Here’s another summary of the last week or so of news on After Effects—assorted tutorials and tools, animation aids, CC Hair, son of Ken Burns, expressions, and more.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of news on After Effects—assorted tutorials and tools with Xbox Kinect mocap, text, 3D, expressions, and more.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of news on After Effects—with assorted tutorials, scripts, demos, documentaries, and more. Please note that these roundups are for quick review and comparison, and that there is almost always vital information from the originating authors at the links provided—and often free presets, projects, or stock footage too.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of news on After Effects—with assorted tutorials, scripts, plug-ins, demos, and more. Please note that these roundups are for quick review and comparison, and that there is almost always vital information from the originating authors at the links provided—and often free presets, projects, or stock footage too.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of news on After Effects—with assorted tutorials, scripts, demos, documentaries, and more.

Here’s another week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts—with new tools, tutorials on Mocha tracking, radar animations, lens flares, wood patterns, and more.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts. The return to the regular news cycle caught idle hands by surprise with a promise of a big CS6 release, snakes in AE, tracking offscreen, plug-ins, and more.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts—it’s slower due to holidays, but there was news on a script for MIDI imports, some free projects, tutorials on type, shapes, and particles, and more.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts—including new plug-ins, scribble & write-on, Motion 5, a few “Best of” roundups, and more. Please note that these roundups are for quick review and comparison, and that there is almost always vital information from the originating authors at the links provided—and often free presets, projects, or stock footage too.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts—with lots on color, explosions, ambient occlusion, tracking, and more.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts—with a new training section on AE Scripts, a new danger in the orange and teal saga, and much more. Please note that there are additional details, presets, and/or projects on the originating websites that are not included in these overviews.

Here’s another week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts—with a sabbatical, new training service deals, more on iExpressions and Boris FX, Shapes, slow motion, HDR in AE, and more.

Here’s another week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts and more. Thanksgiving was last week but there was substance from Video Copilot, a start on some broadcast-style graphics, LED light walls & casino-style text lights, green screen tips, 3D cubes and other shapes, linking objects with lines, results of a user’s choice survey on plug-ins, and more.

 
In a new tutorial, Daniel Moreno shows you how to Create A Glittering Cabaret Light Display with Las Vegas bulb lights and make them shine in different patterns with Trapcode Starglow and Particular.

Here’s another week of some of the latest news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts and more. Last week saw a little swarm of news on organization and workflow setups, wiggles & glitches, CUDA and Premiere Pro, and more.

You can use dedicated snow filters or particle systems to create snow that can be stylized or realistic, or something less successful. There are filters built into After Effects like CC Snow, CC Particle World, and Particle Playground—or you can use 3rd-party filters like Trapcode Particular (which is AE 3D camera-aware), Boris FX Snow, Cycore FX HD Snowfall, DigiEffects Delirium Snow, and GenArts Monsters GT.

The quick tip for making an animated photo mosaic in After Effects is to generate the mosaic externally and animate with the built-in Card Dance plug-in, which can be a little tricky.

Here’s another week of some of the latest news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts and more. It was a bit slower last week, but there was plenty of news, tools, and tutorials for the restless.

The built-in lens flares in Adobe products are quite long-in-the-tooth, but there are a bunch of tutorials, filters, and real world examples to help you get beyond the common look. The most recent tutorial by VinhSon Nguyen aims to Breathe Life Back Into After Effects Lens Flares.

Adobe research scientist Wil Li has a demo of an experimental technology for creating seamless edits in interview footage that could make working with jump cuts easier. Hopefully, this technology with Content Aware seam-carving goodness will be integrated into Premiere.

Here’s another week of some of the latest news (in two parts) on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts, and related items of interest. It was busy again last week, with iExpressions (a new approach to leverage expressions), tutorials from Red Giant, workflow, cameras, and Avid moving things forward.

Walter Murch spoke at a recent Final Cut Supermeet in Boston, answering questions after his presentation. The entire video is now available, and in HD flavors.

Here’s another week of some of the latest news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts. It was busy again last week, dominated by scripts and plug-ins, old and new.

iExpressions from Mamoworld combines the power of After Effects expressions with the convenience of effect plug-ins. They allow you to use expressions without writing any code—each iExpression comes with an interface to control everything using adjustable parameters. iExpressions seems like something out of Stu Mashwitz blog on the potential of a nodes property panel, but it’s just script UI for each expression.

Here’s another week of some of the latest news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts and more. It slowed slightly last week, but there’s plenty of news, tools, and tutorials to keep even the unemployed busy.

Motionworks has a new tip on Twitter noting the limitation of Layer Styles for 3D in After Effects. You can find background this problem in Chris & Trish Meyer’s CMG Hidden Gems: Chapter 13 - 3D Space.

Joren Kandel posted 2 short videos on adding motion blur to footage: Free Motion Blur in AE and Reel Smart Motion Blur in AE, looking at built-in options and the surprisingly fast 3rd party plug-in.

Here’s another roundup of some of the latest news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts and more. It’s been another busy week, with news and tutorials on roto and compositing, and much more in inspiration, tools, and related topics.