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…
Category: After Effects
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…
New AI-powered video editing tools in Premiere, plus major motion design upgrades in After Effects
As filmmakers gather for the 2026 Sundance Film Festival — where 85 percent of premiering films were made using Adobe Creative Cloud — Adobe continues to power…
