Mathias Moehl published a new tutorial on Mamoworld on working to bring type to life with the Puppet tool, Bring Your Letters to Life. Mathias shows how to use his KeyTweak script to modify several Puppet Pins at once and several keyframes of each pin at once.
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CopyMask2Layer is a new After Effects script at AE Scripts. I think everybody has run into a problem once or twice when trying to move masks around from one layer to another… Luckily, Mathias Möhl brings a fun solution to the table.
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Jesse Toula posted Part 1 of Scripting for After Effects.
“Part 1 will go over the basic JavaScript concepts that will be needed to create your first script. This tutorial will not turn you into an expert, but it will give you a starting point and a basic understanding of the capabilities of scripts and how they can help improve your work-flow.”
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Francois Tarlier released ft-Effect Instance on AE Scripts…
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The SearchAndEditBundle from Paul Tuersley on AE Scripts puts 3 scripts together for the price of two: pt_EffectSearch, pt_ExpressEdit, & pt_TextEdit. These 3 scripts lets you search and edit Text, effects, and expressions throughout AE projects at once — very handy for more complicated projects.
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In day 2 Lloyd finishes the tutorial and shows how to use scripts to split up and animate a logo into hundreds of pieces. He also adds the finishing touches including an alternate ending not shown in the preview. Even though scripts might be perceived as advanced tools, this tutorial aims to shatter this myth and guarantees you will feel comfortable using scripts to help automate and improve the speed of your work.
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In this 2 part tutorial we revisit the Cinematic Opening concept with an homage to all of you, our readers, by enshrining all of the comments left on the site in a “ready for Hollywood” delivery. It features a clever use of freely available scripts and expressions to create what would normally be a very complicated and time-consuming animation. The tutorial will be split into 2 days with a total of over 80 minutes of training.
In day 1 we cover cunning techniques to harness a large amount of text and quickly format and animate it in a cinematic style. This tutorial has tricks and techniques that should appeal to all users from beginners all the way to the most seasoned and advanced users of After Effects.
And best of all, it is all created by only using built it After Effects tools!
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