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Creating a 3D Kaleidoscope with Trapcode Form

Tutorial • Beginner

Aharon Rabinowitz has a new QuickTip on Creating 3D Kaleidoscopic Effects. There's also some resources on 2D kaleidoscopes below the fold.

Rich Young • 2 Mar 2011
Motion Graphics

Put Out A Flamethrower Lookin' Fire Using Particular

Tutorial • Intermediate

I think everyone has tried to create a realistic, organic flame at some point. Today, without using any difficult simulation software like Realflow or Maya...

Hugo Tromp • 23 Feb 2011
Motion Graphics

Endlessly Zoom Into Your Own Droste Effect

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this Basix tutorial, we'll learn how to create the Droste Effect in Adobe After Effects. We'll be be parenting our footage to precomps and scaling to give...

Noah Litvin • 21 Feb 2011
Motion Graphics

The Blend Effect

Tutorial • Beginner

Effects A-Z: The Blend Effect is new 3-minute tip on Motionworks. There's more on this old filter for animating some blends in AE Help.

Rich Young • 20 Feb 2011
Motion Graphics

A Galactic Orb in After Effects

Tutorial • Beginner

In a new tutorial at Video Copilot, Galactic Orb, Andrew Kramer builds a zoom animation inside a glassy sphere in After Effects with only built-in plug-ins:

Rich Young • 14 Feb 2011
Motion Graphics

Charts and Graphs in After Effects

Tutorial • Beginner

On one level creating and animating charts and graphs in After Effects is easy, but it can get tricky quick if you go much beyond transformed shapes or the...

Rich Young • 14 Feb 2011
Motion Graphics

Omino Python: Python Plug-in for After Effects

Tutorial • Beginner

David Van Brink (@polyomino) released Omino Python, a free After Effects CS5 plug-in for Mac OS X only (for now) that embeds a Python interpreter:

Rich Young • 14 Feb 2011
Motion Graphics

Monologue AE Render Manager

Tutorial • Beginner

Monologue AE Render Manager is a new free utility from Monologue, a motion design studio in Greece. It's an After Effects command-line interface GUI for...

Rich Young • 10 Feb 2011
Motion Graphics

What Do You Want From Us In 2011?

Tutorial • Beginner

As you may have noticed, Aetuts+ has felt a little different here in 2011. We've recently brought on Rich Young to cover After Effects related news. We want...

Adam Everett Miller • 4 Feb 2011
Motion Graphics

SearchAndEditBundle on AE Scripts

Tutorial • Beginner

The SearchAndEditBundle from Paul Tuersley on AE Scripts puts 3 scripts together for the price of two: pt_EffectSearch, pt_ExpressEdit, & pt_TextEdit....

Rich Young • 3 Feb 2011
Motion Graphics

Quick Tip – Create The Vintage Old Photo Look

Tutorial • Beginner

Going along with our Aetuts+ Photoshop Contest of using tutorials from other Tuts+ sites, in this tutorial we will be exploring ways in which to create the...

Matt Nikkila • 2 Feb 2011
Motion Graphics

ft-Toolbar: Custom Toolbar Script for After Effects

Tutorial • Beginner

AE Scripts has released ft-Toolbar by Francois Tarlier. This script gives the ability to make your own custom toolbar in After Effects with effects, presets...

Rich Young • 31 Jan 2011