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Why After Effects CC 2015 Improved Previewing Will Make Your Work Easier
If you are lucky enough to be one of the members of our After Effects Academy, you must have already heard and even debated this issue with our Adobe certified instructor. If not, then just let me remind you that Adobe released several updates to After Effects that has arrived in its 13.6.1 version. There

BlueFx will pay you cold, hard cash for your After Effects templates!
Are you an After Effects Pro? Do you spend hours creating After Effects templates? Is it your life? Do you wish you could get rich doing it? Or at least, a bit richer than you are now? Great! We have awesome news for you! Bluefx is looking for After Effects template creators. We are Bluefx,

3 Simple Ways to Get the Best of After Effects CC 2015 Updated Workspace
As mentioned in our previous post about improved previewing in After Effects CC 2015 version 13.6.1, this wasn’t the only change Adobe made. Adobe has also updated the workspace in After Effects CC 2015 v13.6.1 Let’s see how this looks like. This is the workspace bar up here. Normally you would call this a panel:

9 Free Amazing Tips to Make You Excited about Adobe Character Animator
Today’s post is the third one in a series of posts about the updates that come with Adobe After Effects 13.6.1 version. While the improved previewing and the updated workspace are meant to make your work easier, today’s feature is a totally new one. So let’s talk about Character Animator. We will check: where the

How to create an awesome explainer video
An explainer video is a marketing video that explains your product or service in 60 – 90 seconds, helping you create powerful messages and engage your audience better than other channels do. Explainer videos can be be placed on landing pages, homepage or a prominent product page of your website. They are very popular after

How to use multiple viewers in After Effects [VIDEO]
Today’s post is about how to use multiple viewers in After Effects in order to see how the animation looks like in real time. We will be using the Whiteboard template which you can purchase in the Bluefx store. As you can see in the video, we have this scene with the text and the

Why Face Tracker is the coolest new feature in Adobe After Effects
Today’s post is about one of the two new features of the latest Adobe After Effects version. We have already checked the updates regarding the improved previewing and workspace in Adobe After Effects 13.6.1, as well as the first new feature which is Character Animator. Let’s see more about the Face Tracker, the second new

3 New Effects in After Effects CC 2015 You Should Know About
Today’s post covers the 3 new effects that come with the Adobe After Effects 13.6.1 version. We have already covered the improved previewing and workspace, the Face Tracker and the Character Animator. Now you’ll find more about these 3 amazing effects: 1. CC HexTile 2. CC Vignette 3. Lumetri Cycore is a company based in

How to add auto opacity to layers and footage in After Effects [quick video tutorial]
Have you ever worked with tens or hundreds of layers in a project and had difficulties when adding opacity to ALL of them? Have you ever needed a fade expression and didn’t know exactly where to find it, how to look for it, how to write or edit it? Today’s post, by Remus Hossu, provides

Save an After Effects CC 2015 project as an AE CS6 project
Do you need to save your AE project so that those having older versions could see it too? You’re in the right place. Jeff Sengstack, our Adobe certified instructor, will show you how to save an After Effects project made in a newer version to older versions of AE. NOTE: Visual memory works great for

After Effects shortcuts for changing layer properties
Have you ever wondered what are the shortcuts you could use to display layered transform properties? You’ll find in today’s post the solution and much more. Jeff Sengstack, our Adobe certified instructor, will talk about: the 5 transform properties and their shortcuts the shortcuts you should use when working with multiple properties the shortcuts you

How to create simple motion tracking in After Effects
Today’s post is the first one in a series of blog posts about tracking motion in After Effects. In our future blog posts, we’ll also talk about : 3D Tracking With Shadow Catcher Advanced Perspective Corner Pin Tracking Position a Text in a 3D Tracked Scene So let’s start and see how you can create