After Effects News 2018 October #2

Written by Rich Young

October 18, 2018

This time in the world of After Effects, version 16 has been released, with tracking and expressions and features...

Automatic animation with expressions

Written by Chris Zwar

August 1, 2018

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

Written by Chris Zwar

May 13, 2018

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

Written by Chris Zwar

August 25, 2017

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

Written by Chris and Trish Meyer

November 10, 2015

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

Written by Chris and Trish Meyer

July 13, 2015

Last week, we posted a short tutorial on using expressions to measure the distance between two points. This was...

Automatic versioning in After Effects

Written by Chris Zwar

May 1, 2015

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

Written by Chris and Trish Meyer

April 27, 2015

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

Written by Chris Zwar

September 20, 2014

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

Written by Chris Zwar

September 2, 2014

Trapcode’s Particular is probably the most popular 3rd party plugin for After Effects, and amongst its many powerful features...