This is a Basix Quick Tip on how to import a 3d file (.3DS, .DAEm, .KMZ, .U3D, .OBJ) into After Effects so you can rotate and manipulate the model right without having to ever leave AE.
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Welcome to Basix, our area for beginners. If you're just learning the ropes, or find many of our intermediate and advanced tutorials too challenging, the tutorials and articles here have been selected just for you.
Create Whispy Spirit-like Text
Twice a month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from back in the archives of Aetuts+. Today we’ll look at a Quick Tutorial I posted back in May 2009. I was playing with the good ol’ built in CC plugins and came up with a fun technique. I used CC Smear as the basis to create text that appears in as if a spirit whisped into it.
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Quick Tip – Create A 3D Bouncing Logo
Hello everyone! Today’s tutorial will show you how to create 3D text and then make it bounce it with a simple expression. This effect is quite cool because you can easily modify or change the characters to words, symbols, or even shape layers.
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Endlessly Zoom Into Your Own Droste Effect
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 the illusion of an infinite zoom.
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Quick Tips and Hints Inside of After Effects
There are some things about After Effects that slip our minds every now and again. Little shortcuts that are able to shave off five seconds here, and a minute there, it can greatly incease your workflow and allow you to work smarter and faster. Some of these you might know, and you probably have some of your own to contribute, so let us know in the comments what your favorite tricks are in your workflow.
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The Wonderful World Of Shapes In After Effects
This tutorial provides you with the fundamentals of shape layers and shape effects. We will have a closer look at the most important functionalities and develop some basic examples. The topics covered will give you a good start to realize and design your own projects using shape layers.
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Adding Elements To Your Film Footage – AE Basix
Instead of starting from scratch when making a new motion piece I like to use filmed footage and add stuff onto it. I think it’s a great and fast way of learning new tools and presets in After Effects.
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A Funky Introduction To SoundKeys – A Celebration Of Color
In this third and last part of the three parts tutorial on Sound Keys, I will guide you step by step (more or less…) through the process of creating that Celebration of Color with Sound Keys, Particular and Form.
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A Funky Introduction To SoundKeys – Putting It To Work
This is the second of three parts tutorial on one of the most useful plug-ins around when it comes to working with audio – “Sound Keys“.
In this part I will introduce you to some more advanced uses of Sound Keys such as integrating it with other effects, time remap, and the ever popular lips sinking.
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A Funky Introduction To SoundKeys – Interface Overview
This is the first of a three part tutorial on one of the most useful plug-in around when it comes to working with audio – “Sound Keys“.
In this part I will introduce you to the sound keys interface with and we will take a look at the very basic ways you can apply it to your work .
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