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Learn After Effects

Free After Effects Resources, Shortcuts, Tutorials, & Guides

Adobe After Effects is a highly popular tool for video compositing, motion graphics design, and animation application used in the post-production process of film and television production. It can be used to create stand-alone videos, animations, special effects, animated titles, & more.

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After Effects: Audio Spectrum

This tutorial will take you through the step by step process of using a particular effect called Audio Spectrum. This one effect alone can produce super cool visual accompaniment to all your audio tracks.

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After Effects: Liquid Animation

In this tutorial, we’ll be focusing on creating a graphic, “cartoon” style liquid animation with just a few effects.

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After Effects: Track Matte and Transparency

Track mattes are a fun and powerful tool in After Effects that allows you to use a clip, still image, or text to dictate the transparency of the layer beneath.

Learn After Effects through our suite of expert-led, hands-on courses. Classes are small, and students receive individual attention and feedback on projects with real-world applications. Check out our After Effects courses in NYC now!

More After Effects Resources

  • The Effects of After Effects

    After Effects is known for its effects and in this guide we'll walk through the different types of effects in After Effects. 

  • After Effects: 2.5D Features

    This tutorial focuses on one particularly interesting ability of After Effects: 2.5D. What’s 2.5D? Well, it’s when a 2D program manipulates shapes in order to give the illusion of 3D space. Read to find out more!

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  • After Effects: Keyframe Assistant

    After Effects is excellent with slick, clean, graphic style animation, but few know of its prowess when it comes to frame-by-frame classic animation. In this tutorial, we’ll introduce you to the ways frame by frame animation works in After Effects, using different methods to sell the look.

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  • After Effects: Masked Animation

    In this tutorial, we’ll be using a simple pair of Masks to pour out water and animated some text.

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  • After Effects: Particle Emitters

    Particle Emitters are one of After Effects’ most versatile tools. By learning how each one works and how to adjust the settings, you can make anything from bubbles to smoke to caustics to even fireworks.

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  • After Effects: Puppet Pin Tool

    Puppet Pin is one of After Effects’ most powerful tools. With just a few clicks and keyframes, you can transform a static image into a lively animation! Learn how in this tutorial.

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  • After Effects: Stroke Animations

    A stroke is pretty simple: It’s just the outline around your letters and can be modified to have a different appearance or even motion! Learn how to customize stroke in this tutorial.

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