Flicker Text Reveal in Adobe After Effects
One way to animate text to appear in After Effects is to create a flicker-on effect. With your text layer selected, choose the animate button…
Marvel Energy and Aura Flames in After Effects
A no-particles flame effect you can pull off with no plugins. There’s some really cool VFX in the Captain Marvel movies, but my favourite is…
Recreate Predator or Thermal Vision in After Effects
I’ve been using the rotobrush tool quite a lot recently in other projects after I realised just how good it has become. Which made me…
Control Text Glow with Audio in After Effects
With a Glow Effect added to your text and an audio track in the composition, the first step is to right-click on the audio track…
Recreating Star Trek Phasers in After Effects
In this tutorial, I show how to build a reusable phaser effect, based on those in Star Trek: The Next Generation. I’ve been rewatching TNG…
How to fix common After Effects crashes
Don’t panic, crashes happen and knowing how to resolve them so they don’t happen again is the most important thing. In this video, I use…