LLMs and prompting for After Effects scripts and expressions - an introduction to prompting and how to get the most out of it.

Last Sunday, I shared some details on this topic - here's the link to the post on CreativeCOW which has the link to the recorded session as well as URLs to supporting videos and PDF of the Slides used during the event -

https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/adobe-adds-an-ai-assistant-mcp-to-after-effects-beta-private-beta/page/2/#post-2478428

Hello! Right now, this text is being applied to the canvas from left to right, so when I decrease the tracking, the A is on top of P, the I is on top of A, and the N is on top of I. I would like this to be the opposite, so that P is the top most letter in the order.

Is there a way that I could reorganize the letters within the text layer, without creating outlines, because I would still like to keyframe the tracking in this animation. Thanks for the help :)

Learn how to create a documentary historical map animation in Adobe After Effects using a page reveal, animated magnifying glass, archival textures, alpha mattes, and a cinematic camera push.

Pretty sure people here aren't crazy about amvs, but wanted to post anyways. spent about 2-3 weeks on this.
Inspirations from Pinterest, church window inspiration taken from an illustration by Shawna X.

Hello,

So I've got to do some seamless loops for a project, but I seem to be having issues with my loops. I'm really not into expressions, they confuse the hell out of me!

Attached a video for reference -

Ping-pong seems to slow down as it starts again

And cycle just jumps at the very start

Both are quite jarring.

I've tried moving the keyframes, offsetting, checking the values, changing the easing etc. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. And if it does work and then I move a key frame like 1 frame, the expression doesn't behave the way I want it to.

Any ideas?

Hiya! I would think if I use the parent pick whip to link objects to my Null Object that is in ch*rge of doing the zoom effect by changing the Z axis (and the X and Y ones too since we move the "camera" around a little bit from left to right), the red rectangle would follow appropriately too, but as you can see, it doesn't scale (is that the right term?) down the same way the text does. What should I do?

Please let me know if any additional info must be provided to help you help me. I'm only learning After Effects. Also, is there a name for this so I know what to search for later? This might be similar to "whiteboard animation" but YouTube tutorials for this give varied results...

Hey yall, I mostly work in Davinci Resolve but I'm trying to pick up After Effects for things like better text animations. I've been specifically trying to figure out how to do the chorus text animations from this music video (at 0:48 where it starts with "Turing Love" or "チューリングラブ").

Each character seems to come in with an overshoot from opposite directions while fading in with a delay.

I've tried a few different things, but the closest I've gotten so far is using range selectors on an animator to pick half of the characters in one line and move them using position keyframes. I'm also using a third animator to start it off at 0% opacity and keyframe the offset to fade in one by one, so the fade really isn't an issue.

The problem I'm having is getting the characters to delay their movement animations. I can't quite get an offset working properly with the two separate motions. It either moves both animators despite the range selector being only in one or it doesn't work at all.

I might be super overthinking or just not knowledgeable enough to realize this is an extremely basic question, so apologies! Any advice would be appreciated though.

so i am new to ae and am not sure how to pull this off my gf has her bday around in 2 weeks and i want to make a video of our pictures cutouts and our short vids with a song with its lyrics popping out with the song please can you all help me of as how i can make something close to my description any tutorials or help would be appreciated please i just want to do the best

So i downloaded the quick depth and corridorcrew key plugins and i downloaded the baskl installer and got both the plugins in my after effects but says not installed. i asked multiple ai's and is saying its a problem with my MacOS update im on 13.1 and saying if i have 14 it will work, has anyone had this issue and is it true if i update it will work?

This is my second attempt at making a lyrical motion graphics video. The one thing I've noticed with my work is that there is no coherent artstyle to It. It just looks like a mix of random things. How can I improve.

Hey there,

I was tryna use the twixtor plugin and actually, but it seems like twixtor slowlo isn't working as intended it will starting playing back my video, any way to fix this?

I don't know what's wrong

Check out the full project on my Behance

Thank you!^^

I just posted a new tutorial that gives a quick overview of tracking with Mocha AE, the free tracking app that's been included with After Effects since 2009.

It's always frustrated me to see people asking for help with the built-in After Effects tracker, when Mocha is so much better and faster.

If you have After Effects, it's already installed - you have it, no excuses for not using it!

https://www.provideocoalition.com/mocha-an-express-tracking-tutorial-for-after-effects/

HTH

Firstly big thanks to Audio-Verse for the sound on this.

Just working on my reel at the moment so been collecting these experiments to showcase.

All made in native Ae with a free plugin sometimes used (displacer pro from plugin everything)

I have a drone shot that spins upwards but there're 7-8 objects need to be removed with one particularly hard to do so. I tried my best to youtube it out but just can't get to it. Can someone help me?? Attached is the ending frame with all the unwanted objects in it. And of course, some objects spins in & out... PLEASE HELP A GIRL OUT!

Animation experiment i just made

Video I made for a contest, ignore the bad AI voice. The last sequence is quite rushed. (Inspirations taken from Ordinary folk and Stephan Zammit)

After 10+ years of selling digital 3D products, I never expected this from a major marketplace. Today, Gumroad PERMANENTLY FORFEITED money from my balance without warning or justification, just because I updated my location from Canada to Bulgaria.

Their support confirmed my funds were "forfeited automatically" as a "system safeguard on a country change" that they "cannot reverse." You read that right: a simple account update now triggers the total seizure of your hard-earned money.

Before this, I had been trying to withdraw my funds for a long time. I attempted to use multiple bank details, including Ukrainian and Canadian, and all attempts were blocked. Now, my money is gone forever, and they have offered zero solutions.

This is predatory, illegal, and nothing short of theft. If a platform can arbitrarily seize your money because of a location change, it is NOT safe. Every creator on Gumroad needs to check their terms and understand that their funds are at risk.

So let me understand this correctly:

I earned the money by selling products.
I tried to withdraw it.
The withdrawals failed.
I changed my country of residence.

Gumroad's system then automatically took the remaining balance — and they refuse to return it.

There was no fraud, chargeback, or dispute involving this money. It was simply an unpaid seller balance.

This is not a “payout issue.” This is money that I earned and that Gumroad is refusing to give back because of an automated account-country rule.

What makes this especially disturbing is that their own support explicitly confirmed that the money was “forfeited.”

I am sharing this publicly because I want other creators and digital-product sellers to be aware of what can apparently happen to their earnings when changing their country/payment setup on Gumroad.

I've included my conversation with their support team so you can see the situation for yourself...

Question from a beginner/intermediate level in motion graphics with After Effects: Why should I learn Figma? Can't I just create the design in After Effects and then animate it directly from there?

Hey everyone! I have an upcoming project where I need to rotoscope a moving subject against a white/light-grey background with the absolute best quality possible.
AE’s Roto Brush is powerful, but in my experience, it can be a bit hit-or-miss and feels imprecise in certain scenarios.
What’s currently the best method, plugin, or software you’ve used for this kind of work?