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After Effects Hidden Gems: Set First Vertex
A common trick is to use the Stroke effect to wipe on a line along a mask path. You...
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After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Guide Layers
Using After Effects is often the art of combining multiple layers and elements to create a pleasing final composite...
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After Effects Hidden Gems: Temporary Tools
If you’re an After Effects user, you’re familiar with the Tools panel along top of the user interface. However,...
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After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Tracking with Nulls
Motion tracking in Adobe After Effects is usually about making a new layer follow the movement of a target...
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After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Effects Instancing
It’s common to re-use the same effects and settings throughout an Adobe After Effects project to create a consistent...
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After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Alpha Add Mode
If you haven’t run into this yet, you will: Two edges that should like up perfect in After Effects...
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After Effects NAB 2015 Preview
The Adobe After Effects team makes a point of regularly polling its users to hear what they might want...
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After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly
Next week, all the new gadgets announced at the NAB show will be grabbing our attention and asking for...
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AE + C4D: Some Minor Assembly Required
We’re fans of the Live 3D Pipeline workflow between After Effects CC and CINEMA 4D Lite. And Adobe has...
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Easy Flying Logos with AE + C4D Lite (+ Illustrator)
One of the most common, bread-and-butter motion graphics jobs you’re going to get is to take your client’s flat,...