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After Effects

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"How to Create an invisible effect in After Effects" cover image
May 19, 2008

Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern with the help of his brother Yuval will show you a simple method to create the famous invisible look inspired from the movie "The Predator" in After Effects ...

"How to Create a Kamehameha (energy blast attack) from Dragon Ball in After Effects" cover image
May 7, 2008

No, the Kamehameha is not the famous Hawaiian king who united all the islands under his rule from 1795 to 1819. Nope. However, it is named after him. But in this case, Kamehameha is an energy blast at ...

"How to Create the Smallville effect in After Effects" cover image
Apr 17, 2008

This video will show you how to create the Smallville effect in After Effects. He doesn't talk, so if you see new items show up on the timeline, it's him hitting CTRL-D and duplicating the selected i ...

"How to Make a cool text effect in After Effects" cover image
Apr 17, 2008

This After Effects tutorial shows you how to make a cool text effect thats pretty neat. Its a basic effect and should be easy to follow. Crank the volume on this one. ...

"How to Create multiple TV layers in After Effects" cover image
Apr 15, 2008

You know those big walls of televisions you see at the electronics store? Have you ever wanted to create an effect like that? Maybe for a commercial or cool project? Well this tutorial will show yo ...

"How to Create a ghost effect in After Effects" cover image
Apr 13, 2008

In this Adobe After Effects tutorial Tony Reale shows you how to create a ghost effect for your films. ...

"How to Create a laser blast in After Effects" cover image
Apr 12, 2008

This After Effects tutorial shows you how easy it is to create a laser blast - perfect for shooting out of your laser gun. ...

"How to Create Star Wars scrolling text in After Effects" cover image
Apr 12, 2008

This three part tutorial shows you how to use Photoshop to create Star Wars text and then make it scroll up like in the movie intro using After Effects. ...

"How to Clone people in After Effects" cover image
Apr 12, 2008

This tutorial shows you how to create clone effects using masks in After Effects. ...

"How to Render in After Effects CS3" cover image
Mar 28, 2008

If you are new to After Effects and just finished your first project, you may need some help figuring out how to render it. This video gives you a basic guide to rendering. ...