After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Previews in After Effects CC 2015
After Effects CC 2015 introduced a greatly overhauled previewing scheme, including the ability to edit your projects while previews...
After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Effect Point Path
Whereas some effects process every pixel in a layer more or less evenly (think blurs or color correction), others...
Filmmaking from Scratch: The Amazing Journey of Dave Basulto
Driven by a love of storytelling and a fearless nature, filmmaker, teacher, and entrepreneur Dave Basulto’s packed career has taken...
After Effects Hidden Gems: Adjustment Lights
The built-in 3D implementation in After Effects is nowhere near as deep as a dedicated 3D program. However, it...
Measuring Rotation in After Effects
Last week, we posted a short tutorial on using expressions to measure the distance between two points. This was...
After Effects Hidden Gems: Illuminating Dark 3D Layers
You could be forgiven for thinking that to illuminate 3D layers in After Effects, you just add one or...
The making of “25 Years of Photoshop”
Adobe Photoshop is synonymous with creativity, which is why it made perfect sense to celebrate its 25th anniversary with...
After Effects Hidden Gems: Sequence Layers
After Effects is not a video editing program – but it does have a few good editing tricks up...
DIY DCP
You used to hear a whir, the sound of sprockets pulling film from a 15 pound reel at a...
After Effects Hidden Gems: Replace Source
It’s not uncommon to working on a layer in a composition – including editing its duration, adding effects, or...
