After Effects Quick Tip – No Plug-In Embers
So after doing a recent tutorial on how to create a fire/flame effect without using any plug-ins, and then posting the animation preset for it for free download, I still […]
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04, 2014
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04, 2014
AE Quick Tip – Improving Your Green Screen
I’m no stranger to fixing poorly-lit green screen footage for chroma keying. But before I get down to the nitty-gritty of masking, edging and stacking, there’s a little trick that I like […]
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04, 2012
After Effects Quick Tip – Creating custom animation presets
If you’ve spent ages tweaking that huge stack of effects and plug-ins to get exactly the look you’re after, it’s a good idea to save it for future use. Here’s […]
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12, 2011
After Effects Tip – How to loop a precomp
One of the questions I’m asked the most is ‘why don’t I have insert CC effect name here in my copy of After Effects?’ To which the short answers are […]
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12, 2011
After Effects Tip – Lens Blur cheat
If you’ve ever used the Lens Blur effect in AE, you’ll know that it’s an unwieldy beast at the best of times, and tends to be one of those things […]
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03, 2011
After Effects Tip – Missing animation presets
I’ve had a couple of people ask me why they don’t seem to have any of the animation presets that I often used in my tutorials. At first, I thought […]
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11, 2010
Ten really useful After Effects shortcut keys
Here's a video with some of my favourite of the more obscure AE keyboard shortcuts - I'm not talking U, PG Down etc - and how they can be used to speed up your workflow.
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07, 2010
After Effects Tip – Giving yourself more room
If you have a project with a too many layers in it, you can use this quick shortcut to give yourself more room (really handy if you're working on a notebook PC).
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07, 2010
After Effects Tip – Easy radial rays
I used to use a stupidly complex method to create radial rays (grid+polar coordinates), but there's actually a much easier way to do it!
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07, 2010
After Effects Tip – Cycling blending modes
There are 38 blending modes in After Effects - here's a quick tip to finding the one you need quickly and easily.
