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Adobe After Effects | Child Tracking Part 2
In this video tutorial, Creative COW contributing editor Carl Larsen shows you how to use the track a child expression to create an interesting title sequence in Adobe After Effects.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 04/24/2009
Author: Carl Larsen |
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Adobe After Effects | Child Tracking Part 1
In this video tutorial, Creative COW contributing editor Carl Larsen shows you how to track the position of a parented layer using expressions in Adobe After Effects.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 04/11/2009
Author: Carl Larsen |
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Adobe After Effects | Creating The 007 Intro
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Michael Park shows you how to achieve that classic introduction to all of the James Bond films using only basic After Effects plugins.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 12/21/2008
Author: Michael Park |
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Adobe After Effects | Motion Stabilizing
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Grant Swanson will explain how to use the After Effects Motion Tracker to remove unwanted jitter and movement while still retaining the original motion of the sequence through the use of an expression or manual keyframes in After Effects.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 06/16/2008
Author: Grant Swanson |
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Adobe After Effects Expressions | AE Quick Tips #4: Copy Expression Only
In this video tutorial, CreativeCow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a menu item for speeding up the process of copying expressions to other layers, without typing or altering the current values.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 05/09/2008
Author: Aharon Rabinowitz |
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Trapcode | Creating Advanced Glitter using Expressions with Trapcode Particular
In this tutorial, Creative Cow leader, Michael Park, demonstrates another, more advanced method for creating shimmering glitter particles using Trapcodes Particular. The main advancement is the implementation of 3d rotation of the glitter particles, as well as using expressions to convert the rotation of the particles in all 3 axis to drive a greyscale map, which in turn is used to color the particle using colorama and create the shimmer effect when the particles face the camera.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 04/09/2008
Author: Michael Park |
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Adobe After Effects | Creating a Hologram Look in After Effects
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz returns to one of his earliest tutorials, Creating TV Look, and shows how it can be used to create the look of a Hologram as seen in science fiction movies.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 02/01/2008
Author: Aharon Rabinowitz |
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Adobe After Effects | Using Brainstorm in AE CS3
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how get the most out of Brainstorm, a new feature in AE CS3 that lets you visualize randomized layer properties and effects.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 12/13/2007
Author: Aharon Rabinowitz |
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Adobe After Effects | Light Writing Part 2
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to improve the look of the light writing effect covered in part 1, adding intense points of light and other improvement ideas.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 12/03/2007
Author: Aharon Rabinowitz |
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Adobe After Effects Expressions | Animating Text Reflections with Expressions
In this tutorial from Creative COW Contributing Editor Trent Armstrong, you'll see how to use Expressions to animate reflected light across text. You can get great results using only ingredients included free with AE, including track mattes and the AE Camera.
Tutorial 11/27/2007
Author: Trent Armstrong |
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Adobe After Effects | Light Writing Part 1
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use AE to simulate the popular light writing effect seen in recent Sprint commercials.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 11/20/2007
Author: Aharon Rabinowitz |
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Adobe After Effects | Creating an Automated Odometer: Part 2
In this video tutorial, with the guidance of the COWs expression guru Dan Ebberts, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to set up an automated odometer effect. If youve been wanting to dig deeper into expressions, then this is the tutorial for you.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 08/30/2007
Author: Aharon Rabinowitz |
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Adobe After Effects | CE Pixel Sampler
In this video tutorial from Creative COW you will learn how you can simplify the keying process, trigger expression events to control layers of your choice, and even do an automatic collision detection. The possibilities are endless.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 08/22/2007
Author: Jerzy Drozda Jr |
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Adobe After Effects Expressions | Swinging A Realistic Chain
Creative COW member Trent Armstrong shows you expression features that apply all the way from After Effects 5 to today. He combines his experience as an average expressions user with tips and shortcuts for many core features that every AE user will be able to start using today.
Tutorial 08/20/2007
Author: Trent Armstrong |
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Adobe After Effects | CE Time Shuffle
In this video tutorial, Jerzy Drozda Jr (aka Maltaannon) demonstrates time jittering effects using one of his presets. You may have seen this effect in movies like The Ring, The Cell, or Fight Club. You may still create this kind of effect simply by playing with the TimeRemap function, but its much easier using this preset.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 08/05/2007
Author: Jerzy Drozda Jr |
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Adobe After Effects | Radio Detection and Ranging
In this video tutorial from CreativeCOW.net you will learn how to create a radar that really works! You will draw the radar, animate the target over it, and watch how the radar detects the object by itself, marks it on the grid and even makes a beeping sound.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 07/30/2007
Author: Jerzy Drozda Jr |
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Adobe After Effects Expressions | Building and Animating a CG Snake
In this video tutorial from CreativeCOW.net you will learn how to create a dynamic animation based on a chain rig. You will also learn how to animate one layer using keyframes, expressions, or both, and make other layers follow the leading layer. The rest of the tutorial is about texturing and making the final look.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 07/29/2007
Author: Jerzy Drozda Jr |
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Adobe After Effects Expressions
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Adobe After Effects | Expression Controls #3
In this tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz takes a look at some advanced uses of expression controls, and shows you how you can make your expression more dynamic.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 03/15/2007
Author: Aharon Rabinowitz |
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Adobe After Effects | Expression Controls #2
In this tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz explores most of the expression controls, showing you how they can be used to enhance your projects and save time.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 03/02/2007
Author: Aharon Rabinowitz |
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Adobe After Effects | Expression Controls #1
In this tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz introduces you to expression controls, a series of effects designed only for use with After Effects expression.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 02/22/2007
Author: Aharon Rabinowitz |
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Adobe After Effects | Expression Tips #1
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you some basic expression principles and shares a very useful expression that can be used to convert one set of values to another.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 02/12/2007
Author: Aharon Rabinowitz |
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Adobe After Effects Expressions
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Adobe After Effects Expressions | A better Grid using expressions
This tutorial from Mylenium will show you some basic principles when using expressions in After Effects. These include using the pick whip and some simple things you need to think of when referencing elements and converting numerical values.
Tutorial 07/07/2005
Author: Mylenium |
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Adobe After Effects | Building Your Own 3D Particle Generator
In this tutorial, Dan Ebberts demonstrates a method of generating motion that is random in both time and space and allows you to quickly assemble a composition with a pleasantly fluid, chaotic movement. Using this particle generator, we'll look at how you might create explosions, smoke, a fire blast, falling snow, and even a liquid-like flow.
Tutorial 12/17/2003
Author: Dan Ebberts |
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Adobe After Effects | noise()
The After Effects expression language has a seldom-used random number generator that is really quite a gem. Dan Ebberts says "seldom-used" because he doesn't believe he's ever seen it used in a single expression he's seen posted on the internet. It's not the easiest command to understand and the documentation is pretty sparse but once you get past that it's very cool
Tutorial 12/12/2003
Author: Dan Ebberts |
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Adobe After Effects | Expressions in Adobe After Effects 6
With After Effects 6.0, Adobe has introduced some wonderful new functionality to the world of expressions. Most of this is the result of spectacular new features that have been added to After Effects that were not necessarily aimed at expressions but nonetheless dramatically increase the power available to the expression writer. There have also been a few changes and enhancements to the expression language itself.
Review, Tutorial 06/01/2003
Author: Dan Ebberts |
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Adobe After Effects | Building the World's Greatest Cameraman
With version 5.5 of After Effects, Adobe added the wonderful world of the powerful new Expression Controls. In this tutorial, Dan Ebberts looks at several different ways that expression controls can be useful in your projects.
Tutorial 10/29/2002
Author: Dan Ebberts |
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Adobe After Effects | Synchronizing Animation to Audio Using After Effects
In after Effects 5.5, Adobe has added the capability for expressions to access keyframe and marker data. In this tutorial, Dan Ebberts will focus on how to use this new capability to synchronize an animation to an audio track using layer markers and expressions.
Tutorial 07/26/2002
Author: Dan Ebberts |
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Adobe After Effects | Animating a Walk-Cycle Using Loop Expressions
With version 5.5 of After Effects, Adobe has included some new keyframe-looping expressions that can be very useful for cyclic animation and layer-looping. In this tutorial, Dan Ebberts walks us through the basics of how to set up and use these expressions and then we'll use one to loop a walk-cycle as you might do in a simple character animation.
Tutorial 04/19/2002
Author: Dan Ebberts |
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Adobe After Effects | Parenting and Expressions
Dan Ebberts demonstrates setting up an animation of a piston, crank, and wheel using parenting and expressions so that we only have to keyframe one of the pieces and the others follow along.
Tutorial 04/15/2002
Author: Dan Ebberts |
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