After Effects News 2018 October #2
This time in the world of After Effects, version 16 has been released, with tracking and expressions and features...
Automatic animation with expressions
Have you ever wished you could just press a button and have After Effects do all of the work...
Managing complex expressions in After Effects
Expressions in After Effects are a powerful tool for animation, but while they can be as simple as the...
AE Project Diary: 4) Mixing up a cake with maths
I like cakes a lot, especially cakes with lots of layers. After Effects also has lots of layers, but...
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...
Measuring Rotation in After Effects
Last week, we posted a short tutorial on using expressions to measure the distance between two points. This was...
Automatic versioning in After Effects
No-one likes boring and repetitive work, so this After Effects tutorial demonstrates how to create many different versions of...
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...
Z-Depth from 3D After Effects layers
I recently posted a video tutorial that demonstrates how to generate a z-depth map from Particular, and then use...
Z-Depth compositing with Particular – Part 2
Trapcode’s Particular is probably the most popular 3rd party plugin for After Effects, and amongst its many powerful features...
