In this tutorial I show you a technique to fake a Delay Effector in After Effects. It ends up somewhat glitchy, but it could be useful to you in a project.
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In this tutorial I show a technique to have random motion on a grid using a single precomped layer, time remapping, and expressions. Make sure to check out Dan Ebbert's Lesson on Random Motion over at motionscript.com to see another way to handle this.
You thought I was going to say pants, didn't you, you pervert. :) In this tutorial we go over a cool way to get some glitchy stretch text action. Check it out!
In this tutorial we look at a technique to fold anything like a piece of paper. There's a note in the tutorial to make sure your back layer is flipped horizontally. That will make everything align correctly. If there's any text you want to be legible in your background, you definitely need to flip it.
Another cool thing you can do, and that I've done before with this technique, is to print out logos, or whatever you want to fold and then you can fold it in real life before you fold it in AE.
If you'd like, you can download the project file so you can get a better idea of how it works. The project file is also corrected. Feel free to use the project file in your work!
In this tutorial I explain an easy way to make complex text animations using After Effects' text animator.
I didn't even realize the link between the Bruce Lee quote and 'crash' text until later. But if there's anything that knows about Crashing, it's After Effects. Or at least it used to be!
This tutorial shows you how to offset a layer's expressions relative to a controller null so that you can add more layers to a comp without breaking your expressions.
I hope that this technique can help you out. I find it useful in a lot of situations. Play around with it and see what you can come up with!
This collection of quick tips for After Effects is volume one. I'll put one of these together every time I think of enough small tips to make it work.
I hope you all enjoy my crazy intros. I find them funny, and I hope you do too.
In this quick tutorial we show a quick way to cycle through some predetermined colors using an old effect, Colorama.
I was perusing the ol' Creative Cow this week, and I came across a few people that could be helped out by this classic effect.
In this week's Workbench tutorial we talk about a cool way to make parametric gears.
In this tutorial I explain how to use aerender to render After Effects projects in the background so you can work on another project at the same time.
The code used in the script is posted below for reference. When Adobe makes a new version you'll have to update the file. But once it's executable, you can easily modify it without much effort. Also, I'm not sure how this would work in Windows. I know the directory structure is different (they use backslashes for example) and I'm not sure how you'd run it. Maybe a bat file through some emulated DOS? I don't know. I haven't used Windows in quite a while. If you know, leave info in the comments!
Feel free to #! /bin/bash
/Applications/Adobe\ After\ Effects\ CC\ 2015/aerender -project "$1"Another week, another delay. I've moved into our new space and dealt with an electrical issue all afternoon that has, thankfully been resolved! Unless something crazy happens, we'll be back on track next week!
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