Recreating the Transporter effect from Star Trek: TNG in Adobe After Effects
After finding out that the DVDs for Star Trek: The Next Generation included an extra where the elements used to make up the iconic transporter…
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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…
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…
Scientifically Accurate Wormhole in After Effects
In this tutorial, we’re going to travel from one point in space to another. Is this true, scientific representation of travelling through a wormhole? Probably…
Using After Effects to giveaway 12 months of Adobe Creative Cloud
This video is both a competition and a tutorial! *Sponsored by the Adobe Community Experts Program*, I’ve been given the chance to celebrate gaining 5000…
Film Recorders: how did they get CGI onto film?
A deep dive into VFX History discussing how computers were able to render digital images on physical film. Back in 2019, I posted a question…
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,…