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 content:

  1. Aetuts+ Photoshop Contest - Voting Closed

    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...

  2. Creating Smoke with CC Particle Effects

    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...

  3. A Fold Effect Tutorial

    A Fold Effect Tutorial

    Tutorial Beginner

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

  4. Control Layers For Character Animation

    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...

  5. Creating a 3D Kaleidoscope with Trapcode Form

    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.

  6. Put Out A Flamethrower Lookin' Fire Using Particular

    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...

  7. Endlessly Zoom Into Your Own Droste Effect

    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...

  8. The Blend Effect

    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.

  9. A Galactic Orb in After Effects

    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:

  10. Charts and Graphs in After Effects

    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...

  11. Omino Python: Python Plug-in for After Effects

    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:

  12. Monologue AE Render Manager

    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...