Learn about Motion Graphics

Make your videos more engaging by using dynamic motion graphics. Learn all the secrets of working with motion graphics, and find the best templates to save you time.

All Motion Graphics tutorials:

  1. Stroke FX from Video Copilot

    Stroke FX from Video Copilot

    Tutorial Beginner

    Andrew Kramer is back quickly with Stroke FX, another tutorial that uses the built-in Vegas filter in After Effects...

  2. Shatter: Classic Tour by Its Inventor

    Shatter: Classic Tour by Its Inventor

    Tutorial Beginner

    Total Training has opened the vault to free some classic tutorials by Brian Maffitt with a comprehensive tour of the Shatter plug-in. Brian says that...

  3. Spirals and After Effects

    Spirals and After Effects

    Tutorial Beginner

    Spirals are used as design guides and elements or paths for text, shapes, and particles. Here's a few resources for using and creating spirals in After...

  4. Wrapping Text Around a Circle in After Effects

    Wrapping Text Around a Circle in After Effects

    Tutorial Beginner

    Angie Taylor posted a quick tip on Wrapping text around a circle in After Effects. There's another intro tutorial on the "newer" way to do path text here...

  5. Tracking A Futuristic High Tech Floating Interface – Day 2

    Tracking A Futuristic High Tech Floating Interface – Day 2

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Today is the second part of this tutorial. We'll create a similar high tech floating interface tracked to a DVD disk. First, we're going to take a quick look...

  6. Tracking A Futuristic High Tech Floating Interface – Day 1

    Tracking A Futuristic High Tech Floating Interface – Day 1

    Tutorial Intermediate

    I created this tutorial inspired from this music video... today, we'll create a similar high tech floating interface tracked to a DVD disk. First, we're...

  7. Create a Super Realistic Day for Night Shot Day 2

    Create a Super Realistic Day for Night Shot Day 2

    Tutorial Advanced

    This tutorial demonstrates how to turn some generic daytime footage into a beautiful day-for-night shot. We will make use of a variety of techniques to get...

  8. How to Track Live Video to a Postcard

    How to Track Live Video to a Postcard

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Twice a month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from back in the archives of Aetuts+. Today we’ll look at a rockin' post from Mathias Möhl. This...

  9. Grow From Young To Old In 2.5 Seconds

    Grow From Young To Old In 2.5 Seconds

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Have you ever wondered "What can I do to stay young?"... Well in this tutorial we are going to do the exact opposite - we are going to rapidly age a young...

  10. 29 Examples of Great Furniture Models from 3docean

    29 Examples of Great Furniture Models from 3docean

    Tutorial Beginner

    When furniture models are done right, they can almost go unnoticed in a scene. But after looking over these examples from 3docean, it dawned on me just how...

  11. Capture The Moment With A Bullet Time Muzzle Flash

    Capture The Moment With A Bullet Time Muzzle Flash

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In today's tutorial, we will be looking at a Bullet Time freeze effect that I created in After Effects. All the effects were done in AE, using 2D source...

  12. Jump Into An Animated Freeze Frame Sequence

    Jump Into An Animated Freeze Frame Sequence

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Today, were going to take a look at using expressions to simplify and speed up your workflow. We'll be using an animated jump sequence to demonstrate the use...