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After Effects

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"How to Create a hand scanner in After Effects" cover image
Aug 13, 2008

Learn how to create a Hand Scanner in Adobe After Effects. This is an advanced level tutorial so you should at least know your way around the software before starting. ...

"How to Throw Super Mario fireballs in Adobe After Effects 7.0" cover image
Aug 13, 2008

Using Adobe After Effects 7.0, this tutorial shows you how to dish out fireballs like a true plumber by creating a Super Mario Bros. fireball effect for your footage. ...

"How to Create advanced lightning effects in After Effects CS3" cover image
Aug 13, 2008

This tutorial shows you how to create some advanced lightening effects in After Effects CS3. ...

"How to Build and light a 3D scene in After Effects" cover image
Jul 13, 2008

n this video tutorial, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Eran Stern shows you a how to build a 3D scene using Photoshop CS3 Vanishing Point and re-light it inside After Effects. Part two will show you ...

"How to Get 8 free VU meter plugins for Mac FCP, AE and Motion" cover image
Jul 13, 2008

VFX artist Roger Bolton has worked on films including The Lord of the Rings, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and Kingdom of Heaven. He has also created effects for his own use -- in this case, a wid ...

"How to Track objects moving out of frame in After Effects" cover image
Jul 13, 2008

Creative Cow Contributing Editor Eran Stern shows you a how to track objects that are moving out of frame in After Effects using expressions and AE motion tracker. ...

"How to Use the remove color matting effect in After Effects" cover image
Jul 13, 2008

In this After Effects tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz adds to the concepts he covered in his tutorial Straight Vs. Premultiplied and explains how to use the remove color matting effect ...

"How to Add depth to fractal noise in After Effects" cover image
Jul 13, 2008

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a cool tip for adding depth to your Fractal Noise animations with the perspective offset. ...

"How to Create custom shapes in After Effects" cover image
Jul 13, 2008

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to move beyond the Basic shape tools to create your own custom shapes. Part two shows you how to combine several shapes to m ...

"How to Create the Sin City luminance effect in After Effects" cover image
Jul 13, 2008

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Grant Swanson will cover important and useful techniques for working with alpha channels that are specifically derived from certain color lumin ...