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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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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