A Simple Introduction to Cavalry: Indexed Circle

In this new introductory tutorial for Cavalry we’re going to learn a whole range of useful techniques including how to harness the power of index…

Paper Cutout Effect for Resolve Fusion

Creating this simple paper cutout animation in Resolve Fusion. Can’t see this video? Click here! If you are in Safari, hover over “Safari” in your…

Cavalry: Getting started with SkSL

A tutorial for complete beginners to get you started writing filters and shaders with the Skia Shading Language inside Cavalry. Don’t panic : we’ve got…

Hawaiki Keyer Out Now for Resolve!

The best news of the year. I’ve been hoping for this for a very long time and it’s finally here: the best keyer on the…

Pixellated ASCII for Resolve Fusion

ASCII text animation is brought to life for Resolve Fusion. Learn how to create stunning, retro-inspired text effects for your videos using this simple yet…

Procedural Text Stroke Animation

A stylish modern text animation that looks pretty fancy but is very easy to do. Can’t see this video? Click here! If you are in…

Shiny Circles Visualizer for Apple Motion

How to use a lesser-known filter to create this dynamic shiny circular music visualiser in Apple Motion. Assets Can’t see this video? Click here! If…

Marching Cubes in Resolve Fusion

A great workout for using expressions to create a fun animation rig for an army of 3D cubes to march across the screen. My tutorials…

My Top Pro Tip for Working with Text in Apple Motion

Discover how to format text like a pro and save yourself many hours and much heartache – and have a lot of creative fun while…

Custom Gradient Colorize for Resolve Fusion

Digging into the theory of the gradient colorize process to build our own super cool custom version – because we like building our own tools…

The Secret of Resolve's Missing Blend Mode

Uncovering an important blend mode missing from both Resolve and Fusion and that’s the Hard Mix blend mode – and we’re going to be building…

Stunning Starling Murmuration Tutorial

It’s one of the greatest natural wonders and we’re endlessly amazed by it. Discover how to create this stunning starling murmuration in Apple Motion using…

Twisting in the Wind – An Apple Motion Tutorial

Another very simple text-based project that uses an unusual combination of filters and blend modes. Can’t see this video? Click here! If you are in…

The Ultimate Glass Tutorial for Apple Motion

Stunning glass effects, infinitely adaptable from these basic techniques. Who needs After Effects when you have Apple Motion? Can’t see this video? Click here! If…

How to Make Street Art in Apple Motion

How to create a 2D trompe l’oeil street art effect in Apple Motion. Download the project photo by Abraham Sánchez Martínez from Pexels. Can’t see…

Resolve Fusion: Snow Settling Tutorial

How to create this snow settling effect in Fusion – a simple but effective technique that’s useful to know. (I first created this effect for…

Happy New Fusion Macro

Quick overview of the new entirely FREE Resolve Fusion macro that gives you a sexy bevelled look for 2D sources. A must-have for anyone doing…

How to Make an Infinity Loop in Resolve Fusion

Quite a few useful techniques involved in this fairly simple project. Assets Can’t see this video? Click here! If you are in Safari, hover over…

Building Our Very Own Green Screen Keyer in Apple Motion: Part 1

Part One of this compositing series for Apple Motion in which I show you how the build our very own green screen keyer using just…

Mechanical Sphere in Resolve Fusion

How to recreate this project in Fusion using elements from Blender and importing via FBX: lighting, materials, shaders, camera, animation. Important note: In Resolve you…

Shattered Reflection in Resolve Fusion

How to make a dramatic reflection scene in Fusion: render passes, shaders, lighting, camera animation. For assets click here. Can’t see this video? Click here!…

A Gentle but Exciting Introduction to Blender: Part Three

Third and final of this complete beginner’s tutorial for Blender. A Gentle but Exciting Introduction to Blender: Part One A Gentle but Exciting Introduction to…

Free Chromatic Aberration Template for Final Cut

A quick overview of my free chromatic aberration template based on my recent tutorial. Can’t see this video? Click here! If you are in Safari,…

The Most Useful Filter You've Never Used in Motion

Very quick tip where I show you how to use one of Motion’s most unexpectedly useful filters. Can’t see this video? Click here! If you…

A Gentle but Exciting Introduction to Blender: Part Two

Part Two of this complete beginner’s tutorial for Blender. A Gentle but Exciting Introduction to Blender: Part One A Gentle but Exciting Introduction to Blender:…

A Gentle but Exciting Introduction to Blender: Part One

I thought I would turn this project into a beginner’s tutorial for Blender because it shows a lot of very useful core techniques. I’m assuming…

Blender: Cycle of Evolution Tutorial

This concept was one of my more popular Motion tutorials and I thought it would be interesting to recreate it in Blender using Geometry Nodes.…

Apple Motion QuickTip: My Favourite Effect Ever

OK, that’s an exaggeration, but I just loved the result I got with just one generator and two filters so I had to share it…

Apple Motion: Understanding Fixed Resolution

An overview of this tricky but important topic which can hit you with a lot of gotchas if you’re not careful. Can’t see this video?…

Creating a Particle Man Resolve Fusion

A simple but effective use of particles driven by an animated 3D character. We’ll also build the 3D environment that brings the whole thing to…

Blender: Awesome Rack Focus Rig

In which we build a focusing rig in the Blender compositor to enable selective focus to throw the background or the foreground out of focus…

Apple Motion's Best-Kept Secret

A seriously useful technique that I have employed in many of my tutorials but which I have never explained in detail … until now. Can’t…

Resolve Fusion: Writing Expressions with Lua

The answer to the very frequently-asked question: what is the programming language that Fusion uses for expressions? Here we will take a quick dive into…

Is Apple Motion obsolete?

What is the future of Apple Motion? Is it already obsolete? Let’s take a closer look. Let me know your own thoughts in the comments.…

Bi-directional Displace in Apple Motion

Some things ‘just aren’t possible’ in Motion, and that’s where we have to get a bit clever and supply our own solutions. Lots of interesting…

One Good Thing About Apple Motion

I’m interrupting my Five Things That Are Wrong with Motion series to bring you One Very Good Thing: a brilliant design decision that really makes…

Five Things That Are Wrong With Apple Motion

First in a series of five. The title speaks for itself although my perspective is a little different from most people’s because I am principally…

Resolve Fusion: 'In Depth' Tutorial

Fusion has plenty of tools for depth compositing but often they don’t give you the flexibility you really need, so here we are going to…

Create a 3D Gyroscope in Resolve Fusion

Not really a gyroscope but it’s an interesting looking animation nevertheless. Asset: https://drive.google.com/file/d/137f9… (And yes, the render is not perfect. This is a tutorial not…

Fibonacci Sunflower in Apple Motion

A simple tutorial that looks at the numbers behind creating a stylised Fibonacci sunflower. Enjoying this tutorial? Sign up for the Creative COW Newsletter! Sign…

Blender: An introduction to Cloth Simulation

You’ll find lots of tutorials showing you how to get cloth to fall onto something, but what if you wanted to get cloth to be…

Apple Motion: A fun tutorial about edges

Here are a few cool things that you can do with edges in Apple Motion. OK, so this is not exactly premium content, but hopefully…

Apple Motion Tutorial: Iron Man HUD

Part One of this tutorial in which we look at creating this classic effect and in this part we will be focusing on the mechanics…

Seamless Looping in Apple Motion

In which we get to grips with a variety of techniques for creating seamlessly looping graphics. Related COW Tutorials Enjoying the news? Sign up for…

Blackmagic Fusion: Cube Cradle Tutorial Part Two

Part Two of this tutorial where we do a bit more work on the animation but mainly it’s about experimenting with the lighting and materials…

Blackmagic Fusion: Cube Cradle Tutorial

Lots of juicy expressions involved in rigging this effect – and you love expressions. Or at least you ought to! Blackmagic Fusion: Cube Cradle Tutorial…

Apple Motion: Circling Circles Illusion Tutorial

A fascinating optical illusion that’s quite simple to achieve … if you have the right magic formula. Getting the numbers exactly right is the key…

Animate a Slinky with the Loader Effect in Apple Motion

I saw this very nice loader concept on Behance and I wondered how one might do it in Motion, so here you go. Lots of…

Blender + Apple Motion: Spaceship Tutorial Project

Part One of this (seven part) introductory course for Apple Motion users who are new to Blender, in which we’ll create 3D scene elements in…

Sliding Glass Text Panels Tutorial in Apple Motion

An interesting graphic treatment involving plenty of useful techniques. Find Sliding Glass Panels assets here. ### Enjoying the news? Sign up for the Creative COW…