In this easy tute, I’ll show you how to create a really simple scrolling LED signboard using the standard toolset in After Effects, so no plug-ins required.
You can download the project file for this tutorial from here.
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After Effects Tutorial – Faking a CCTV security video
In this quick and easy one-part tutorial, I’ll be showing you how to fake a CCTV video using the stock presets and tools in After Effects, complete with the timelapse-look and timecode overlay.
You can get the project file for it here.
After Effects Tutorial – Desecrated Cathedral
In this four-part tutorial series, I show you how to take a photograph of a building and turn it into something much creepier. There’s a bunch of techniques in here, including 3D fakery, depth of field fakery, adding live footage (luma-keyed), storm clouds, rain and flickering candlelight in the windows. Thanks to Mercedes Ramirez Guerrero for the original photograph, licensed under Creative Commons.
I’ll be posting the After Effects project file in a separate article. Enjoy!
After Effects Tutorial – The Sands of Time
OK – so here’s a four-part tutorial for After Effects called The Sands of Time. I’ll be showing you how to create engraved text, a sandstorm reveal and a useful way of working with particles that doesn’t require any third-party plug-ins (like Trapcode Particular or Form).
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
You can also download the project file created for this tutorial from here.
After Effects Tutorial – Freaky flaming face of fire!
Everyone knows that you don’t get taken seriously as a motion graphics tutorial guy until you’ve done at least one facial deformation technique. Andrew Kramer has his demon face warp, Maltaannon has his push-pin Trapcode Form tute and so on.
So here’s mine – a freaky face-on-fire tutorial using only the standard toolset in After Effects CS3, 4 or 5 (it may go back even further than these versions, in fact). Enjoy!
