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Top 5 Time Saving Short Cuts in After Effects

29. May 2009

The following 5 short cuts will save you in expensive pain medication from staring at your screen for far too many hours. I know they’ve saved me in the past. Here’s a little video I did for this article to grab screenshots and such. We won’t be learning how to do this today, but maybe [...]

Velocity Control in After Effects

16. April 2008

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Velocity Control in After Effects Tutorial from Go Media on Vimeo. This is a short, quick and easy tutorial showing how to use the graph editor to control the velocity of keyframes within after effects. I go over using the easy ease function and how to manipulate the bezier curves using the graph editor. This is [...]

Ink Bleeding Effect in After Effects (Like Gnarls)

2. April 2008

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Ink Bleeding Effect in After Effects (Like Gnarls)

Ink Bleeding Effect from Go Media on Vimeo. ANIMATING WITH INK EFFECTS (software required: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects with Trapcode’s Particular) In this tutorial I’ll recreate a similar look from an older Gnarls Barkley video. The principles I’ll cover are foundational and can be used for some incredible animations other than simply imitating a great music video. Some [...]

Animating Spray Paint and Stencil Effect in After Effects

8. October 2007

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Animating Spray Paint and Stencil Effect in After Effects

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. Here is a sample video of what you’ll be creating: Here are the AE project files. So let’s begin. 1.) Open [...]

Animating Birds with After Effects

28. February 2007

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Introduction: Source File Like a lot of motion designers I spend many hours trying to accomplish complex animations in a short amount of time, while attempting to optimize my workflow within After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator. This tutorial utilizes Trapcodes Particular, which is one of After Effects more popular 3rd party plugins. Creating an animation like a [...]

An Angel Grows Wings. Animated Mask in Flash

19. January 2007

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Download the Source File Here (INCLUDES THREE FREE VECTOR DESIGNS!) Introduction Like most Flash Motion Graphics designers, I am regularly perusing the web for design inspiration. I don’t know about you, but when I saw complex design elements like plants and tribal shapes grow on screen right before my eyes, I wanted to know how they [...]