After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Wiggle Behaviors
One of the secrets to creating eye-catching motion graphics is to make sure everything keeps moving, instead of settling...
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After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Automatic Fades
As we’ve said many times, After Effects is not an NLE – but often, it’s easier to keep everything...
After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Pixel Motion Blur
When you shoot a fast-moving object with a longer shutter time (half of the frame’s duration is the typical...
Motion Tracking, After Effects, and CINEMA 4D Lite
After Effects features a 3D Camera Tracker that examines already-shot footage and attempts to reverse-engineer where the camera was...
After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Mixing Audio
After Effects offers two ways to adjust the volume of an audio layer: the Levels parameter in the Timeline,...
After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Preserve Frame Rate
After Effects is a very logical program if you know it works underneath the hood, and a baffling mystery...
After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Dashed Lines
Lines: They show up everywhere, from underscores for text to animated elements flowing across the screen to mapping out...
After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Revealing Curved Shapes
A favorite motion graphics effect is wiping on an intricate, curved object (such as handwritten text) as if it...
After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Swarming Shapes
We were commentating on a Faceoff competition at the annual Motion Conference, where three artists have to finish an...
