Adobe After Effects – Very Basics for Beginners #1: Importing Files
The first video tutorial of the 5-part series for After Effects beginners deals with how to import files to After Effects. Just like GoLive, After Effects has strong ties with Photoshop. So if you have it, it is recommended you edit still images with Photoshop. And After Effects is able to recognize Photoshop’s layers. Continue reading
Adobe After Effects – Simple Creativity #13: Multi-Screens 3D
Starting at the point where we ended in the last tutorial, we first change the number of screens to 100. But the main emphasis of this tutorial is to introduce camera layers and show how to switch from one camera to another while dynamically moving each. Continue reading
Adobe After Effects – Simple Creativity #12: Multi-Screens 2D
When Steve Jobs introduced Apple TV at MacWorld in San Francisco this January, I was impressed it. And my wife was much more excited than I was. After we came back home from the show, I turned on my Mac and watched Apple TV trailer. I knew somebody was watching me behind my back. It was my wife. Then she gave me a look. You know that look. Oh, no… She wanted something badly, and she was not going to leave me alone until she got it. I had to do something before she started to yell at me in front of children. So launched Adobe After Effects. Continue reading
Adobe After Effects – Simple Creativity #11: Slot Machine
There is nothing fancy, but we show how to create a slot machine movie. In this video tutorial, we rotate 3 reels differently. So we enable ‘3D Layer’ to convert a horizontally long 2D image into a 3D round reel. Continue reading
Adobe After Effects – Simple Creativity #10: Text Animation by Space Aliens
When I went to a California desert by myself one spring, I saw a flying object. As my wife has several friends from out of space, I wasn’t so surprised to see it at first. Interestingly, it seemed that the flying object tried to communicate with me by making some sounds. Then it cast a beam of blue light, which created a word right in front of me. Hmm… Who were these guys? And what planet do I live on? My life is getting so complicated these days. Continue reading