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…
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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…
Ferris Wheel Rotation in After Effects
To animate a Ferris Wheel, start with the cars on separate layers from the wheel shape itself. Then, import your graphic file into After Effects…
Maxon Studio Takes Visual Storytelling to the Next LevelÂ
Red Giant’s new template engine and streamlined editing UI is the ultimate toolkit for creating stunning videos fast with no learning curve! Maxon, maker of powerful,…
Ending a Loop Expression in After Effects
This question comes up quite a bit on forums and it seems to trip people up: “how can you have a loop expression (either LoopIn…
After Effects cameras and Unreal Engine
Welcome to my series on learning Unreal Engine for video production, especially for Adobe After Effects artists. I’ve been learning how to use Unreal Engine,…