In this tutorial you will learn to create a bouncing rope effect for logos or text. You will learn how to use expressions to control each letters anchor point and rotation as well as the swinging rope attached.
(Continue)
Browsing Tag
Premium
Sort by
Set Up An Intense CG Street Race Composition – AE Premium
If you’ve ever tried to shoot a car chase scene, you know how hard it is to get everything set up right. Besides being extremely difficult to reset your shots, getting the perfect angle and nailing your timing can be next to impossible unless you can find a deserted road somewhere. With this tutorial, you’ll be able to pull off shots that are guaranteed to impress (cause they’re not real). Half of the tutorials are available in AE Premium, the other half of the series is available through CG Premium… enjoy!
(Continue)
Download The New Cube Dance Custom Effect – AE Premium
In its simplest form Cube Dance creates cubes without you having to manually align 3D layers. This of course can be pretty useful, however, by animating a few properties, such as offset and rotation, you can choreograph very intricate movements and even create unique geometric shapes. This tutorial acts an introduction and we’ll look at installing the effect, how each of the effect properties work, and how you might set-up an animation. I hope you enjoy it!
(Continue)
Composite A Super Stellar Jet Chase Shot – AE Premium
In this step by step tutorial, you will learn how to take various elements from 3D into After Effects, using the Max2AE plug-in. These elements will include camera animation and helper objects, to use as particle emitters. You will use color adjustments to add realism to the 3D jet element. You will learn how to create contrail and exhaust particles using Trapcode Particular. You will also learn how to create 3D cloud layers in After Effects, to give a realistic flight movement. And you will learn how to add camera shake animation, to help sell the chase-plane look and feel…
(Continue)
Advanced 2D Cartoon Lip Sync Animation – AE Premium
In this tutorial we will be stepping through the process of animating an audio voice-over using mask-driven lip sync animation in After Effects. We will setup the project using phoneme mouth shape reference and various teeth and tongue layers. We will then animate the voice-over using a fluid, organic animation technique. Finally, we’ll look at how to take a master render of the animation into 3D and map it onto a 3D character, using various material techniques…
(Continue)
Achieve a Microfilm Machine Look – AE Premium
This tutorial covers a technique to create a microfilm machine look step by step. It start by searching for and analyzing references, then continues onto collecting source materials, animating the different attributes and giving the composition a final polished look. This can be useful as a motion graphics style or for rendering the contents for screen replacements in film or TV.
(Continue)
Create Your Own “Green” Earth Day Animation – AE Premium
Earth day is long gone now, but every day is a good day for earth day. In this tutorial you will learn how to simulate a water drop rolling down a leaf in a very convincing manner. With some nice depth of filed and time re-mapping to add a touch of realism, this should prove to be a very useful technique that can be used in numerous designs such as a beverage commercial, with a water drop rolling down the beverage bottle.
(Continue)
Get Caught Up In A Spider Web Tutorial – AE Premium
Learn how to use Trapcode Form to create a stylistic and dynamic Spider Web. This tutorial will show you how to “think outside the box” when it comes to using plug-ins to get away from that “preset” look.
(Continue)
After Effects vs. Nuke – AE Premium
This tutorial compares the workflow of After Effects with Nuke and is intended for After Effects users who want to familiarize themselves with the interface and want to make their first steps in Nuke.
After a short introduction of myself I start a composition in both Nuke and After Effects and compare how each step in a everyday composition is carried out in the different applications. This is not a full beginner’s tutorial on Nuke but when needed I explain necessary keyboard shortcuts and concepts.
Also this time I mention and highlight keyboard shortcuts I use to speed up the work and especially mention differences in methods between Nuke and After Effects.
(Continue)
The 12 Basic Principles of Animation Day 2 – AE Premium
So, what are the 12 Basic Principles of Animation and why should you care about them? The goal of the principles is to bring life and excitement to any animation – to take the mediocre and make it exceptional. This is the second half of this article. To view download the first half you need to go here.
(Continue)
Join our newsletter!
Freelance Jobs
Create a Tutorial, Get Paid!
Have something to teach the world? Want to earn money doing it? Tutorials, screencasts, and articles published here on Aetuts+ are largely contributed by readers just like you! We'll pay you great money for good content. Find Out More
Follow Aetuts+ and Tuts+ on Twitter