Thursday, August 20, 2009 No Comments
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create an effect which has surely caught your eye before (for example in files such as this one), the Pixel Explosion. During the process of making it we’ll learn how to extract BitmapData from a MovieClip, how to use a tweening engine and how to use event listeners.
Thursday, July 2, 2009 No Comments
In a very clever use of Trapcode Particular, this tutorial shows us how to create an effect that is inspired by the Bourne Ultimatum end credits sequence.
Category: After Effects
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 No Comments
Starting with nothing more than a few still photographs, learn how to create this dynamic burning building VFX shot.
Tags: effect
Category: After Effects
Sunday, June 21, 2009 No Comments
In this tutorial you will learn some good fundamentals on how to create a type reveal with an interesting background and environment. You will learn how to use all built-in tools and plugins to create a faux underwater scene complete with a bubbly type reveal. Simple.
Tags: effect, underwater
Category: After Effects
Thursday, June 11, 2009 No Comments
This tutorial teaches you how to turn an ordinary photo into a terrifying zombie image, all in less than 20 steps.
Monday, June 8, 2009 No Comments
It’s amazing how much pseudo-3D you can do in After Effects today. This tutorial will focus on using a new plugin that brings 3D bicubic deformations to layers that allows you to truly bend and twist layers in 3D space. If you are familiar with 3D packages, this is true displacement as opposed to just bump mapping.
Tags: effect
Category: After Effects
Monday, June 8, 2009 No Comments
In this tutorial he breaks down how to create the incredibly popular light rays effect and how to package it all into a custom effect.
Tags: effect
Category: After Effects
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 No Comments
Wes Kandel is back to show us how to combine geometric shapes made in Illustrator and then imported and animated in After Effects to create his very cool Geometrika piece.
Tags: effect, Screencast
Category: After Effects
Thursday, April 30, 2009 No Comments
So in this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a spray paint effect using After Effects. It’s a fairly simple process but I’ve got a few tricks that you may not have thought of.
Category: After Effects
