Text Tool in After Effects 6.0 – Page 8

Think I’m going to stop right there? Guess again. We still have one more row of text to add.Select the Text Tool again and in the …

Displacement Filter in After Effects

Article Focus:Two of the less well known features of After Effects’ Production Bundle are the Time Displacement Filter and the Di …

Time Displacement in After Effects

Time Displacement

Like Displacement Mapping, Time Displacement uses the values of one image to manipulate the pixels of another image. …

Randomizing Your Animations With The Wiggler i ...

Article Focus:One of the problems that may plague animators is that their animation is too perfect ~ too clean. In this article, Jim Ti …

Introduction to the Shatter Effect in After Ef ...

Article Focus:Now that Shatter is included in the filter set of After Effects 5.5, many users are asking how to use this effect. In thi …

Set Up The Shatter Comp

SET UP THE SHATTER COMP

We will nest both the ramp and the text compositions in a new composition:

Make a new Composition (Composi …

Adjust The Shatter Settings

Now that we have applied the effect, we will adjust the effect’s settings, as well as use our ramp composition as a gradient laye …

BRING IN THE GRADIENT LAYER

BRING IN THE GRADIENT LAYER

From your Project Window, drag the ramp composition into your shatter composition. Turn off the visib …

CHANGE YOUR RAMP

CHANGE YOUR RAMP

Go back into your ramp composition and change the ramp shape from linear ramp to radial ramp:
In your shatter c …

Panning and Zooming with After Effects 5.5

Article Focus:Pan and Zoom. In this tutorial, Matt Dallos will cover the preparation of your images, the basic theory behind making the …

Get illuminated with lighting effects

Get illuminated with lighting effects
Excerpted from “Adobe After Effects 6.5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide” by …

Create a light

Create a light
To create a light:

Do either of the following:

Choose Layer > New > Light.

Press Shift-Option-Command-L ( …

Choose light settings

Choose light settings
The options available in the Light Settings dialog box depend on the type of light you’re using. They cont …

Animating a Signature in After Effects (MAC)

Animating a Signature in After Effects5 Quick tips on mask animations, including paintby Ko MaruyamaSeveral years ago, my PaintBox init …

Animating a Signature in After Effects (MAC) & ...

StrokeThe easiest of animated strokes comes in the form of After Effects’ own Stroke plugin.1. Create a new comp (Command-N) with …

Animating a Signature in After Effects (MAC) & ...

Write onInstead of assigning a mask to stroke in this plugin, you draw a line at a certain position. The line drawn persists throughout …

Animating a Signature in After Effects (MAC) & ...

PaintIn After Effects 6, there is a cool paint feature. No, not vector paint, but real, Photoshop-style paint tools. Unfortunately, you …

Animating a Signature in After Effects (MAC) & ...

Paint for RotoIf you need to roto an existing (scanned/raster) signature, you can use either Paint or Vector Paint. I suggest you write …

Animating a Signature in After Effects (MAC) & ...

Adding a pencilTo add a writing utensil, simply import your raster art and move the anchor point to the tip of the instrument (pencil/p …

Text Tool in After Effects 6.0 (for MAC) ̵ ...

Text Tool in After Effects 6.0by Stephen SchleicherA lot of people stopped to check out the After Effects 6.0 review I wrote the other …