Watch solid shapes break apart like they're made of liquid gross crap. This is kind of how cells divide. But not really. Someone asked me about how to divide cells and after I told them what I read on wikipedia and they said they just needed to animate it I told them to just draw it. But really there is a simpler solution, with much much less drawing.
It uses the often overlooked roughen edges effect and it's pretty darn versatile. You'll be making cool stuff with this in no time... or space.
Flickering transitions are so hot right now, but all I have in premiere are these dumb fades! Well fear not, there's hope with the ability to keyframe things and add effects in Premiere. I'll show ...
Want to make things flicker in after effects... well there are many way to make that happen. Keyframes, effects, and expressions. This is less of a tutorial and more of a lesson on all the ways you...
This year (2015) Adobe has put a little more face tracking spice in you After Effects gumbo. But does it pass mustard? Find out in this tutorial and review of this new feature. It all started out q...
Watch solid shapes break apart like they're made of liquid gross crap. This is kind of how cells divide. But not really. Someone asked me about how to divide cells and after I told them what I read...
The new sourceRectAtTime() can get you the width and height of text and shape layers. It's new but it's good. If you have Ae CC 2014.2 (aka 13.2.0.0) then you can enjoy this. If you don't have that...
Create lower 3rds that change their size depending on how long the text is. Perfect for anyone looking to make better templates with more dynamic elements. This relies heavily on expressions and us...
Put thing in a scene, like IN the scene. As in behind things that you already filmed. It's quite simple and the computer does most of the work so we'll make it go. The process is just 3 little step...
Reveal letters with liquid blobs. BONUS a trick to use onion skinning in after effects. It's dirt simple and sadly there is no trick to to making this clean look, but this will save you time. The u...
You ever see that teaser for the Hunger Games Mocking Jay, the one with the white text slowly extruding. It looks great, and this is how to make that in Adobe After Effects.
You want to put a sign over someone that's tracked to their head, but they keep moving around and you don't have a 3d object tracker? Don't worry about it! With this method you don't need one and y...
Extrude layered text with the RayTraced 3d settings in Adobe After Effects. You don't need fancy pants plugins like "element". If you like that kind of thing go nuts, but you have Open GL rendering...
Long shadows are so hot right now. Here is a quick and easy way to make some using the repeater and some shape layers, ANY shape layer. It's not the same as using a drop shadow that's for sure. Thi...
If you like just hearing my voice without learning anything you can use this is the playlist for you. Here I just talk at you. Sometimes I answer viewer questions. Sometimes i expound on topics I care about in the Morgaph world. And sometimes we rap about design theory and less "practical" aspects of animation. So it's a worthwhile thing too.
Split video with lines, then make that video do wacky and interesting stuff. Sure makes that boring old line seem more interesting now! I've seen this in a video on the music television and someone...
So you want to make some motion typography? Maybe some lyric videos? How about some fancy moving word show? Well you are in luck because it all starts right here with how to sync up animations to a...
So you want to make a sequence of animations or something cascading or who knows what. Well in short you go animation / keyframe assistant / Sequence Layers... but if that were all there was to it ...
Draw, animate, repeat. Always repeat. They say Pete and Repeat tried to amke flat style burst embellishments. Pete made like 3 keyframes, duplicated a bunch and was done before lunch. Who was left?...
Want to connect some dots? Well I'll clear up how to do that and connect the dots on how to connect some dots? Wow that's terrible. I could really use some help writing these descriptions.
Here are the keys to successful chroma keying... and terrible pun making. All you need is one chromatic green bed sheet. Which you can get at most swedish bedding stores. And then someone to stand ...