How to create a polished metal text effect using After Effects.

This tutorial will set up the popular "popping" animation effect and will use the new CS4 Wiggle Transform operator.

Animating your After Effects design in 3D space is fun and easy, with a few camera tricks, to create pure, cool cinematography...

In this two-part tutorial, J. Schuh demonstrates how to animate a layered image of a butterfly using After Effects CS4.

In this two-part tutorial, J. Schuh demonstrates how to animate a layered image of a butterfly using After Effects CS4.

In this tutorial J Schuh creates some flaming chrome text in After Effects using the glow and liquefy effects.

Animated swirls are all the rage in the motion graphics world, and there are some pretty cool things that can be done with them.

Using After Effects' Shatter Effect to simulate a baseball going through a glass pane.