Unreal Engine for video – landscape sculpting
Welcome to my series on learning Unreal Engine for Adobe After Effects users. I’ve been learning how to use Unreal Engine, the free to use…
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Unreal Engine for video production – getting started
Welcome to my series on learning Unreal Engine for After Effects users. I’ve been learning how to use Unreal Engine, the free to use gaming…
Optical Printers: compositing before After Effects
Beyond the basic explanation of “blue screen”, have you ever wondered how they used removed the blue from a background? These days compositing software makes…
Ultra 3D Sun using Video Copilot Element
Paying homage to Andrew Kramer’s original Ultra 3D Earth tutorial, I think I have finally cracked creating solar flares, magnetic field lines and 3D flames…
Looping a Wiggle in After Effects
You want to combine two expressions, loopOut and Wiggle. That way you can automate your animations but still get a more natural or random result.…
Ring Explosion Planar Shockwave in After Effects
Create cinematic 2D and / or 3D shockwaves to match your favourite space movies. In this video, I talk you through how to create a…
I bought a Stream Deck+ for After Effects, should you?
I decided to spend some of my hard earned your generous donations on a Stream Deck+ (or is it StreamDeck Plus) by Elgato. I’ve been…
How I made my Star Trek battle in After Effects
For my earlier tutorial showing how to create a photon torpedo and have to automatically explode on impact (or rather “at the second keyframe”), I…
Photon Torpedoes Which Explode on Impact
In this video, I start by showing how to use Shape layers to recreate the iconic look of the Star Trek’s photon torpedo. But that…
Create a Pulsar in After Effects
Recreate the look of a spinning, neutron star. In this tutorial, I share two different ways to create spinning, 3D, volumetric lights in After Effects.…