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30Jan/120

Aero Compass Motion Graphics tutorial

Compass motion Graphics Tutorial

Learn how to create a slick looking animated aero compass using basic after effects techniques in this Motion Graphics Tutorial. The project file is included for download so that you can take it apart and see how it’s done in as much detail as you’d like.

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29Jan/120

Free Film Flash After Effects Preset

Free Film Flash After Effects Preset

From the great Aharon Rabinowitz this free After Effects preset creates those flash frame transitions automatically between to clips using markers. The script does the rest. There’s even a video tutorial that teaches you how to use it.

Free After Effects Preset

16Jan/120

3D Text Effect Motion Graphics Tutorial

3D text in after effects motion graphics tutorials

This quick Motion Graphics Tutorial deals with creating text in 3D space using Effects. The After Effects project is available for download as well.

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2Jan/120

Advanced Rotoscoping Motion Graphics Tutorial

Advanced Rotoscoping Tutorial

This tutorial uses Mocha and After Effects to do some rather sophisticated rotoscoping (No keying possible) to separate a person from the background using Mocha to speed up the rotoscoping process.

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27Dec/110

Turn a 2D Image into a 3D scene

refine edge and 2D to 3D Motion Graphics tutorial

This quick and excellent motion graphics tutorial by Richard Harrington teaches you, in under 10 minutes, how to create a 3D scene in After Effects starting with only a 2d photo. It covers everything from using the select and refine edge tool in Photoshop to remove the foreground object, even dealing with difficult issues like hair, and ending up with a comp complete with 3D camera and 3d layers in After Effects. As it moves fast it requires a good knowledge of both Photoshop and After Effects

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12Dec/110

3D Text with Lighting and Shadows

3d text in after effects with shadows

This quick After Effects tutorial shows how to create 3D text in After Effects which reacts to lights including casting shadows without using any external plugins.

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5Dec/110

Automated Bullet Ricochet Debris Tutorials

Bullet hit tutorial

This tutorial shows a technique of using expressions to dynamically emit particles. The project files are also abailable for download.

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