By popular demand.. today’s tutorial will show you how to create The Hunger Games title animation. In the first part, we’ll be in Cinema 4d to create the phoenix emblem, logo letters and the dynamic animation of the camera the follows the arrow. We will then continue to After Effects for the overall composition adding the flames and fire particles.and all the graphic elements that characterize this epic animation.

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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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In this tutorial we are going to recreate the Spider-Man look inside After Effects. We are going to use some textures and offset layers in 3D space to achieve a 3D look. Also we are going to add shadows and lighting to the scene so it looks more like the original. Finally we are going to add some dust particles, some nice chrome titles and add some movement to the whole animation to give it more life.

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If you’re planning a trip and need to set up a visual location overview, you’re in luck! If you pretty much never even leave your room accept for class, work, and meals, you’re still in luck! With some expressions, good technique, and a little treasure hunting instinct, Jorrit Schulte guides us through the process of this animation journey.

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In today’s tutorial we’ll be creating the Conan title animation. In the first part, we’ll be in Cinema 4d to create and animate the logo, lights and materials along with a camera target. We will then continue to After Effects for the overall composition and all the graphic elements that characterize this epic animation.

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In this tutorial we are going to create a 3D futuristic terrain scanner. Step-by-step, we will create monochromatic displacement maps and use them to extrude the 3D mountain like shapes. We will explore the difference between the old version of FreeForm (the DigiEffects version, bundled with AE CS5) and the new FreeForm v2, which is considerably faster after having some excellent optimizations to the source code.

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In today’s tutorial we’ll be creating the Mission Impossible 4 title animation. In the first part, we’ll be in Cinema 4d to create and animate the logo, lights and materials. We will then continue to After Effects for the overall composition and all the graphic elements that characterize this particular animation. We’ll also explain how to make the fantastic ghost protocol effect.

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Do you remember that “Hypno Pre-Compulator” alien gag from the Mettle tutorials? Personally – it blew my mind when I first saw it, and I still think it’s pretty amazing you can accomplish that all inside AE! Well, I’m very happy to tell you all that the good folks at Mettle where kind enough to share their techniques with us and in this tutorial I will rebuild the “Hypno Pre-Compulator” step by step.

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It’s amazing how much pseudo-3D you can do in After Effects today. This tutorial will focus on using a new plugin that brings 3D bicubic deformations to layers that allows you to truly bend and twist layers in 3D space. If you are familiar with 3D packages, this is true displacement as opposed to just bump mapping.

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