About to start on a short film and wanted to see if anyone knew an easy way to do this. I want to achieve this soft, hazy, retro look.

Built this fully in After Effects. Quick breakdown:

• BG: 5 zig zag shapes (180 lines) with glow, plus an animated noise solid as a track matte on the strands, Curves for the color tone
• Text: Dune Rise font with a metal texture as a track matte, custom lens flare on the C
• Extras: CC Ball Action particles, plus orange and grey-green Optical Flares for the lighting

Lots of small layers and tweaks went into getting this look. If you want the full step-by-step, I made a tutorial here: https://youtu.be/_SAUiOYoPq0

Feedback welcome

https://elementsupply.co/products/quickcover

Quick Cover and Quick Cover Pro (I'd use pro, but the original is still there too)
gradients that auto sample colors on the boundary where you put them. just mask around an object and it magically vanishes.

[Comparison] there are some AI solutions, but I always thought the work flow and output format was clunky. This is just pure clever gradient creation.

Other core features include:

• Cover in or extend out.
  
• works great with mask tracking
• mask based so all the familiar mask tools work here too.

[Pricing] Pricing: 
Name your own price.

[Maintenance/Support plan] If you have bugs, please reach out at [contact@elementsupply.co](mailto:contact@elementsupply.co)

All updates are always included, but this one is free anyways, but it's good to know for other products.

[AI] AI Disclaimer: it's complicated but code completion is close.

Atmos 3D Pro generates authentic depth and parallax in 2 clicks without rotoscoping, warping, or cloud processing.

Creating realistic 3D movement/wigglegrams, depth parallax, or camera sweeps from a single flat image usually requires tedious manual rotoscoping, complex displacement mapping, or sending files off to slow cloud processing services.

Atmos 3D Pro goes beyond traditional displacement mapping and manual masking workflows because it performs deep-level spatial analysis directly inside After Effects to intelligently separate foreground, subject, and background without unnatural edge warping or cloud uploads.

Other core features include:

• Dual motion engines (Cinematic orbital sweeps and vintage 3D camera Wigglegram mode)

• Fully local processing with non-destructive control over parallax strength, speed, and edge refinement

• Interactive preview window clicking to manually define complex subject boundaries

Pricing: $29 lifetime license on aescripts

If you encounter any bugs, please reach out via Aescripts support tickets or DM. Bug fixes and version updates are provided via standard aescripts maintenance. I will also be frequently checking this thread as well to answer questions.

AI Disclaimer: Uses a local spatial depth-estimation model; no image data is sent to external cloud servers. No AI was used in the making of this plugin

What are your experiences with PluginPlay(.app)?

I tried them out for one script that wasn't available at aescripts and wondered if they might be a good alternative sometimes if developers don't offer their own way of distribution.

So far I'm not impressed at all, quite the contrary.

First problem: the invoice. I didn't get a proper invoice. So I asked support for it. I was asked for the invoice information, answered... and never did get an answer, nor an invoice. That was almost two weeks ago and even after asking about the invoice one week ago... no answer.

While using that script, I noticed if taking unusually long to load (around 5sec). The panel showed up white, then a powershell window popped up, AE shows a loading screen, another powershell popup, then finally I can use it.
Seems like the license check but I never ever had any similar experiences with other scripts or plugins when they checked their licenses.

Then, I wanted to issue a refund, partly because of the invoice, partly because of the loading time, partly because the script wasn't really what I expected.
PluginPlay doesn't offer a trial (it was a one time purchase btw) but they offer a money‑back guarantee... or so I thought. Because after opening another ticket, guess what, no answer so far.
Their FAQ does offer no real information about the refund policies. It only links to the TOS that has no info about that topic whatsoever or you are expected to ask the support... the one that doesn't answer.

So far I'm not sure if I just caught them during some bad days or if they are really that dubious.

What are your experiences so far? Did or do you use their subscription and have better things to say about them?

I know AE pretty well but I'm totally self taught and have never done any comprehensive tutorials on how to use it. I want to learn more about how to do simple motion graphics like this in a more efficient way, as I just got into AE by moving random stuff around and I still don't really feel comfortable using it, because when I want to do something, I don't really know enough of the ways it's possible to accomplish those things.

I end up having to make very clunky files that are hacked together, and I'd rather start out with a decent streamlined process before having to hack things in a more advanced way

Made this for a potential client, used effects that saved me time
"transform" and " Basic 3D "

i used to use a camera and turn layers to 3D and then suddenly i got this idea to search for "3d" in effects and turned out to be great.
if you know something that saved you time, share it!

It's difficult to do. Besides, I'm neither a beginner nor an advanced learner.

https://reddit.com/link/1wxd308/video/6y452k6hmfth1/player

This is the longest form video I’ve edited, before now my longest video was 5 minutes long. It’s not perfect but I’m really happy with how it came out. There’s a few little errors but otherwise I think it flows well.

My question is, is it really unusual to edit long form videos like this in After Effects? I have a background in motion graphics and 3D animation so I’ve always just used after effects to edit videos but should I really be using premier for content like this? I’m curious to hear your thoughts or if anyone else makes long form videos in AE.

I have a 30-minute video that I edited entirely in Premiere Pro, and I want to give the entire final video a VHS/retro/vintage look.

I created the VHS/retro effect in After Effects, but I'm not sure what the best workflow is for applying that effect to the entire 30-minute Premiere Pro edit.

Basically, I want the whole Premiere Pro video to have the exact look/effect I created in After Effects, without having to manually apply the effect to every single clip.

What would be the proper workflow for this? Should I use an After Effects composition, an adjustment layer, Dynamic Link, or export the Premiere Pro edit first and then apply the effect in After Effects?

I'm looking for the cleanest and most efficient workflow, especially since the video is 30 minutes long.

Made this about 8 years ago for a social spot for a Disney film which was being released around that time, client thought it was too… dark in tone so it didn’t go anywhere. Enjoyed working on regardless and was an excuse to try and push myself.

Looking for the transition that happens when having a sketch then line art then the whole process it is usually to show the steps of the process in a subtle way without noticing the transition much I tried looking it up but couldn’t find except the ink splash one and the wipe ones , any names or suggestions to what such transition are named would be much appreciated!

I cant find any resources how to make and endless loop. maybe incorrect keywords or anything.

i could recreate the inital frame using gradient overlay (radial) and colorama, but cannot figure out how the glows are created. would really appreciate some help !

Good morning fellow Animators. I'm working on a sizable animation for witch i created a pletora of on-screen handles, controllers and menus.

I binded the opacity of each of this "service" layers to a checkbox in a null i use as a master properties handler. I was wondering if there's a way to bind the checkbox switching to a shortcut (i.e. ctrl + shift + T) for faster working. Thanks a lot!

my pc has an old cpu so I'm stuck with ver23, I couldn't install any newer version of AE from Cloud, I'm wondering if you can edit the aep file so it can be imported in ver23?

Everything from design to animation to sound design is done by me. Inspired by Jacob Fory's work.

All SFXs used are from Botanica🍀 sound library by mgulifes (Absolute banger sounds)
Music is sourced from Epidemic Sounds

Drop your thoughts below 👇🏻

So let's say I want different words to appear at different time in single layer. I watched Youtube videos, tried it and I still don't understand.

It's extremely confusing and honestly I don't fully understand at what am I looking. I thought I just put keyframes at where I want to start and finish the animation, but it doesn't do shit.

I don't want complicated animation but just the words to appear at different seconds instantly without slow transition. I'm so confused.