Latest about After Effects
Stunning short film uses After Effects to the max
'November Növelet: Useless' is a brilliant use of some of the best-loved designer tools including After Effects and Blender.
A big hand for Elijah Wood
The director who gave Frodo Baggins a weird, animated prosthetic limb made of inanimate objects tells us how it was done
Clean up thumbnails for animation
Dylan White reveals how to smooth and prepare rough storyboard drawings for use in a comic-style animation
Quirky animation throws some shapes
Geometric craziness brings electronic music to life in this quirky creation by animator Robert Wallace.
Video tutorial: Pull focus for cinematic depth of field
Christopher Kenworthy demonstrates how to pull focus from the foreground to the background of footage using one adjustment layer
Extrude a logo in 3D space
Alex Donne Johnson explains how to use the 3D ray-tracing feature in After Effects CS6
Video tutorial: Perfect your shots with digital makeup
With a few simple steps, Christopher Kenworthy shows you how to smooth skin and remove blemishes in After Effects while keeping footage sharp
Element 3D review: After Effects plug-in
▲ Element 3D provides good quality shaders plus high-res texture maps. With the right lighting and depth-of-field, beautiful motion graphics sequences are a doddle
