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Tutorial 84: Rubber Stamp Texture

Cheers! I'm a big fan of print looks—those are my blockprints in the corner of my studio behind me—so I decided to figure out a way to put a stamp texture on a layer, and it turned out I could do it pretty easily and using only one layer thanks t...

Workbench One Layer Stamp Texture Preset

Hey guys! Here's a link to a new preset I've put into our shared folder. It allows you to add this rubber stamp look to any layer. There's a quick ...

Tutorial 83: Semi-Automatic Animation

Yes, that was a Lil Wayne reference.

This week's After Effects tutorial shows you how to use markers to trigger and retime animations contained in a precomp from a main comp. It is based on Dan Ebberts' 2017-08-11 19:09:43 +0000 UTC View Post

Tutorial 82: Pixel Sorting and More

This week, I happened upon an effect I hadn't noticed before. It's called CC Kernel. It's part of the Cycore Effects that have been bundled with AE for quite a while now. It's actually pretty powerful. For more information—kind of—check out the P...

Smart Bar Graph Presets

Hi! Thanks for your support!

The preset for this week's tutorial is attached.

Also attached is a Quiver script for the null/layer you parent to the bar. You add it to the layer's position property.

Tutorial 81: Smart Bar Graphs

This week, we go over a requested tutorial to lock items to the end of a bar graph. Since this uses a nifty way to determine the lengths of the bars, you can use real world data. Set up your Max Value slider to your largest data point, and set each b...

Tutorial 80: Auto-scale Trimmed Paths

As always, thanks for your support!

This week, we take a quick look at an expression that will automatically scale Stroke Width when the length of the stroke is below a certain threshold so our trimmed strokes don't just pop on or off.

Here's...

New Preset - Scale Trim

Hey guys, here's a new preset I'll explain in this week's tutorial (most likely) but here it is so you can use it now and also don't have to make it yourselves. :)

Scale Trim, scales stroke width when a line is trimmed at either end so that it does...

Tutorial 79: Procedural Mattes

Note: If you're a Patron that has access to my textures, there should be a post before this one that has your link!

This week, we're exploring a technique to make a procedural grid matte to use as an element, a track matte, or a displacement map. I...

Procedural Mattes

Hey guys! I've put the Procedural Mattes from this week's tutorial in this folder. They called Griddy 01-03. Go grab them!

https://www.dro...

Yo patrons!

As I'm writing about this week's tutorial, I just realized I should've given you guys a heads up about the 4th of July sale (although I basically thought of it on July 4th so...). Anyway, I know these messages are probably more direct to you guys. So...

Tutorial 78: Unconventional Bouncing Boxes

First, there's a hidden youtube-related joke in here, so the first person to find it gets a free copy of StackIt (which we released this week as I'm sure you probably saw, you faithful patrons).

As for the tutorial itself, this week, we're looking ...

Tutorial 77: Glitchy Dot LED Thing

This week we take a look at making some quick LED-style dots that can be used in a variety of ways—from just making an LED look, to making random dots for background elements. There's a couple of useful tips thrown about in there, like how to break...

Glitch Mattes

Hi guys, here are the mattes from the Breakout tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK87FxWBdDg). Enjoy!

Tutorial 76: Preserve Transparency

This week, we're talking about a little switch in After Effects that you might have overlooked for quite some time. But it can be useful for compositing things together when you need more complex transparency or if you need to build up transparency t...

Tutorial 75: Breakout

If you need a quick way to make blinking boxes for glitches or whatever, this technique is a super quick way to do it. All you have to do is draw some quick shape paths, throw some noise on them and cover them with mosaic and you're all set.

Tutorial 74: 3D Book

This week we go over a really quick technique Sev made to make a 3D-ish book in After Effects. This could probably also be combined with some sort of warp or distort effect to get a book that lays open. There are some collisions in the project file (...

Textures

As promised, with the new reward tiers, here's a link to a folder of some textures. This will be added to, so feel free to save the link. I'll post when I've added some new ones. Thanks!

Migration

Here's a little early access peek at a blog post for tomorrow!

Presets

As part of the new reward tiers, here's a link to the presets I'm sharing. Most of the ones in here at this moment are from the initial pack you get when you sign up to be a patron. But there are three new ones in here that start with "Motion Lines" ...

I've shaken up the tiers a bit!

Hi guys, I have to level with you. When I first started on Patreon, I wasn't entirely sure about what to offer for my tiers. So I think it's been ok, but I don't feel like I've been able to offer you guys the value I'd like to in support for your pat...

Quick Tips

We're going to be putting out another Quick Tips volume this week, and so I'm going to put those up here so you guys can see them early.

Also, I'm thinking of switching around the way some of these tiers work. I find that it's more difficult for me...

Tutorial 72: Text Animator Modes

Every time I mess around with text animators, I find something else useful. This week, I played a bit with the modes to get an idea of how they can combine—to see what's possible. I didn't have a much time to explore as I would have liked, so pardo...

Tutorial 71: Greeble Wipes

I had some sort of stomach flu last week and I had to prepare for a shoot on Saturday so I must've missed this in my haste! Sorry about that. If you haven't seen this one yet, we take a look at a technique to use greeble textures as wipes and other m...

Tutorial 70: Pump up the Jam

In this week's tutorial we use an audio layer to drive animation without using third party plugins like Trapcode Soundkeys. We also get a sneak peak of our next script—tentatively named StackIt!

Also, if you want to try your hand at making some m...

Tutorial 69: Revealing Text

If I thought it was busy last week, I was in for a shock. Thankfully I recorded this early. I've actually edited the tutorial and written this from a hospital room because, like our daughter, our son is deciding to come slightly earlier than expected...

Tutorial 68: Outline Reveal

It's been a busy week over here, and I always get asked about how I make certain parts of our intros, so I figured this would be a good time to make a tutorial like this. It's not the most advanced, but it does show an easy way to create a nice revea...

Tutorial 67: Glitch Mapping

This tutorial expands upon Tutorial 65 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPYlMIPCwWE to show a much faster way to map and render ASCII characters as well as any other c...

Tutorial 66: Point Control

This tutorial explores a useful technique for tying a point control to position, so you can freely move a layer around that already has position animated, and save it as a preset. While you can also use the Transform effect for this, this en...

Tutorial 65: ASCII & Text Generation

Today we take a look at using an expression using sampleImage to generate text and make some really slow rendering ASCII art. I’m sure there are faster ways to do this, but this is an academic look at the process behind it, so that you can learn th...