After Effects & Maxon Cinema 4D tutorial: Create stunning 3D graphics
Jean Pichot demonstrates how to add dynamic geometric shapes and slick typography to 3D scenes
Tutorials
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After Effects tutorial: Master puppet animation
Learn the process of designing a shadow puppet that looks as though it’s made of paper.
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After Effects tutorial: Papercut animation techniques revealed
How to produce a 2.5D scene that appears to be made out of paper, creating elements in Illustrator and then animating them in After Effects.
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After Effects & Maxon Cinema 4D tutorial: Create a fluid plastic type animation
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create fluid-based type animations where the letters are formed from liquid.
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After Effects & Photoshop tutorial: Create cosmic glows and lighting effects with particles
Learn how to produce a stunning particle animation without having to render it in 3D, then discover how to make a striking hi-res graphic from it to flesh out a branding campaign
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After Effects tutorial: Using projection mapping to film the world's tiniest police chase
The Theory explain how they created their innovative short film involving cops, cars and pico-projectors.
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After Effects tutorial: Discover projection mapping to animate photos in 3D
We Are Pitch Black apply camera mapping for enhanced realism
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After Effects tutorial: Create generative textures for print
Emilio Cassanese harnesses After Effects to make organic artwork
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After Effects tutorial: Make the most of After Effects CS6s new 3D engine
Creation and rendering of raytraced objects in After Effects CS6 positively screams with NVIDIA technology
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After Effects tutorial: Animate an indie graphic novel
Lois van Baarle details how she brought Julian Hanshaw's graphic novel The Art of Pho to life online.
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After Effects tutorial: 3D particle effects for title sequences
Chris Moran shows how to apply magical 3D effects to titles
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After Effects tutorial: Top 5 After Effects tutorials of 2011
From motion type to character animation, we take you through our reader's favourite After Effects tutorials from 2011
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After Effects tutorial: Animate a picture book
The key to producing simple but effective animation is to grasp the basic principles, as Lesley Barnes and Bruce Cameron explain
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After Effects tutorial: Stabilise your footage using After Effects CS5.5
Use the new Warp Stabilizer to steady your footage
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After Effects tutorial: Design and animate a stylish 50s cartoon character
Illustrator and animator Ben Mounsey describes here how to create a character in Illustrator that's specifically designed for animation in After Effects, and then give it a classic cel-animation walk
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After Effects tutorial: Animate a 16-bit game character
Following up his tutorial in last month’s issue on creating a character in the style of a 16-bit arcade game such as Street Fighter II, here James May takes you through the steps involved in animating this character to create a ‘load screen’.
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After Effects tutorial: Master the basics: After Effects, Illustrator & 3D
Learn how to create an animated 3D logo using After Effects and Illustrator
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After Effects tutorial: Create stylish motion type
Sam Hampton-Smith animates lyrics for a music video
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After Effects tutorial: Master the Basics: Rotobrushing in After Effects CS5
Remove a coloured background easily in Adobe After Effects CS5 by mastering the Roto Brush tool.
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After Effects tutorial: Watercolour Video Effects
Music video styles drawn from the early days of MTV are all the rage, but it’s pretty time-consuming, so we show you how to bring a stylised, painterly look to your footage.