Work smarter with these must have free After Effects plug-ins. Unlike most other (motion) graphics applications, Adobe After Effects relies heavily on external plug-ins. Most of them are paid, some are even pretty expensive. But there are a couple of essential plug-ins every motion designer is usin

Motion Design with After Effects is actually very easy. Even if you have not used the Adobe After Effects application before, as a novice you will find the menu structure and intuitive layout easy to master. Creating your images or characters in Illustrator gives you a larger scope of possible anim

Animated logos such as the type that you can create with Adobe After Effects can be fantastic for brand recognition. Also, they can be excellent when used on websites and short motion advertising. This short guide will give you the basics of how to create a trendy logo animation for your business o

To create glowing lines animations on your video is a long process but this guide will help you achieve mastery in After Effects. We are going to use a dancing video as this gives you the true understanding that Glowing Lines can give you videos. Load your Video and get Images to use for your li

Sky Replacement with After Effects is something you’ll probably encounter a lot when doing post-production and motion-graphics. As always there are multiple ways to achieve the desired result, but here is a neat technique from C.M. de la Vega to replace the sky easily when your source footage

After all these years, Harry Potter is still a thing. Trust me, I know what I’m saying. I just had to create Harry Potter style pictures for a wedding (!) couple believe it or not. If you are trying to apply that effect to videos with Adobe After Effects, the latest tutorial from Productio

If you have some experience with Adobe After Effects you should already know that the Essential Graphics Panel is a very powerful tool to create very complex and customizable mograph templates. C.M. de la VEGA is showing you how to create a template with swappable background images in his latest tu

Instagram Story Templates are probably the most popular presets for After Effects right now. If you want to create your own presets, here is a great tutorial, to begin with from DopeMotions. In this particular case, an audio product is being promoted by a vertical ad for Instagram Stories. First

As an After Effects user, you know that the software is heavily relying on 3rd party Plug-Ins to get something decent done. But it’s always good to master your software of choice and know the basics to create compelling animations, without using any additional scripts and Plug-Ins. In this

To unleash the real power of After Effects, sooner or later you will need to work with Expressions. Mastering these small code snippets will open a whole new world for you when it comes to creating compelling Motion Graphics. In this tutorial Ben Marriot will walk you through this top 10 list o

Learn how to create this magic frame effect in Adobe After Effect by utilizing a simple masking technique used by creators like Zach King / FinalCutKing. At first, it might look like the camera in this footage has been tracked or some other fancy masking technique is going on. But it’

It’s no secret that After Effects is heavily relying on external scripts and Plug-Ins for a productive workflow. With a huge amount of paid Plug-Ins, the ecosystem around After Effects also offers a number of very useful free plug-ins. Ben Marriot is giving us a quick rundown of his top 5 of

For those of you who are creating music videos with Premiere Pro and After Effects this tutorial here from Andrew James is definitely something you don’t want to miss. Although this is supposed to be a promotional video for AE Rocket and it’s commercial preset pack, the sponsor is ge

If you are looking for creative title looks for your next (music) video created with Adobe After Effects or Premiere Pro, Max Novak has you covered. In his most recent video he will show you a couple of styles and techniques to spice up your next video production. In a music video context, he is

Here is another nice text effect tutorial for After Effect from Videolancer. If you want to spice up your boring title animation, you can use this overlapping shadow technique to give it a nice 3D depth look. Enable per-character 3D The trick here is to reduce the tracking value so the charac

Here is a quick technique from Andreas Hem to spice up your videos by enhancing selected scenes in your footage in After Effects. Andreas is masking out the main element by using the roto brush tool. For a better effect you might want to mask out other foreground or background elements in your s

Here is the first template of my new series “Template Tuesday” on Youtube. I will be recreating popular pay themes and you will get to download and use the final result for free. Why am I doing this? Well, first of all, I want to challenge myself to get out of my comfort zone with

If you are an Adobe Creative Cloud user you probably know how convenient it is to switch from one program to another by just importing the source file. Importing Photoshop files to After Effects and retaining the layers is probably the most common example. Import Animate Source files right into Afte

In this weeks Copycat Friday tutorial CineComNet is looking at the new Rudy Mancuso video “Stories From Our Future” where they are recreating 3 of the effects seen in the video. The first effect is a hologram effect of 2 people trying to touch each other. For this effect to work you

After Effects might not be the first choice for creating Hollywood movie VFX. But ProductionCrate is showing us how to create the face veins effect from Marvel’s Dark Phoenix right within Adobe’s motion graphics powerhouse. First starting with tracking the talent’s face Chris a