There are many things After Effects should take from Cinema 4D. One of them is the ability to hide an object from the viewport, but have it show up in the render. There are many ways you can do this in Cinema 4D...
Animating to audio is an important part of working inside of After Effects. But it can become messy very quickly. As soon as you move things around you have to manually resynchronize everything. Here’s a solution that...
Displaying a dynamic amount of money in After Effect can quickly become a bit of a headache. Handling the various mathematic and typographic technicalities of currencies in one bulletproof expression is tricky, but not...
Expressions are a really powerful feature in After Effects. It can help you improve the quality and fluidity of your animation but it can also help you organize your project. Expressions if used well, gives you the...
In this second article about easing the gif creation process we'll see how we can automate the process of firing up the render and sending the video file to Photoshop with some ExtendScript. First, what is ExtendScript?...
To follow-up on our article 15 great animated gifs on Dribbble , it makes sense that we look at how we can make such gifs as swiftly as possible. We will go over this in two separate articles. We'll first see in this...
Adobe provides us some command line interface to start renders without having to start After Effects ( here's the documentation ). This can be really useful when using multiple computers on remote desktops or just to...