75+ Amazing Adobe After Effects Tutorials

Adobe After Effects is a powerful tool to give visual effects in motion graphics. It also provides a huge range of predefined combinations to give stunning animating effects to movies. Designing Mall has a tradition to give quality roundups.


Keeping in view the importance of Adobe After Effect, here is a collection of the most exiting tutorials of Adobe After Effects. These tutorials consist of different versions of Adobe After Effect which are frequently used in post production. Some tutorials club a wide range of interrelated softwares like Adobe Premiere, Photoshop and Flash etc

Foot Ball Animation

This is a very simple tutorial in which ball is animated

Futuristic Floating Hologram Effect

In this tutorial we will learn to make a futuristic floating hologram over a
cellphone. The techniques included here will help you understand how to track
one object to another.

Speed Particles

This tutorial explores particle tool and all its where abouts.

Blowing Flowers

This tutorial will teach you how to create flower trails using Trapcode Particular in this special holiday episode. you’ll also work with the light emitter and use 3D layer to obscure particles.

3D Light Casting

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an energy-ball that re-lights the road surface. Throughout this tutorial, you will use reverse-tracking and build a volumetric point light.

Introduction to After Effects

Particle Explosion

An after effect tutorial where you will build a complex particle system using CC Particle World. Also you will synchronize the particle blast to shatter a title

Pseudo Effects for After Effects

In this podcast, author shows the advantages to using Pseudo Effects, will walk through creating one from scratch in an .XML file, and assist you in making your own presets more organized and professional looking.

Scene Re-Lighting

In this tutorial, you will use normal-map to relight 3d scenes in After Effects. throughout this tutorial you will apply more advanced lighting, reflection & Refraction.

Quick Tip – Importing Image Sequences

Importing is a way of life for After Effects users, but sometimes we end up taking the long road without even realizing it. In this Quick Tip, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how to handle image sequences, so they are easier to work with in your AE projects.

Fracture Design

This this tutorial you will use expressions, scripts and create a distressed title.

Quick Tip "After Effects" Auto-Creating Compositions

When working in Adobe’s After Effects, you can get footage from just about anywhere, and in most cases, you don’t have the time to figure out what the client gave you, as in most cases, they don’t even know. This quick tip will
show you how to match your composition to a clip in your project to get you animating in no time flat.

Animate Your Logo Into Characters

In this tutorial, you will learn some of the cool new features introduced in Trapcode Particular v2.0. Inspiration for this tutorial is from the logo reveal of the Digital Domain Animation Company

5 Basic Ways To Populate Mass Groups Within After Effects – AE Basix

In this tutorial we look at 5 individual ways of duplicating crowds. These methods are: Simple Masking (garbage matting), Rotoscoping, Difference Matting, Chroma Keying and Camera Technique

Advanced Camera Tips

Graffiti Writing

Learn how to simulate graffiti writing on a wall in 3D and add some paint splatter elements using After Effects.

Endlessly Zoom Into Your Own Droste Effect

In this Basix tutorial, we’ll learn how to create the Droste Effect in Adobe After Effects. We’ll be be parenting our footage to precomps and scaling to give the illusion of an infinite zoom.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a growing 3D vines and animate it using After Effects.

Growing 3D Vines

Rotobrush Tool in After Effects CS5

The Rotobrush tool in After Effects CS5 automates the tedious task of selecting an object over the duration of a video clip. In this tutorial, Tom Green shows how easy it is to select the subject from one clip and drag it onto a new background clip.

Evolution

In this tutorial you will create a custom unique designs using of the design that comes from Evolution Preset.

Intro To Combustion For The After Effects User

This tutorial is basically for those who love After Effects and want to learn a different compositing software.

Create a MoGraph Urban Jungle

In this After Effects tutorial, you will create a stunning Urban Jungle effect where vector graphics are perfectly tracked to some city footage.

Color Control in After Effects CS5

Franklin McMahon discusses 3 features in After Effects CS5 to help improve the color in your video clip: 1) Levels, 2) Vibrance, and 3) the Color Finesse 3 plugin.

Colorful Universe

In this tutorial, you will create a dynamic space world with light streams using After Effects. you will also use an expression to create a 3D orbit.

Sketching with After Effects

Author shows how to use After Effects to create the effect of sketching images onto the screen. Created from your video or other images, the sketch can then animate as rolling footage. This is a fun and versatile effect that
requires no 3rd party plug-ins.

Popping Animation Effect in Adobe After Effects

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a Popping Animation Effect combining vector art and shapes inside After Effects.

Understanding Interpolation Animation in After Effects CS5

One of the most powerful animation features of CS5, learn how to control your animations in different ways using spatial interpolation and temporal interpolation techniques.

3D City

Learn how to create a stylistic 3D city with 2D images in Adobe After Effects. Throughout this tutorial, you will learn how to built advanced structures and simulate lighting.

Animating Text Along A Path In After Effects

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create a sequence that involves text animating along a custom path using the first margin text property. A custom path is a vector path that is drawn freehand using the pen tool in After
Effects.

The Tunnel

A quick technique of creating a cool futuristic tunnel in After Effects.

Create an After Effects Tornado

Author demonstrates how to create a tornado in After Effects and control all aspects of its appearance and movement. It’s all done with Particle World so there are no 3rd party plug-ins required.

Futuristic HUD

A tutorial where you will learn how to create 3D interface display as seen in Iron Man’s helmet a build a self-animating components and artificial lighting.

Alignment Tools in After Effects CS5

Aligning visual elements inside a project is very important. Franklin McMahon goes over some of the alignment options in After Effects, including the new Align Layers to Composition feature in CS5.

Adobe After Effects Quick Tip – Cleaning up messy projects

Nothing is worse than trying to work in an After Effects project that’s an absolute mess. In this Quick Tip, you will see how simple it is to clean up a project to make it easier to work in, or archive.

3D Motion and Position of Text Characters with After Effects

Typography is one of the qualities upon which we base most of our design work, and the type animation engine in After Effects offers a gamut of ways to express typographic flair.

Particle World Transitions: Part 2

Author develops the techniques demonstrated in Part 1 of this tutorial. He applies the Particle World Text to Sand effect to 3D text created using the Shatter Effect, and composites that onto a background. He then reverses the
effect, changing sand into an onscreen character who finally, blows away as dust in the wind.

Out of the Rabbit Hole – Text Transitions

Learn tips about working in 3D, using cameras, expressions, and the graph editor – all while making a unique Carroll-esque motion graphic title sequence.

3D Text in After Effects

There are a number of approaches for creating 3D and faux 3D text (and shapes) in After Effects with native and 3rd party tools. It’s rather easier to list them than to demonstrate them, especially since there are a number
insightful options for solving deficiencies in the popular, inexpensive approaches (duplicate layers and the Shatter effect).

3D Text Animation in After Effects

This 3D Text Animation project gives viewers a chance to learn about the new per-character-3d animation option in After Effects CS5.

Shatter-Mation in After Effects

Author introduces "Shatter-Mationâ€, the use of AE’s Shatter Effect to animate text, logos and other shapes. Rob demonstrates how the Shatter Effect’s Force and Physics parameters can be adjusted to precisely control objects in 3D space for a wide variety of effects and transitions.

Text Particles

Author uses the text tool in After Effects, along with several text animators to create rings of particles, making for a magical transition for any footage you choose.

Wrapping Text Around a Circle in After Effects

There’s another intro tutorial on the "newer"way to do path text, that shows how to use per-character 3D text animation to animate text along a path in the shape of a 3D tornado.

Flaming Chrome Text in After Effects

In this tutorial J Schuh creates some flaming chrome text in After Effects using the glow and liquefy effects.

Accessing "Right To Left" Languages Within After Effects

In this Quick Tip we will learn to enable languages and manipulate "RTL" text right within After Effects.

Mystery Text in Adobe After Effects

Learn how to create this mystery text effect by animating layer styles on a text layer in After Effects.

From Text to a Cool Extruded-3D with After Effects

As cool as 3D is in After Effects, there’s no doubt that an extrude tool is something we all wish for. While there are a few plug-ins that handle such a task (Zaxwerks Invigorator PRO being one of my favorites), there’s a cool way
to achieve a true 3D look (more or less) using the 3D effects in Illustrator.

3D Sci-Fi Metallic Typography

Create a cool 3D sci-fi textured type look in Adobe After Effects, using the Fractal Noise, Texturize and Roughen Edges effects along with Expressions, Luma Mattes, Motion Blur and pseudo 3D Camera techniques.

Energetic Titles

Use Sure Target preset to achieve advanced 3d moves. Learn advanced tips and create "3d-looking"titles

Green Smoke

Create a cloudy smoke title with real footage. Combine video elements with a particle system

Motion graphics dream team-After Effects Flash CS4

Author helps us discover techniques and shortcuts that can be used to create genre-busting work with After Effects CS4 and Flash CS4 Professional.

Bending Flash Video in After Effects

Match your video to the geometry of an object by using a warp effect in After Effects.

Exporting from After Effects to Flash

Export from After Effects in a format that can be used in Flash, with many kinds of layers and keyframes intact and editable.

Exporting XFL Format from After Effects to Flash

Tom Green shows how to easily take an effect created in After Effects and bring it over Flash using the XML format.

Flash Essentials for After Effects Users

Flash baffles After Effects users as often as it makes them feel comfortable.

Integrating Flash CS4 with After Effects CS4

One of the strengths of Flash is its ability to create vector animations. The Timeline in Flash makes it possible to add motion to vector objects, resulting in animation with crisp, clean lines and motion that would be difficult and time-consuming to create in After Effects.

Flash to Video

This tutorial starts with a code-driven animation, takes it from Flash, and turns it into a video file that can used with an application like After Effects.

Add Some Flash to After Effects

Flash has easy animation tools, vector morphing, almost-instant rendering, and a sophisticated scripting language called ActionScript. For many, ActionScript is the key benefit of Flash. True, After Effects has Expressions
(written in another scripting language), but they aren’t as powerful or versatile as ActionScript programs.

Guru Lesson 2

In this guru lesson you learn how to apply effects to layers. We create an amazing lightning effect but the concepts you learn appy to any other effects, too. You also learn the basic concept of keyframes that allows to animate any
property in After Effects over time.

How To Blow The Face Off A Zombie Pirate

This tutorial will show you how to create a zombie headshot. We’ll start by first rotoscoping out the head using his makeup line as a guide

Procedural Crumble

Create a procedural crumbling effect using Shatter Effect. Composite dust elements and add realistic motion blur

2D/3D with Photoshop CS3 Extended and After Effects

Create a procedural crumbling effect using Shatter Effect. Composite dust elements and add realistic motion blur

How To Create A Timewarped Logo Reveal

In this tutorial we will only use built in AE plug-ins to achieve the final effect. We will learn how to divide a layer into numerous parts and then how to control the geometric aspects of those parts using the advanced features of Card Dance along with the Ease and Wizz script.

Bring Your Letters to Life

In this After Effects quick tip we do some typo animation using the puppet tool. We use KeyTweak to make animating the puppet pins much easier.

Trim Compose Script

Trim Compose helps you manage large VFX project. Discuss workflows for creating a video with many VFX

How To Obtain Organic Object Morphing Transitions

In this tutorial author will show you how to achieve an organic morphing blob to transition from one element to another. Then we’ll look at dropping in textures for a more attractive end result.

The CopyMask2Layer Tool

When you copy a mask in After Effects from one layer to another one, it very often does not stay where it has been before. In this quick tip tutorial you learn how to avoid this nasty problem using the nifty little tool CopyMask2Layer.

Create A Generative Identity Using Plexus

In this tutorial author will walk through how to create a generative style text reveal using Plexus in After Effects.

Cyborg Arm

In this tutorial you learn how to use After Effects to turn you arm into a cyborg arm. We use MochaAE (which is included in After Effects) to track the motion and perspective distortion of the arm and then do the compositing in After Effects.

Virtual 3D Photos

Like Flash, Photoshop is also an important part of After Effects. Learn how you can use 2D images and make a video in After Effects with these After Effects Photoshop Tutorials

Adjusting Depth of Field

In this tutorial author shows how to modify the depth of field blurring inside of a clip. He uses Photoshop to create a luma matte and After Effects to apply the Lens Blur Filter.

Fun with Ink

Create ink spatter elements and composite in 3D. Use Particle World to generate fake ink

Ink Bleeding Effect in After Effects

In this tutorial author will recreate a similar look from an older Gnarls Barkley video. The principles author will cover are foundational and can be used for some incredible animations other than simply imitating a great music video.

Elegant
Slideshows

Automatically resize images in Photoshop batch. Sequence layers quickly in
After Effects

Extruding 3D Text & Shapes 4: Repousse

In this final tutorial on extruding 3D text & shapes in After Effects, author has a look at using Repousse from Photoshop as a way of creating quite detailed 3D text.

Photoshop and Illustrator for After Effects

This Adobe E-seminar covers some basic techniques, some little-known techniques and plenty of handy workflow tips for using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator with Adobe After Effects.

Set Extensions

Extend a live action set with custom matte painting. Link several motion trackers into one null object

3D Vanishing Point

Use Vanishing Point to generate 3D from still. Import in to AE and use as a 3D scene from PS