Tutorial: Digieffects/Motionworks Challenge winner
Joe Mason was one of the top 3 winners in the latest contest. He shows you how to create a chaotic look using adjustment layers, expressions, and Digieffects plugins.
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Tutorial: Joe Mason Digieffects/Motionworks Challege Winner from digieffects on Vimeo.
Create a CCTV security video look in After Effects
Laurence Grayson over at Shortformvideo has a quick tutorial on how to downgrade ordinary footage and make it look like it came from a cheap security camera. He utilizes several AE presets and no outside plugins. You’ll also see a ridiculously simple way to give video that steppy, stuttery look. Watch it here.
3D wings with 3D Stroke
You don’t see many tutorials for Trapcode 3D Stroke anymore but you’re in for a real treat today. In his first ever (!) After Effects tutorial Chris Lorance (aka “Iaenic“) posted a 20-minute tutorial called 
Advanced 3D Wings in After Effects where he shows you how to create 3D wings which not only flap but can evolve out of the actor’s back. I hope we see a lot more from this guy in the future!
Boris 3D Objects webinar replay available
Did you miss it?
A couple of weeks ago Boris presented a free, live webinar on Continuum Complete‘s 3D Objects filters. The webinar is now available to watch anytime you like from the Boris FX website. You’ll also be able to download the media and AE CS5 project used in the video. Watch it here.
Make A Light Wall in After Effects
You know that in After Effects you can make great things. Quba Michalski has in his web Quba HQ a great tutorial for make a cool looking light wall. Quba also give you the chance to download his presets and the tutorial. The difficulty is Beginner to Advanced and is 70 min aprox long. So check it out here and enjoy with your After Effects!
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Create metallic text in After Effects
Hands up those of you who keep forgetting that After Effects has layer styles. Yeah, me too. Well, J. Schul has a quick tutorial over at LayersMagazine.com, which shows you how to make a polished metal text effect directly in After Effects… using layer styles.
Sonicfire Pro 5 with After Effects CS5 Workflow
Do you make cool Motion graphics projects? Then you know that the audio is very important. At Pro Video Coalition you can find the Jeff Foster 3 in 1 tutorial, where explains: Sonicfire Pro 5 – Soundtrack Workflow with After Effects CS5, Sonicfire Pro 5 – Roundtrip Soundtrack Editing with After Effects CS5 and Sonicfire Pro 5 – Matching the Soundtrack to Motion Graphics Elements with After Effects CS5. Also you can find some tips to enhance your final product.
Below you can find the 3 tutorials, but if you want more information or a detailed explanation of the 3 tutorials you can find out here.
A way to make Stereoscopic-3D videos with After Effects
Some days I wrote a post that also talk about this fantastic technique. If you want to remember, you can find out here.
Goran Kraljevic Koehler has posted in AEtusts+ this easy way to make 3D videos with After Effects and 3D Glasses effect. In his tutorial explains a Step by Step way to make a nice Stereoscopic-3D video from an animation in a 3D software. The method that use Goran also can be due entirely with After Effects, but this method works fine. You can find the tutorial here.
So, put your Blue/Red sunglasses and enjoy!
This is that Goran will teach you
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Connect Your Scale Relative To The Camera’s Position
What do you think If I say that when you move your After Effects camera closer to your solid or move the camera away of it, the solid change the scale relatively? Well, let’s cut the suspense, Ran Ben explains in AEtuts+ how to do that. So If you are interested, you can check it out here.
The preview of the tutorial
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Mini-tutorial: Two new CS5 features
John Dickinson posted an excerpt from his last Adobe E-seminar revealing how After Effects’ Align Panel has been upgraded to include the ability to align something in reference to the comp itself. He also shows some surprising ways to take advantage of the new feature. He then explains another new feature: the ability to Orient Each Character Independently when using Per-character 3D. Click to watch.
