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To celebrate Valentine’s Day, here’s a free After Effects Project file for you to download and customise. No plug-ins required – it uses the standard toolkit in After Effects CS5. No restrictions on its use in personal or commercial projects, but you may not redistribute or sell this file.
And as always, if you use it – tell people where you got it 
Here’s how to use the standard toolkit in After Effects to create a fairly realistic flight instrument. Easy to customise and keyframe for your own needs. You can also download the After Effects CS5 project file for it from here.
NOTE: It has already been pointed out to me that the ball compass isn’t really used in airplane instrumentation – it’s more of a boat thing. Which is why I’ve added an attitude indicator / artificial horizon to the project file.
Cheers!
Laurence
Found myself wondering whether you could create a woodgrain effect in After Effects the other day. As is so often the case, one thing led to another, with this as the end result. A woodgrain / woodcut logo reveal effect.
So here’s how to create a carpentry-style logo reveal in After Effects without the need for any third-party plug-ins. You can download the CS5 project file for it from here.
