Video and Audio Tutorials

Text Tool in After Effects 6.0 - Page 2

In the Tool Palette, click on the Text Tool. If you have Auto Open Palettes option checked, the Character Palette will open. If it does …

Text Tool in After Effects 6.0 - Page 3

Twirl down the arrow next to the Text Layer in the Timeline to reveal the properties for layer. As with all other layers created in Aft …

Text Tool in After Effects 6.0 - Page 4

So we don’t get lost, click on Animator 1 so it is the only thing highlighted in the Timeline. Press the Enter key and rename the …

Text Tool in After Effects 6.0 - Page 5

Reset the Start, End, and Offset values (0, 3, 0). With our range selected (all of the letters), we can make an adjustment to our Scale …

Text Tool in After Effects 6.0 - Page 6

This is all well and good, but we can still see the giant letters at the beginning of our animation and it doesn’t look very good …

Text Tool in After Effects 6.0 - Page 7

Twirl down the Advanced controls. Change the Shape to Ramp Up. The Shape controls how the characters are selected between the Start and …

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 …

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