Max Novak is showing us an interesting technique to create a nice looping video effect in Adobe After Effects. This technique works best if you want to track simple shapes like frames or screens. To track more complex shapes or from more challenging angles, you should use the built in planar tra

After Effects can be used in conjunction with Premiere Pro to add some nice subtle effects to your video. Kyler Holland is showing us a neat technique to add this dreamy fantasy look to a moving shot with just a few clicks. Using the built in After Effects Tracker First you will have to prepa

One question that frequently comes up when learning motion design is how to create fake 3D motion in Adobe After Effects. This is definitely something a motion designer should have in his or her toolbelt. Mike from Mobox Graphics is showing us a technique where you can create a diamond shape rot

The Matrix Bullet Time Effect – Even if you are not particularly into movies and visual effects you probably heard of that iconic scene in the Matrix Trilogy which can easily be called one of the most famous visual effects movie scenes of all times. ProductionCrate is recreating that scene

After Effects Users really appreciate the tools to stabilize and track footage either onboard on Mocha, which is the free version of Mocha Pro that comes with the AE installation. However, it’s not really widely known that Cinema4D also comes with a very powerful tracking tool. In this tutori

You can’t have enough After Effects glitch templates, so here is another one from Videolancer. This template was previously sold on Videohive but now is available for free on his Youtube channel. If you ever tried to build a good looking glitch effect in After Effects you probably know it&

The Glitch Effect is very popular across all editing and motion graphics programs, not just Adobe After Effects. While you can use plug-ins like Twitch from VideocopilotNET for quick turnarounds, glitch effects are actually very easy to create from scratch. SonduckFilm is showing you 5 techniques y

Sometimes things you see in movies are inevitably associated with the according director. Just like the Crash Zoom in almost every Quentin Tarantino film. Here is a tutorial about how you would create that iconic effect in Adobe After Effects brought to you by Max Novak. This is actually pretty

This techniques video is going to show you the latest Top 10 After Effects techniques that will make your video production jump off the screen. This is aimed at producers, designers, filmmakers, and artists, so let’s get straight into it show you the awesome techniques in After Effects. 3D

So to create a tracking Callout Title Effect in After Effects you just need to follow these 3 simple steps. First, select the clip and hit ‘Track Camera’ in the Tracker panel. Leave everything on default (maybe check detailed analysis if you don’t get the desired result

In today’s episode of ‘Casual Friday’, I try to answer the question if Motion Designers should learn 3D. If you asked me ..the answer is clearly ‘yes’. BUT you don’t have to have 3D in your toolbelt to pursue a viable career in Motion Design. You can ba

To create a 3D effect based on regular 2D images, the best choice is probably Volumax 6 for After Effects. What looks like a plug-in at first glance is a pretty complex template that will let process any 2D image and create the illusion of depth to some extent for an immersive 3D photo effect

So to animate an object along a path in After Effects you first have to actually create that path with the pen tool. Now copy the path, go to the ‘Position’ parameter for your object (in this case it’s a little plane graphic) and paste it to the position parameter. After

The Metaverse is coming! Since Facebook’s (now named Meta) presentation of Mark Zuckerberg’s future vision of social media, the hype around the Metaverse and what it is has grown bigger and bigger. To be honest the future of social media has been announced a couple of times

How To create the reactive audio spectrum effect in After Effects: 1. Create a solid2. Apply a mask to the solid and set it to ‘none‘3. apply the ‘Audio Spectrum‘ effect to the solid4. Set ‘Audio Layer‘ to the desired audio file in your comp.5. Set ̵

Finally, I have this new stretch text animation free template for you to use in After Effects. It’s a small and simple one. But a free template nonetheless. You’ve probably seen this stretch text animation many times before. Usually, you convert the text to paths and animate th

One of the most common things to do in Adobe After Effects is Motion Tracking. Now there are multiple techniques to do this and many different scenarios where you would want to apply those techniques. We are going to look at the easiest and quickest way to do Motion Tracking in After Effects.

There are a lot of ways to create animated arrows in After Effects. Some tutorials might even suggest using the pick whip and expressions and all. But it’s actually really easy to create with just 2 clicks and in this tutorial, you will learn how. First, select the pen tool and start

To remove moving objects in After Effects just create a mask around the object you want to remove. In the tutorial above that was a car that I want to remove from the street. With the clip selected and the rectangle tool just drag a mask around the object. Set the mode of the mask to R

So in my intro animation tutorial, I had demonstrated how I created this 3D mouse pointer natively in 3D without any additional plug-ins. Here’s a dedicated tutorial about that. It’s actually a pretty simple process. Just import a cursor graphic, get the pen tool, and ‘t