After Effects Hidden Gems: Set First Vertex

Written by Chris and Trish Meyer

May 18, 2015

A common trick is to use the Stroke effect to wipe on a line along a mask path. You...

After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Guide Layers

Written by Chris and Trish Meyer

May 11, 2015

Using After Effects is often the art of combining multiple layers and elements to create a pleasing final composite...

After Effects Hidden Gems: Temporary Tools

Written by Chris and Trish Meyer

May 4, 2015

If you’re an After Effects user, you’re familiar with the Tools panel along top of the user interface. However,...

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...

After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Effects Instancing

Written by Chris and Trish Meyer

April 20, 2015

It’s common to re-use the same effects and settings throughout an Adobe After Effects project to create a consistent...

After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Alpha Add Mode

Written by Chris and Trish Meyer

April 13, 2015

If you haven’t run into this yet, you will: Two edges that should like up perfect in After Effects...

After Effects NAB 2015 Preview

Written by Chris and Trish Meyer

April 8, 2015

The Adobe After Effects team makes a point of regularly polling its users to hear what they might want...

After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly

Written by Chris and Trish Meyer

April 7, 2015

Next week, all the new gadgets announced at the NAB show will be grabbing our attention and asking for...

AE + C4D: Some Minor Assembly Required

Written by Chris and Trish Meyer

January 29, 2015

We’re fans of the Live 3D Pipeline workflow between After Effects CC and CINEMA 4D Lite. And Adobe has...