After Effects Tutorials

Adding 3D to Flash projects using After Effects When I started learning Adobe After Effects, I realized that it includes a number of fe …

Exporting your work from Flash Let’s start out by first creating a simple 2D star in Flash: Launch Flash Professional 8, create …

Importing your work into After Effects After Effects saves links to the project resources as footage items in the Project panel. Footag …

Converting a 2D layer into a 3D layer After Effects uses two dimensions (x, y) to display the 2D layer. When you convert the layer to a …

Animating the 3D layer To give you a greater understanding of the 3D layer option, give your star some dimensionality by animating it i …

Exporting your animation After Effects provides a variety of options for integrating an animation with Flash, such as video output, Fla …

3D layers in motion Excerpted from “After Effects and Photoshop, Animation and Production Effects for DV and Film” by Jeff Foster. …

Parent the layers and add text Now we will connect the two halves of the film reel so they will move in sync with each other. Select …

Position lights and layers From this point, we will be working in several views on our scene to help us position our lights and layers: …

Casting Shadows in After Effects 6.5 Different types of shadows in 3D space To make a truly believable 3D space in Adobe After Effects, …

The ‘Pan Behind’ Tool in Adobe After Effects Keyframing content beneath a mask to create a magnify effect This is a somewha …

Basic project setupFor our sample project, we’ll create a composition that simulates a magnify on a layer, in this case magnifyin …

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