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30+ Movie Title Tutorials

Tutorial • Beginner

Filmmaker IQ collected 30 Movie Title Tutorials for After Effects for your convenience. It's similar to Aetuts+ new "Sessions" series, for example Action...

Rich Young • 5 Apr 2011
Motion Graphics

CopyMask2Layer: New After Effects Script

Tutorial • Beginner

CopyMask2Layer is a new After Effects script at AE Scripts. I think everybody has run into a problem once or twice when trying to move masks around from one...

Rich Young • 4 Apr 2011
Motion Graphics

Nesting and ETLAT

Tutorial • Beginner

Chris and Trish Meyer posted another part in their series CMG Hidden Gems: Chapter 18 – Nesting. The focus here is on how to efficiently navigate and edit a...

Rich Young • 2 Apr 2011
Motion Graphics

Vignettes in After Effects

Tutorial • Beginner

Harry Frank posted notes and a free AE preset in a new quicktip, Easy Vignette? Use the Circle Effect. For more on the Circle effect see Maltaannon's...

Rich Young • 25 Mar 2011
Motion Graphics

AME for After Effects Renders

Tutorial • Beginner

Graymachine takes a quick look in a new tutorial, Rendering AE Projects with Adobe Media Encoder. AME has some advantages (the MP4 codec is a win; more),...

Rich Young • 15 Mar 2011
Motion Graphics

The Rotation Problem Explained

Tutorial • Beginner

The Guerrilla CG Project website is down by restricted access but some of the video lives on Vimeo. In honor of Pi Day, below are a couple of videos on...

Rich Young • 14 Mar 2011
Motion Graphics

CMG Hidden Gems: 3D, Camera, Lights

Tutorial • Beginner

Chris and Trish Meyer recently posted some tips on orienting yourself in After Effects 3D. If you're an advanced user (aren't we all), be warned, you're...

Rich Young • 13 Mar 2011
Motion Graphics

JavaScript Concepts for AE Scripts

Tutorial • Beginner

Jesse Toula posted Part 1 of Scripting for After Effects. "Part 1 will go over the basic JavaScript concepts that will be needed to create your first...

Rich Young • 4 Mar 2011
Motion Graphics

Aetuts+ Photoshop Contest - Voting Closed

Tutorial • Beginner

We just wrapped up the Aetuts+ Photoshop Contest where your goal was to create an animation based off of or inspired by a tutorial on Psdtuts+. Below are the...

Adam Everett Miller • 3 Mar 2011
Motion Graphics

Creating Smoke with CC Particle Effects

Tutorial • Beginner

You may remember Chad Perkins from such movies as After Effects CS5 Essential Training on Lynda.com. He's started a web venture Movies and Computers, which...

Rich Young • 3 Mar 2011
Motion Graphics

A Fold Effect Tutorial

Tutorial • Beginner

Jeff McIntosh of JMDesign posted AE Fold Effect Tutorial on Vimeo.

Rich Young • 3 Mar 2011
Motion Graphics

Control Layers For Character Animation

Tutorial • Beginner

Angie Taylor has a 3rd tutorial, Control Layers in Adobe After Effects for character animation, from her inexpensive introductory training set 2D Character...

Rich Young • 3 Mar 2011