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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
Motion Graphics

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