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John Dickinson of Boris FX breaks down an epic fantasy title animation created with Blender and After Effects with Sapphire and Continuum.

Each July 4 we update a collection of fun tutorials on making fireworks. Enjoy tutorials for Particular, Particle Illusion, X-Particles, more!

Get advice from seasoned pros on putting together a reel that will get you jobs! Learn what work to include on your reel, music choices, etc.

Michael Szalapski shows you how to use Supercomp, a compositing tool in Red Giant, with Essential Properties in After Effects.

Learn how to use Firefly 3 by entering a text prompt, and choosing aspect ratio, content type (art, photo), structure, style, and effects.

If you've ever wanted to know how to make still images come to life, as you've seen in documentaries, Nick Harauz from Boris FX shows you how!

If you work with old video footage in standard format or can't shoot 4K, learn how to make the job smoother and get better results.

Josh Olufemii walks you through the process of exporting a transparent background in Premiere Pro. This is a great tutorial for new users.

Josh Olufemii has 20 timely tips for video editors to get 2024 started with a bang. The software agnostic tips are for editors using any NLE.

Boone Loves Video shows you how to quickly create animated arrows over a map with the GEOlayers 3 Arrow tool in After Effects.

Purple Pie Studios explains how to create expressive characters with a 2D face rigging using Joysticks n Sliders in After Effects.

A.I. tools for video, filmmakers, and content creators are currently available for a lot more than you may realize. Here are tools to try!

With a combination of the After Effects Camera Lens Blur and Depth Maps created with Depth Scanner, create cool tilt-shift effects.

From the Maxon booth at NAB 2023, Chad Perkins shows you how he creates ornate ornamentation using the tools in Maxon One.

Jake In Motion talks about how using ChatGPT in After Effects has changed his workflow forever. He uses Klutz GPT and Kbar.

Learn about how you can amp up the power of After Effects Puppet tool with voodoo from Pencil Park that lets users animate pins easier.

Improve your Premiere Pro editing workflow with proxies when using RE:Vision Effects Twixtor on high-resolution footage.

Check out Week 5, Compositing, in Maxon's Demystifying Post-Production: Compositing 3D Into Videos and Stills series. The final week!

Boone Loves Video shows you the best way to create and use label templates in GEOlayers 3 in Adobe After Effects.

This helpful tutorial explains how to manage your color spaces in Premiere Pro, including HLG HDR, Standard, and Log media.

It's time for Week 2, Tracking & Distortion, Maxon's Demystifying Post-Production: Compositing 3D Into Videos and Stills series.

Learn how to make a zombie into a cordyceps-faced Clicke inspired by HBO's The Last of Us, using GeoTracker in After Effects.

Learn about how Diffusae was used to create the Diffusae product banner, using imported footage. Learn how to add prompts with text layers.

Week 1 of Maxon's Demystifying Post Production: Compositing 3D Into Videos and Stills covers Camera and Light Estimation.

Eric Escobar, Product Manager for Pro Video Workflows at Adobe, talks about Automatic Tone Mapping, a fantastic new feature in Premiere Pro.

Learn about Rolling Shutter is, the of Rolling Shutter types you may encounter, and tools to fix this annoying video problem.

Eric Say presented "The Bridge Between Cinema 4D and After Effects" during The Maxon 3D and Motion Design Show Siggraph 2022, Day 1.

In this video, Javier Mercedes talks about using auto ducking, the lowpass filter, and noise reduction in Premiere Pro to improve audio.

Ben Eshagpoor shows some basic physics simulations with Newton in After Effects, with Element 3D, attached using null objects.

To celebrate Flag Day, we've collected a series of tutorials about animating waving flags in a variety of applications.

Need to create a simple head rig and facial animation? It's easy with Joysticks and Sliders. Jafar Fazel shows you how.

In January 2022, Emonee LaRussa live-streamed an animation workshop for entry-level animators, using After Effects. Watch the replay!

Dave C on the Olufemii channel goes through 10 Things You're Doing Wrong in Premiere Pro. Get tips on working more efficiently.

The idea of network rendering is to distribute your render over a network, or farm, of computers, to speed up your render times.

Ben Marriott has some great tips on hidden features in After Effects. Uncover some of these features hiding in plain sight!

Have you been wanting to learn new software but don't know where to start? Don't have the time? Well, I'm here to help you make it happen.

Ae Blues examines Color Managed Workflows in After Effects, with four different spaces. These include Display, Log, Linearized, and ACES.

Save time with the new Multi-Frame Rendering feature in After Effects. Get instructions on enabling it, plus potential plugin issues.

Create the Dune Look with Maxon Cinema 4D, Adobe After Effects, Boris FX Continuum, and Sapphire with John Dickinson.

Here's a fun tutorial from tuts+, just in time for Halloween: How to Make a Tentacle Art Brush in Adobe Illustrator.  Vector Artist Diana Toma walks you through all the steps to create a unique and creative art brush. 

Charles Yeager at Premium Beat has a tutorial for Retro Horror Movie Titles in After Effects that are similar to titles from Stranger Things.

Disintegrator Films creates Animated Gifs With Transparency with GifGun, on sale right now during the aescripts+aeplugins Summer of Sales.

Every month, After Effects Beginner shares the top five tutorials. Watch a roundup of the best tutorials featured in the July 2021 edition.

Ben Marriott shares 20 Quick Fixes to help with your common After Effects problems. Speed up your workflow! Fix little annoyances!

Motion Design School shows you how to animate a cat in a washer. Animate the tail, the washing machine, and the spin in After Effects.

Evan Abrahms shows you how to simply animate arms and legs that are, of course, made from shape layers. Super fun stuff!

After Effects Beginner’s Top 5 Monthly round-up continues with the five best tutorials that have been reviewed for May 2021. Watch now!

Adobe Character Animator is motion capture character animation software that comes with Adobe Creative Cloud. Jump in and use it today!

Andrew Ford Video shows you how to use Content-Aware Fill in After Effects. Content-Aware Fill lets you remove objects from your video.

May 13 is Frog Jumping Day, so to celebrate this important holiday, check out this fun After Effects tutorial from Simple Video Making.

Emmanuel Crown shows you how he made an incredibly cool animated cartoon of himself with Adobe Character Animator and Photoshop. Super fun!

After Effects Beginner’s Monthly round-up continues. We see the five best tutorials that have been reviewed in April's edition.

Holograms are a way to show recorded, beamed messages, schematics, 3-dimensional characters, futuristic user interfaces, and they're now being used in interesting and exciting ways in real life. We'll start with a few examples, and then some After Effects tutorials dealing with the humble hologram.

In the latest installment of Cheap Tricks, Hashi shows you how to create the Druun from the animated film "Raya and the Last Dragon".

After Effects Beginner walks you through the Top 5 After Effects tutorials of March 2021, with the full tutorial videos too!

Ignace Aleya has a new After Effects tutorial showing how to create the Lightning Speed Pass-By effect from Sonic the Hedgehog.

Joe from Workbench shows you how to make some cool futuristic circuitry. This look would be great for an FUI. Check out PQ FUI Toys too!

Three AE tutorials that show different techniques on how to animate a virus spread animation, like you've seen over and over on the news.

After Effects Beginner has put together reviews and insight into five new After Effects tutorials that went up in February. Lots of tutorials!

Matt Johnson explains how you can export high-quality videos for TikTok from Premiere Pro. Plus, some free presets that you can download.

Brandon Fate explains how to create 3D tracked text in Adobe After Effects. It's fast and easy! He also includes a couple of workflow tips.

Jordy Vandeput shows you how to create Camera Rotation Effects. These effects are well suited for music videos or tv show opens or trailers.

NoSleepCreative explains how to recreate the wavy trails effect in AE. The effects can be seen in the Meizu Aicy piece from Flatwhite Motion.

Jason Levine shows you how he uses Premiere Pro’s new Production feature to create reusable assets for episodic or on-going content.

After Effects Beginner has put together reviews and insight into five new After Effects tutorials that went up in January. Lots of tutorials!

Hashi shows you how to make your modern footage look like an old video game with After Effects, Universe, Magic Bullet Colorista. Super fun!

Dive into After Effects Expressions Basics and quickly put expressions to use. Speed up your workflow and create more complex motion graphics

Hashi shows you how to recreate the Holtzman Shield VFX from Dune. Download a free template of Holtzman shield too!

Learn some video editing techniques with Adobe Premiere Rush XayLi Barclay. Motion Designer Evan Abrams is the host. Watch live now!

Adobe Photography Evangelist Terry White is here to show you how to get started with Photoshop, in this Adobe Master Class.

Josh Olufemii talks about how useful markers are in Premiere Pro! He shows you HOW and WHY you should use both timeline markers and clip markers.

Watch Adobe Photography Evangelist Terry White's Photography Masterclass July 24. He will be editing user-submitted photos. Learn his workflow and process.

GVSU Film/Video has a new series, Alumni Live. Filmmaker Joel Potrykus interviews Charles Beale & Jake Bowen about making micro budget films.

Illustrator Shanee Benjamin and host VooDoo Val discuss vector illustration on Adobe Live. Learn about creating logos and branding.

In this tutorial, Ignace Aleya shows you how to create a travel scene in After Effects. He animates the travel map of Europe from Belgium to Moscow.

Learn about how to edit and export for TikTok with your pro video tools. We're featuring Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X, Vegas Pro, and DaVinci Resolve.

Bryan Coleman in his Maxon NAB 2020 Rewind, shows Redshift Lighting, rendering, and displacement maps in Cinema 4D, creating bump maps, and more.

Daniel "Hashi" Hashimoto creates a quick and easy CGI character in his Maxon NAB 2020 Rewind. He composites a giant monster onto the Las Vegas Strip!

This 8 part tutorial series from Boris FX walks you through the process of creating professionally-designed and animated 3D sports interstitial graphic from scratch using Title Studio together with an Adobe Creative Cloud workflow.

Mark Christiansen, motion design master and VFX virtuoso, walks you through his Mocha tracking workflow for Tracking and Clean up in After Effects.

Cinemagraphs is a format that combines photos and video. It's a still photograph where a small area of the image has repeated or looped movement occuring to draw your attention. Cinemagraphs can be published as movies or an animated GIF or in other video formats.

Learn to create a flock of birds using Pastiche for After Effects to reveal a form! Download a free demo of Pastiche from Motion Boutique and try it out!

Ignace Aleya walks you through how to create and composite natural-looking weather scenes in Adobe After Effects. Create snow and rain with these tutorials.

According to our website stats, these were the Top 10 Tutorials of 2019. It's interesting that most are technical, not about VFX.

E from BeyondTheGameTV shows you a technique for creating fantastic sports hype reels. He has some great tips and advice.

Workbench shows you how to create an ugly sweater in After Effects. Indeed, it's a very clever tutorial that is built procedurally using the built-in Mosaic plugin.

Evan C Abrams uses Master Properties in the Essential Graphics Tab in After Effects to reuse elements in this Simple Pumpkin Face Rig.

Reverse Stabilization is a compositing workflow where you stabilize the shot, then composite, and finally, you bring the motion back into your shot.

Jonathan Winbush explains how to make fog with Boris FX Sapphire using your depth map in After Effects. Bonus tutorial: Create Z Depth pass for DOF and Fog.

Arthur Whitehead explains his workflow for making Oreo cookie that splashes into some milk and caramel or liquid chocolate, made in RealFlow.

Benjamin Eshagpoor shows you some slick tricks of Boris FX's Particle Illusion, which comes with Boris Continuum and the Continuum Particles Unit.

TripodNinja, Krishna Bhamidipati has put together an excellent blog post about using RenderGarden to Accelerate After Effects Renders.

Ryan Connelly of Film Riot has a fun new tutorial about how to sort of transform into Shazam with After Effects and Tools from Video Copilot.

Surfaced Studio explains how to add digital make-up, scars, and tattoos to your talent using Mocha Pro’s Mesh Warp tool. This tool is found in the Insert Module, inside an Adobe After Effects workflow.

In this tutorial, Hashi from Action Movie Kid shows you how to create the energy effects from Captain Marvel. Use fractal noise for controlled chaos!

New to Premiere Pro? Customize your keyboard so that it works like FCP! Here are the Premiere Pro keyboard shortcuts that you need to know.

Even though After Effects is a very solid product, everyone will run into issues from time to time, whether it be from corrupt preferences, random errors, codec problems, and more. Here is a general problem-solving guide on how to troubleshoot some common issues with After Effects.

Hashi's latest Cheap Tricks episode, "Infinity And Beyond," in which he shows you how to achieve the disintegration effect that you have probably seen in Avengers: Infinity War! This is a great tutorial with loads of tips.

In this episode of Short Cuts, Premiere Gal Kelsey Brannan explains how to create a fast and stylized YouTube End Screens with Red Giant Universe.

Adobe shares information and recommendations for optimizing your system to get the most out of the latest Adobe video and audio tools.

If you’ve been collecting legacy versions of Adobe software on your Mac for safety, but you’re running out of space, here’s some advice on how to remove the bloat.

Kelsey, AKA Premiere Gal, is back with a new tutorial showing how to use Red Giant Universe Spot Blur to blur out things like logos, faces, addresses, etc.

The Essential Sound Panel divides audio into 4 common types which make workflow faster and easier for non-sound engineers.

Steve at Ripple training shows you how to do a Sky Replacement with Final Cut Pro X’s powerful Keyer effect and a few color correction tools.

With mamoworldJSON, link any property in After Effects to a JSON file. Makes frequently changing your text, colors or other properties simple.

Harry Frank that explains how to use Particular with After Effects new Master Properties feature, which allows you to easily create tons of variations from a single comp.

Colin from VideoRevealed is the master of demystifying mattes, masks and alpha channels apply to the idea of isolating parts of a frame

Daniel Hashimoto (creator of Action Movie Kid) walks through how to re-create some of the VFX and motion graphics from “A Wrinkle In Time, with special guest Lyric Wilson, who played Young Meg in the film. 

We’ve been teased with this for a while, and it’s finally here. Video Copilot has a new tutorial series on how to create cinematic titles entirely inside After Effects. The first one in the series is on Fantasy titles, and it’s packed with tons of custom beveling.

Jeremy Walker creates Mars with realistic planet texture maps, using Cinema 4D’s native MoGraph Effectors. He animates and composites it in After Effects.

VinhSon Nguyen has a tutorial that went up last month on the free Squash & Stretch extension for After Effects. Here are his tutorial and links to download. Plus, some information on how the concept of squash and stretch, a tenet of animation, will help you give your animations and characters personality.

NecroVMX shows you how to make any texture seamless in Photoshop. There are free textures you can download from this page and if you can't find what you need, this tutorial at the bottom of the page will help you create your own. 

The human body is still such an enigma and there are so many technical, yet beautiful, 2D and 3D animations that help to visualize those microscopic mysteries. We had a question about some methods of creating cells and other microscopic elements. First, we have some gorgeous examples to inspire you, followed by a few tutorials for various host applications.

Premiere Gal shows you how to do a bit of Skin Retouching in Premiere Pro. Retouch and smooth skin in Adobe Premiere Pro with Continuum Beauty Studio.

This is a Freebie Friday article on sprite generators for After Effects and a tutorial about converting animations into a sprite sheet for unity.

Maghdad Asadi has a new overview video on working with passes (AOVs) from Arnold in After Effects.

Andrew Devis at DoodleNews.com shows you how to use Time Remapping in Premiere Pro, which enables advanced tools to play with the timing of your shot, in this 2 part walkthrough tutorial.

I’m a big fan of Edgar Wright and one of the scenes that I vibrantly remember that was edited to the beat is the scene in Shaun of the Dead where they’re beating the crap out of zombies at The Winchester Pub while Don’t Stop Me Now from Queen is playing. The scene is brilliant. Then, here are a couple of tutorials for Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro X to help you edit to the beat.

Roland Hartmann of graphicinmotion.com gives a nice tutorial on making particle trails with 3D elements and dives into some features like working with the new Model and Material nodes, creating primitives, extruding masks, adding environments, and using ambient occlusion.

Have you tried the new chart and data animating tools that were introduced in After Effects in CC 2018? Bring in your spreadsheet data to create animated charts and graphs and wow your corporate clients or make detailed graphs for a documentary.

Proxies are duplicates of your footage that are lower resolution and make working with big video files smoother. It’s a really easy way to speed up your workflow. Here are a collection of recent tutorials to get you up to speed on proxies.

Whether you've been editing for years or you're new to the process, everyone wants to edit faster. Although these tips are geared toward new editors, even seasoned editors will hopefully pick up a few tips to speed up their workflow.

Mocha Pro Screen Replacement. Learn how easy it is to motion track a phone screen and insert a new screen using the Mocha Pro plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro.

Make an earthquake in After Effects! Make the earth shake with some shockwaves and heat distortion waves. Graded with Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks.

I sat in on a session with Maxon about FUI, Future User Interfaces. These are fantasy HUD elements that you see in Sci-Fi films such as Iron Man, Star Wars, and others. Roland Hartmann of graphicinmotion.com explains how to create an exciting globe HUD element with the new Stardust, a modular particle system for After Effects.

This is a walk through of how to add some fun and engaging elements to your After Effects comps with Superluminal Stardust by replicating particles.

This Epic Saturn Space Scene from Caleb Ward includes a tutorial and free project files for creating, animating, and stylizing a planet in After Effects.

Make a Magical Particle Trail with Visionary Universe’s Lendon Bracewell walks you through making an enchanted magic particle trail with Stardust.

Andrew Kramer shows you how to direct lighting movement, create dynamic reflections, and more, all completely inside Adobe After Effects.

Animating a counter was one of the first things I ever had to create in After Effects, and it wasn’t tough, but there are a few “gotchas”.

EJ from Eyedesyn gives some great tips on compositing your 3D work into After Effects.

Tutorials on Animating Cartoon Characters with Adobe Software including After Effects, Adobe Character Animator, and Adobe Illustrator.

I always love the content from Film Riot and here's a nice tutorial on Sky Replacement in AE. He stresses that Sky Replacement isn't a paint-by-numbers technique, and will vary with every shot.

This is some beautiful work for the film Eclipse. They replace a flat sky with a gorgeous eclipse. This is very similar to the technique I use in the tutorial above.

This was made for After Effects 6, but everything still applies to the current version. Replace your bland skies in After Effects.

Michele Yamazaki from Toolfarm walks you through a holiday-themed project featuring icy-looking 3D text in a snowy scene, using Zaxwerks ProAnimator for After Effects and Imagineer mocha pro. She goes over how to quickly track the Santa hat in the shot with mocha, create and animate the text in ProAnimator, and demonstrate the ambient occlusion capabilities in ProAnimator.

Doctor Strange is a visually awe-inspiring sci-fi film/fantasy film. We'll take a look at some behind the scenes videos and several tutorials.

If you’ve had a chance to check out our NAB Survival Video, you should! It’s lots of fun. I dove back into Cinema 4D to create the open animation. Here’s how I did it.

Dennis Wei explains some of the techniques he used to create an X-Wing Hologram animation using Cinema 4D and After Effects, using the awesome free X-Wing model from videocopilot.net.

The popular new Netflix Series Stranger Things is a nod to Spielberg classics, such as ET and Goonies. Learn how to recreate the 80's-styled opening sequence in After Effects -  from Red Giant's Seth Worley.

In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne (Kost) will demonstrate how to streamline Lightroom by taking advantage of presets, templates, collections, virtual copies (and more) in order to eliminate much of the repetitive post-capture tasks such as importing, tagging, developing, exporting and sharing photographs.

Should you transcode before Color Grading in Adobe Premiere?  Jarle Leirpoll puts that question to the test and lays to rest some misconceptions.

Larry Jordan shows how to create and use Watch Folders to automate video compression using Adobe Media Encoder.

If you’ve had a chance to check out our NAB Survival Video, you should! It’s lots of fun. I dove back into Cinema 4D to create the NAB Survival Video Open.

Learn how easy it is to export multiple timelines in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Roei Tzoref looks at the difference between rendering in After Effects and using Media Encoder to get the most out of encoding your H.264 Video.

Learn how to create a basic scene in 3d Studio Max with part 1 of a 2 part tutorial series from Envato Tuts+.

"In this tutorial we are going to use Newton in combination with Illustrator to break down/destroy objects within After Effects. You are going to learn how to use Newton 2, Time-Remapping, Masks and the Knife tool within Illustrator and much more." - ArmaganVideos

Not familiar with Adobe Audition? Mike Russell might be able to help you with that!

Adobe After Effects Certified Expert, Jeff Sengstack, present this video tutorial introduction to After Effects Particle World.

Here are a few videos on the features of Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015, released today.

We were asked via Twitter: “Is there a plug-in in existence that allows me to render in AE (in the background) while I continue to work in AE?” Here is a great solution for Adobe Creative Cloud users. We also have a solution for those of you who only have After Effects or are working in an older version of the software.

Question: I am very inspired by Andrew McMurry’s work in the Visual Effects/ Media Arts. I’d like to start making my own videos and bringing them to life. I was told by a Visual Effects distributor to ask you some questions on some recommended software, or apps that could point me in the right direction.

Want to manipulate time in Premiere Pro? Here are some tutorials to help get it right, with both the built-in time tools in Premiere and with the help of RE:Vision Effects Twixtor.

Did you miss the mesmerizing dancing and streaking greens and purples in the northern sky last night? Not only will you get scientific background on the aurora borealis, but today I present some inspiring time-lapse of auroras and methods to make them yourself in Adobe After Effects!

Does the new AE seem buggy when previewing?  It’s all in how the start and stop keys affect it’s behavior.  This article on Pro Video Coalition explains how it works and why it really isn’t buggy at all.

Learn how to create displaced heat waves in After Effects with this easy-to-learn technique.

“Adobe Premiere Pro’s export dialog features several rendering options that are not widely understood. All of them are switched off by default because they either degrade quality or increase rendering times, however they can all be useful in particular situations.” - Jon Chappell

This tutorial will help you get in tune with the Camera Navigation in Adobe After Effects!

Larry Jordan shows us how to record a voice over into an Adobe Premiere Pro timeline.

Daniel Brodesky shows how to create a hand crafted old time film feel to animation in Adobe After Effects.

reTooled.net has a great tutorial up on selective color correction within Adobe Premiere Pro! Want to learn more? Look no further!

In this Quicktip, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how using Depth Maps to displace Trapcode Form particles can be used to create a 3D Point Cloud Representation of a city.  This tutorial was inspired by the brilliant Trapcode Form work of Jeremy Cox at Imaginary Forces, for the film “Terminator: Salvation.” Plus don’t miss out!  All Red Giant Products are 40% OFF for 24 hrs. only!

Class up your holiday graphics with a gorgeous 3D Spinning snowflake with glints of light reflecting off of it. Here’s a fairly popular tutorial from about 5 years ago that is just as relevant today.  Although all the software used has been updated, the formula is the same.

Chris McFall explains how to create a liquid mercury logo animation right in After Effects using mettle’s FreeForm Pro plug-in. Chris also reveals a few clever uses with filters that ship with After Effects, and some of his finishing techniques.

Download the free Repeater preset from Cinemaspice and then watch the tutorial from Mikey Borup explain the Expression Controller in After Effects.

Gardner Raymond shows how to do a Mask Morph between different mask shapes and making it look cool with Plexus, inspired by a video by Yen Hung Lin (Jeff).

Learn how to add a mask or track a moving object within Premiere Pro.  No other software needed.

Shanks FX and PBS Digital Studios recreates the lightning effect with practical effects, and composited them in After Effects. I had no idea they did the effects this way. Genius!

It’s days 10 and 11 of 30 Days of After Effects from School of Motion in Sarasota, Florida. Joe explains how to use Cineware to set up a scene in a 3D environment. In the second part, he focuses on animating the dog in the room with an expression.

Super Shape Morphing sounds like fun! Joey explains how to hand-craft some animation and work with keyframes in After Effects.

It’s day 4 of 30 Days of After Effects from School of Motion in Sarasota, Florida. Learn to take a photograph and make it into a 3D scene and fool everyone.

Here’s a tutorial for creating titles inspired by the “Dracula: Untold” movie trailer.  Bats, smoke, lighting effects, all made completely with in After Effects with first party plugins.

Here is day 2 of the School of Motion’s 30 Days of Motion. This one was inspired by GMUNK’s sci-fi ORA Prophecy piece and shows you some of the powerful options of the often overlooked Polar Coordinates filter.

School of Motion is doing a 30 Days of After Effects Day 1, explaining how to easily create a write on effect and make it look like a real paintbrush.

Ever used the Adobe CC Cleaner Tool? You can use it to solve installation problems in CC, CS3-CS6.

Gardner Raymond explains how to create a cool magnified effect and the titles from the film The Art of Flight, using Rowbyte Plexus in After Effects.

It’s easy to create a video texture inside of 3D text within Adobe After Effects CC.

Ran Ben Avraham shows us how to create a Lizard Man transformation in After Effects with FreeForm Pro. Ran motion tracks a sequence and then he uses FreeForm Pro to wrap the texture of his choice around the actors face in 3D.In Part 2 you will learn how to 2D track different parts of the face in Mocha. You'll apply that info to the texture that has been created.View Part 1

Tilt shift makes your video and images look miniature, like toys. In this project, they use Posterize time, Camera Lens Blur, CC Light Sweep and Fast Blur to create the effect.

Andrew Kramer animates the Twitter logo with the Puppet Tool in Adobe After Effects.

Stefan Surmabojov shows how to create a groovy HDR timelapse image sequence with a day for night effect. You'll need a DSLR with a kit lens, a large memory card, a tripod and more. He clearly explains how to set up the camera so that you don't end up with exposure problems and flicker. He takes care of the post production of the HDR sequence in Adobe Lightroom 5, which is now included in Adobe Creative Cloud.

If you've been using Adobe After Effects since early versions, as I have, you are familiar with the idea of optimizing your machine and settings for premium performance. Here are some tips and resources to help you create the fastest and most solid After Effects you can. If you don't have a big budget for optimizing your system, where do you put the money for upgrades? That's for you to decide, but here are some suggestions on how to optimize what you have, and about other ways to optimize. If this article can't help you with the speed of After Effects, it will hopefully explain why things aren't running as fast as you would like them to.

Let’s start Tutorial Tuesday with a groovy 1970’s throwback, the lava lamp! The tutorial is from Mikey Borup at Premium Beat. This tutorial is for beginners and covers things like fast blur and levels. They also go over Motion Sketch and the Light Sweep plug-in.

Imagineer has a new tutorial up that covers tracking an iPhone screen. Mary Poplin gives detailed instructions on the process both in video form and in words, so you can go at your own pace.

Julieanne Kost demonstrates two ways to change the capture time of your images. The first enables you to offset a time zone change and the second supports a custom adjustment to align multiple cameras used to shoot one event but with different date/time settings in-camera.

Learn how to create this beautiful effect using After Effects and starfield timelapse footage.

I’ve personally run into a problem updating to the current Premiere Pro v7.2.1 on Mac because of an error. Here’s how to get around it.

Adobe Illustrator is a great tool that a lot of people could use a bit more often. Iaroslav Lazunov at Astute Graphics has a great tutorial up for how to create a clothing zipper in Illustrator.

Todd Kopriva gives some tips on migrating to the new update for AE CC.

It’s Tutorial Tuesday once again! Shawn Sheehan contributed this tutorial on AE Expressions to AE Tuts+ yesterday. He explains how to use the loopIn and loopOut expressions.

We continue with Tutorial Tuesday with this fun video tutorial from AE Tuts+. Shawn Sheehan demonstrates the Offset effect combined with comp-to-comp expressions, plus a little time-remapping to create a parallax effect, without a 3D camera or Z-depth of any kind.

It’s Tutorial Tuesday! This is part 1 in a 15 part series called Talking Toons. “Shaders are best used for Props, Particle FX, Organic and Hard Surface Objects, The Relationship Editor’s role, which Lights work best for Toon Shading, Normal Maps, Displacement Maps and the methods we will be using in the following episodes to come.”

Rufus Deuchler, Adobe worldwide evangelist, explains how to create a painting with a brush made from a photo to create complex organic designs quickly.

Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday. AE Tuts+ has a new tutorial on speeding up renders in After Effects.

Tutorial Tuesday is upon us once again. Frederik Steinmetz at AE Tuts+ explains how to use AE to create tileable textures, using non-destructive Adjustment Layers and Curves to get the correct lighting.

Mathias Mohl from Mamoworld shows how to create and animate a logo in CINEWARE and finish it in After Effects CC.

This short tutorial shows how to create a custom Burn Map, using Photoshop, and Nattress Film Burn Through transition from Nattress Film Transitions for Final Cut Pro, Motion and After Effects.

One of the changes in After Effects CC (12.0) regards when activation occurs, and this affects how you install render-only instances of the After Effects application, known as render engines. Todd Kopriva of Adobe goes into detail on the new process.

As we continue with Tutorial Tuesday at Toolfarm, here are 5 Useful effects that every AE artist can pull from their arsenal time and time again!

We’re going to be looking at the animation style of “The Great Gatsby”. We’ll make this title style using Cinema 4d for the modeling of the logo and After Effects for the final composite. The real core of this tutorial is how to get the logo from a 2d drawing to a complex 3d model. Once you know the secrets of how to get the logo with all its molding, the remaining design of the background come naturally.

An advanced tutorial covering mocha v3’s 3D camera solver and Adobe after Effects. Mary Poplin creates a HUD style graphic in 3D space.

In case you missed it, Imagineer recorded this past week’s webinar with Mary Poplin, covering planar tracking techniques for digital makeup and removals.

Learn how the integration between After Effects and CINEMA 4D benefits you as an artist. Author and 3D expert Chris Martin gives an overview of the workflow.

Angie Taylor talks about Extruding Shapes in 3D in Adobe After Effects CC in this introductory video.

In this tutorial, Nick Campbell of Greyscalegorilla shows how to set up a depth pass for rendering depth of field for 3D objects using CINEMA 4D, Frischluft Lens Care and After Effects.

Nick at Greyscalegorilla has put together a quickstart guide to Maxon Cineware and Cinema 4D Lite, now shipping with Adobe After Effects CC.

Daniel of AETUTS+ shows how to create a cool slideshow transition in After Effects

If you want to make advanced adjustments to playback speed over time, you’ll go looking for time remapping. Premiere Pro makes the process very simple, though you may find yourself turning to After Effects for a fine finish. This lesson shows you why and how.

Todd Kopriva of Adobe fills us in on some new key commands to help users find lost items.

Snapping of layer features in the Composition panel, new in After Effects CC (12.0)

Edit more efficiently with a redesigned Timeline, intuitive track targeting, and dozens of new shortcuts in Adobe Premiere Pro CC. See critical info such as duplicate frames and through edits. With Paste Attributes, you can copy and paste the specific effects you need from one clip to another.

Modern productions are built on hundreds (if not thousands) of clips. It’s easy to lose track of files, proxies, and backups saved on multiple drives. Link & Locate in Adobe Premiere Pro CC helps you track down your clips quickly, making media management more efficient.

Dave Helmly has been working with Vision 3 for about year and half on this inexpensive plug-in to support our native tapeless formats in a Stereoscopic 3D workflow. This video will give you a general idea of how the plug-in works and some general guidance on setup.You can more info on the plug-in here: www.inv3.com/quicks3d

If you want to make advanced adjustments to playback speed over time, you’ll go looking for time remapping. Premiere Pro makes the process very simple, though you may find yourself turning to After Effects for a fine finish. This lesson shows you why and how.

For Tutorial Tuesday, we have Josh from Retooled.net explaining some of the changes in the Feathered Edge options for the Crop tool in Premiere Pro CC.

Chris and Trish Meyer have posted some quick tutorials on importing and rendering C4D projects in the upcoming version of After Effects CC.

Have you ever wondered why your third party transition plug-ins for Premiere Pro don’t show up under Video Transitions, like the native Transitions effects do? I have a work around for you, using an Adjustment Layer.