Adobe After Effects – Simple Creativity #9: Making Text Tap-Dance
One evening, my wife and I went to see an opera performance. But when the curtain opened, something totally unexpected happened. My wife didn’t look surprised, but I was shocked. Several letter ghosts appeared and started tap-dancing. Continue reading
Adobe After Effects – Simple Creativity #8: Stopwatch
Several years ago, my wife and I went to New Orleans to visit my uncle. That day, she and I were just sightseeing. Then we saw a big crowd right ahead of us. When I went there, I couldn’t believe my eyes. A big guy was stepping on a skinny guy. It was a totally outrageous animal abuse and a complete violation of human rights. My wife had a cellular phone, so I told her to call 911. But, she got a stopwatch out of her purse instead and started timing. When I asked her what she was doing, she said that she wanted to know if the skinny guy could stay alive for the next 20 seconds. Continue reading
Adobe After Effects – Simple Creativity #7: Clock
One summer, I moved into a new office. Then my wife gave me a clock as a present. Well, I didn’t really like it because it looked so cheap. Anyway, my wife called and said that she was coming to help me organize my office. Hmm… Trashing some paper and putting some family photos took me two hours in no time. Continue reading
Adobe After Effects – Simple Creativity #6: A Path Traveling Across World Atlas
In this video, we utilize the technique we introduced in the very first tutorial – use of path and animate the trace with Stroke effect.
Adobe After Effects keywords and concepts: Expression Position, Generate, Stroke, Audio, Backwards, Text, Expressions, Frame Number Continue reading
Adobe After Effects – Simple Creativity #5: Air Travel
This video tutorial has two folds in showing basic Adobe After Effects techniques. First, we show how to remove the background solid color on a clip. The concept is known as ‘keying.’ We then show how to animate a number text that is linked to the number of frames. Continue reading