After Effect Tutorials

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1	Background Creation Tips and Tricks:The RAGE Background In this part two, Dean uses cloud layers created in Photoshop and applies filters to create an interesting red and black, almost fiery look. He calls it Rage.	288
2	Background Creation Tips and Tricks: Starfield In this part three of the series, Dean uses cloud layers created in Photoshop and applies filters to create a starfield background.	247
3	Background Creation Tips and Tricks: Fire In this part four of the series, Dean uses a big X created in Photoshop and uses a variety of blend modes, effects, and adjustment layers in After Effects to create a fiery background.	216
4	Background Creation Tips and Tricks: Futuristic There are many ways to create backgrounds in After Effects and many of us have our own special ways of doing this.	256
5	3D Watch Animation: Part 1 In this video tutorial, Creative Cow member Eran Stern shows you how to use Photoshop CS3 Extended to create different images of a 3D watch.	263
6	Creating Text with Adobe Illustrator for After Effects This tutorial is in response to the many requests about how to use Adobe Illustrator to make the text files for the 'Animating Skies and Writing Text with Light' tutorial Mark Simpson wrote demonstrating the Foundry 'Tinderbox' set of Plug-ins	210
7	Interlacing Progressive Footage Interlacing Progressive Footage We've all heard of de-interlacing footage, but what about re-interlacing? Marco Solorio of OneRiver Media shows us how -- and why -- to create interlaced footage from a progressive source. The results are picture perfect!	198
8	Creating a 3D Filmstrip or Flowing Ribbon In this quick tutorial, Serge Hamad uses Zaxwerks Invigorator to create a 3D Filmstrip. This method is also useful for creating those flying ribbons that are so popular in the commercials now. You'll need Invigorator classic for this.	230
9	Understanding Custom Edges In this tutorial, Creative Cow leader Serge Hamad demonstrates everything you need to know about creating a Custom Edge in Zaxwerks Invigorator and ProAnimator.	249
10	Animating the Universal Cow After Effects 5 has some powerful 3D compositing features and some new tools that make complicated animations a snap. In this tutorial we will use parenting, expressions and Boris 3D text to recreate the Universal movie opening (sort' a).	211
11	Making a Real Aperture: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Illustrator Rick Gerard explores some methods of simulating a camera lens. In this tutorial, Rick uses Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects to create the aperture.	229
12	Morphing With Adobe Illustrator Rick Gerard, a frequent visitor and contributor in the Creative COW After Effects Community explores some methods of morphing text using new features in Adobe Illustrator 9.0.	202
13	Faking An Iris: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sphere! Rick Gerard explores some methods of simulating a camera lens. In this tutorial, Rick uses the Boris Sphere Plug-In for After Effects.	267
14	Understanding the use of square vs non-square pixels in AE Rick Gerard gives a glimpse of the inner workings of Adobe After Effects and explains exactly how AE mixes square and rectangular pixels. You'll never worry again about how to interpret footage.	182
15	Using Projection Layers to create a gobos and projector type effects Rick Gerard explains the use of the Light Transmission property added to Layer Material Options in After Effects 5.5. Basic and advanced techniques demonstrate only a few creative possibilities opened up by this exciting new feature.	190
16	Animating a Camera: Tracking to a Null Object Rick Gerard presents a five minute tutorial movie, you'll learn how to simplify animating a camera over a still image and how to control where the camera is looking by tracking the movement of a null with a simple expression.	232
17	Expressing the Camera: Animating Along a Path Rick Gerard presents a five minute tutorial movie in which you'll learn how to simplify animating a camera over a still image and how to orient the camera along a path using expressions to gain compete complete control.	223
18	MAKING TEXT FLY When Marcus Gedult teaches After Effects, students often ask him if there's a way to make letters fly onto the screen from multiple directions and form a word. They want to avoid animating each letter on a separate layer and can you blame them?	248
19	Using the AE CS3 Puppet Tool with Motion Particles In this article, Toolfarm's Jim Geduldick talks about his workflow for using Apple Motion's particles with the AE CS3's Puppet tool.	315
20	Building a 3D Grid/Video Screen in After Effects John Fischer created a much more in-depth version of a combination of tutorials done by www.ayatoweb.com in response to several inquiries in the AE forum at Creativecow. This is a fairly time-intensive tutorial, but the end results are worth it!	185
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