This is a very easy effect to make but it involves using particles which often scare people off because particles can be very tricky to handle. Once mastered particles can give some amazing effects and hopefully this tutorial will give you some where to get started! There are NO third party plugins needed, just good old After Effects stuff.

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I’ve been looking at how to make cool camera effects in After Effects but I had a bit of trouble using the camera object to do anything meaning full (or simple) with out making a mess or just failing me. With perseverance in my pocket and a lot of “FFS BLOODY WORK!” I managed to find a simple and effective way to pan and zoom the camera in After Effects. You use a Null object as a mediator. Null objects speak both English and Camera so can translate what you do for the camera to understand.

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The final part of the growing vines tutorial! Here for your enjoyment. Hopefully you will be able to create some sexy stylish looking vine growth for your videos now. Don’t be scared to have a go then post it as a response to my video, I’d love to see what you guys come up with!

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This is the second part of the tutorial where we get into the nitty gritty of After Effects! You can really see the benefit of using the groups in PhotoShop and doing all the preparation when you import into After Effects. Then using the Write-on tool I will show you how to quickly and simply animate the vines.

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This is the first part of the tutorial for the Growing vine animation I’ve made! OK It’s a little in depth with Photoshop and not much After Effects but it’s it makes it a lot easier on you in After Effects if you can get the starting file in place. There are also a few cool little tricks I’ve learnt while doing this. When you create a folder in Photoshop and import the .PSD (PhotoShop Document) into After Effects it makes the folders compositions! How about that for connivence?

Working on Part 2 now, should be out later this week if not tomorrow!

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Probably shouldn’t have uploaded this as I’m going to be making the tutorial tomorrow but I couldn’t help it it’s so pretty!

In this tutorial I show you how to make a cool Matrix style colour tint effect which will make all your movies moody, dynamic and cool guaranteed! (Well kinda) It’s a really simple and very effective technique of adding a professional look to our videos to get awesome results with minimal effort. It doesn’t take any fancy 3rd party magic effect presets it’s just using what After Effects comes with (like all my tutorials).

I hope you enjoy this tutorial and use it to add some coolness to your videos! :3

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I’ve been working a Sin City style video effects which makes one colour stand out and the rest of teh video black and white. This tutorial shows the technique I found most effective. There’s some simple masking involved and the use of some cool video effects. It’s not hard to follow and it’s very effective, give it a go with one of your videos and see what you can make!

BTW I do all my own stunts as well as effects /flex

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Ok It’s been a while since my last video tutorial so here’s one to prepare you for my up comming Blood splatter text tutorial! It will be gory

After Effects doesn’t have an official way to import Photoshop brushes but this method works for me and I’ll be using it in upcoming tutorials ^_^

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Hey, this is just a quick tutorial on how to extend the time line of a composition in Adobe After Effects. Had a few people asking this so I figure there are probably more out there searching for it. So here you go!

I just realised there’s no smiley faces in this video D:

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