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It indeed should be simpler in AE, making an extruded shadow.. the kind you find in many NLE programs.
This uses the AE Type tool, and black solids with “Set Matte”. Each solid is offset 1 pixel in X/Y.
I’d recommend leaving this as its own comp, or placing your layers below the existing layers in […]
A friend of mine was asking about easier ways to control depth of field in After Effects.
Although it isn’t complicated, AE cameras measure depth of field with a single number, measured in pixels. So, it isn’t very easy to visualize and estimate when and whereobjects are in focus, aside from scrubbing the “Focus Distance” control […]
What does the encoded message say? Click the picture and find out! This is a little animation preset that displays random numbers and reveals your orignal source text when you change an expression slider.
decoderNumbers.ffx
Have you seen Harry’s Expressions Blog? He has 6 lessons up there now. Good stuff!
You probably noticed the lack of updates in the past week. I’ve been in New York City, first for NAB NY and then to a fabulous weekend with the folks at Maxon Computer, maker of Cinema 4D and BodyPaint.
At NAB NY I went to a training session with Marcus Geduld that explained some basic Expressions […]
Wanna make something blink on and off?
Here’s the expression you would apply to opacity:
blinkSpeed = 1;t = (Math.cos (blinkSpeed*time*Math.PI*2)+1)/2;v = linear(t, 0, 1, 0, 1);Math.round(v)*100
Here is way, via expressions, we can take a paragraph of text in the AE Type tool and split it into sentences. If you use the expression slider included in the preset you can simply “slide” through the sentences. This is good way to make down and dirty graphics for translation work or perhaps […]
If you’ve been following John Dickinson’s great Creative Background Design training series, you’ve learned that Fractal Noise can be a very powerful tool to use as a starting point in background design and creation. To set up a seemlessly looping animation, there’s a few things you’ve got to do to get it just right. […]
Hello folks!! Sorry I’ve been so remiss in posting something here. It has been CRAAAAZZY busy in the last month since I went freelance, which is a good thing.
Anyway, here’s a cool little expression I worked up that creates a Latitude or Longitude read-out based on a slider value. It’s more for effect than […]
Don’t ask what I had to do this for.
But, there are some cool ideas here for making an expression based “rollover” effect as well as a bar that follows along, all driven by a Null locator. Take a look and see what you can do with it.
DOWNLOAD THE PROJECT HERE (AE6.5)
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