...Create dynamic swishing lights around the logo. Dive into 3D - cameras and positioning - and use the fabulous Vegas plug-in. We'll also dabble in some simple expressions....

Category: Effects       Version: AE 6.0 PB       Skill Level: Beginner

...Create a 3D basketball and give it a natural bounce with Motion Math....

Category: Effects       Version: AE 4.1       Skill Level: Beginner

...Use Fractal Noise and Cycore FX Cell Pattern to create backgrounds....

Category: Effects       Version: AE 5.5       Skill Level: Beginner

...In the Ball Action clip (4 min 06 sec), you will learn how to use the Ball Action Plugin and how to navigate through the filters associated menu. ...

Category: Effects       Version: AE 6.5       Skill Level: Beginner

...Use masks to make a bat and animate the bat flying. This is an involved tutorial in which you will use a plethora of plug-ins to create a swarm of spooky rabid vampire bats that prey on the mind, coming at you through a thick terrifying fog....

Category: Effects       Version: AE 5.0 PB       Skill Level: Intermediate

...Apply FE Ball Action to a talking head for a cool effect, like pictures on a huge screen at a hockey game. ...

Category: Effects       Version: AE 4.1 PB       Skill Level: Beginner

...Of the five free plug-ins you get when you register your copy of Adobe After Effects 5.0, perhaps the most bewildering is Card Dance. In this clip from Total Training for Adobe After Effects 5, instructor Brian Maffitt sheds some welcome light on this complex plug-in. Brian focuses in particular on using a gradient layer for animation. After a demonstration with a simple black and white gradient, Brian then uses the Card Dance layer's own luminance to animate the cards....

Category: Effects       Version: AE 4.0 PB       Skill Level: Beginner

...Create the look of the water's surface with displacement and colorama....

Category: Effects       Version: AE 5.0 PB       Skill Level: Intermediate

...There is a brick shatter map built into shatter, but this tutorial shows you how to make organic looking bricks by making a custom shatter map in Photoshop....

Category: Effects       Version: AE 5.5 PB       Skill Level: Beginner

...Morph an image by using Mesh Warp. Create some cheesy smoke with Particle Playground....

Category: Effects       Version: AE 5.0 PB       Skill Level: Intermediate

...Create your own Disco Inferno with displacement maps....

Category: Effects       Version: AE 3.1       Skill Level: Beginner

...This effect creates the appearance of light shining across text (or an object). You've seen it often and here's a cheater-template....

Category: Effects       Version: AE 5.0       Skill Level: Beginner

...This effect creates the appearance of light shining behind text (or an object), giving it a genuine faux 3D look. You've seen this one before too, now you can create it....

Category: Effects       Version: AE 5.0       Skill Level: Beginner

...Put something or someone inside a bubble using displacement maps....

Category: Effects       Version: AE 4.0 PB       Skill Level: Intermediate

...The poor, misunderstood Glow filter. It's designed to isolate lighter areas of layers and give them a glowing effect, and it does that very well, but as Brian Maffitt explains in this clip from Total AE, the Glow filter isn't designed to create a glowing aura around things like text. For an effect like that, Photoshop's "Outer Glow" layer effect would be ideal, but you don't have that option available inside After Effects. Or do you? Brian knows all and shows all!...

Category: Effects       Version: AE 4.0       Skill Level: Beginner

...This effect creates text that writes on with a strange blur, similar to the effect from the title sequence of "The Sixth Day" - a Schwartzenegger film that only 47 people saw (we were 2 of those people)....

Category: Effects       Version: AE 4.0       Skill Level: Expert

...Create lasers shooting out of someone's eyes....

Category: Effects       Version: 6.0       Skill Level: Beginner

...This is a super easy way to create this effect using a cool font and the new text capabilities in AE 6. I'll also show you a super simple method to create the brushed metal look of iTunes in AE. ...

Category: Effects       Version: AE 6.0       Skill Level: Intermediate

...A quick way to make a lightsaber, as seen in the Star Wars trilogies....

Category: Effects       Version: AE       Skill Level: Expert

...Use Particle World to enhance your sparkles....

Category: Effects       Version: 5.0       Skill Level: Intermediate