VFX History: the origin of After Effects
Before it was Adobe, it was CoSA. This is the VFX history of Adobe After Effects. The industry-standard motion graphics and visual effects software started…
Category: After Effects
How to Run the Original 1993 After Effects
How to the original After Effects v1 in an emulator, and you don’t have to install anything on your computer to do it. In my…
How to Recreate the Star Trek TNG jump to warp in After Effects
In 1987, John Knoll at ILM had to use labor-intensive, 3D slitscan photography to make the Enterprise-D stretch into warp speed. In today’s tutorial, we’re…
VFX History: Slit Scan
How did 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Doctor Who and Star Trek: The Next Generation create mind-bending visuals decades before CGI? The secret is…
Give Your Astrophotography REAL Depth – After Effects Tutorial
In this tutorial, I talk you through the full workflow for taking a static astrophotography image and turning it into a cinematic fly-through using After…
COW Jobs: Post Production Coordinator – Premiere, After Effects Workflow – Remote
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COW Jobs: Remote Post-Production Project Manager – AE, 3D, Editorial
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COW Jobs: Remote Freelance After Effects Animator, Editor – Ongoing Contract
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I found a Free Black Hole Plugin for After Effects!
Learn how to create a cinematic, 3D black hole in After Effects using the brand new (and free!) Black Hole plugin from ‪ProductionCrate‬. ProductionCrate recently…
Blender to After Effects: Warping a Plane Into a Sphere
I’ll show how to animate a flat plane into a sphere in Blender, using the Simple Deform modifier. Then (because nothing is ever simple) I’ll…