VihnSon Nguyen stops us in our tracks, with his new and inventive uses of built in features found in After Effects. He shows us how to use Shape Layers, Masks and 2D filters with ShapeShifter AE to create some really creative 3D animated bevels and styles. He breaks it down in an easy to follow manner and explores a free project file from mettle, called Free Bevels & Styles. Download the project file and follow along.

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Hey everyone, today we take a look at how to create a quick basic title inspired by the upcoming The Darkest Hour movie. Although very simple and rough, it does sell the effect and probably sells it better than the actual trailer itself!

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In this tutorial, we’re going to be looking at how to create and build a liquid based sphere using After Effects and Trapcode Form all while trying to make it look organic. We’ll also create it to react to our own audio file to add more use and fun to it. The tutorial will use many of the Trapcode Suite products such as Trapcode Particular and Trapcode Shine, which you can purchase at RedGiantSoftware (http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/). If you don’t have Particular or Shine, you could alternatively use CC Particle World and CC Light Burst.

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