Today’s blog post is an excerpt from our After Effects Academy Live Class on CC Particle World and it shows you how to create motion paths around an object. Note: Remember to watch the video tutorial, Jeff explains the process step-by-step. Let’s start! This is the rotation thing. And I just have a background so

In today’s post, Jeff Sengstack, our Adobe certified expert and instructor, will show you how to smooth out camera movements in After Effects. More particularly, he’ll show you how to fix the sudden motion. Note: Remember to watch the video tutorial on how to smooth camera movements that Jeff recorded for you. So let’s start!

Have you ever wondered how to get the gold-plated look on your text in After Effects? Today’s post will bring answers to your question, so let’s start! Note: Remember to watch the video tutorial Jeff, our Adobe certified expert and instructor, prepared for you. 1. Let’s create an environment. So I need to make a

Are you searching for “free after effects templates”? In this post we will provide a list of the top 3 free After Effects template creator websites. We must mention that this top includes only businesses that create their own AE templates. If you search on Google, you will find many results and websites that offer

Usually, extending the number of placeholders in an After Effects project can be time consuming and tedious. We’ve a got a little trick to make it faster and easier. Keep reading and see how Remus managed to do it in just 3 steps. Note: Don’t forget to watch the video tutorial, it’s only 5 minutes

Today we’ll take a look at duplicating compositions in After Effects correctly. Note: Remember to watch the video tutorial as Remus guides you step-by-step through this process. So let’s take a look at this example, I’ll be using the Bluefx Mini Explainer animation template. You can download this template for free if you want to

Today’s post is about capturing invisible keyframes of a motion path or shape layer. Note: Remember to watch the video tutorial Jeff, our Adobe certified expert and instructor, prepared for you. You can use the Mask Path or these points as keyframes which is really a remarkable little thing that you can do. So we’re

Today’s post is about creating a realistic frosty window in After Effects, an excerpt from an After Effects Academy live class. Note: Remember to watch the video tutorial we have prepared for you, it will help you understand better the whole process. Right now, if I put the Frost over it, it won’t look all

Today’s post is about how to convert Adobe Illustrator files to shapes in After Effects. Note: remember to watch the video tutorial Jeff, our Adobe certified instructor has prepared for you. Another way to make a shape is to use an Illustrator file. Here’s an Illustrator file – the fish file. Drag it down here

Today’s post will help you understand codecs and video containers in Adobe Media Encoder. Note: remember to watch the video tutorial Jeff, our Adobe certified instructor has prepared for you. So let’s start! Let’s look at the workflow here. You’ve got three things left to right. The workflow seems to be like we’re going to

Here’s how you can animate your logo with After Effects in under 5 minutes (even if you’re a complete beginner). Download The Free Template <<CLICK HERE >> Hi I’m Jeff Sengstack an Adobe Certified Expert and the lead Instructor here at bluefx.net. In this quick video you will learn how to animate your logo in After

Today’s post is about masking out objects seamlessly in Adobe After Effects. Note: Remember to watch the video tutorial Jeff, our Adobe certified instructor, has prepared for you.   Join The After Effects Academy And Get Acces To This Full Lesson + Weekly Live Classes And After Effects Templates Now let’s start our blog post!