Posts bysteve holmes

Changing the look, feel, atmosphere, temperature, and mood in an After Effects 3D scene can make all the difference to your animation.

One of the toughest things to achieve in After Effects is a true feeling of space, environment, and temperature even.

Without a doubt, the best new feature in After Effects CS3 is the Vanishing Point Exchange with Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended.

Dig under the hood and, using some very interesting techniques, a whole army of moving, synchronized shapes can be created from something that seemed so harmless to begin with. This is something the manuals won’t show you.

Let’s face it: After Effects is amazing. If anyone on this planet would tell you that, it’s me. Anything you want to do, you can do-as long as you know the way to do it.

Using a combination of type, 3D layers, repetitive expressions, parenting, and masking – a very striking title sequence can be created from just a …

In fact, armed with some clever techniques and careful planning, you can create very unique IDs in a very short space of time.

Using a combination of type, 3D layers, repetitive expressions, parenting, and masking, a very striking title sequence can be created from a very few elements.