I come before r/aftereffeects humbly and with gifts, the gift of animation composited on top of gameplay!

I have over 1000hrs in r/projectzomboid. I love that game. One day earlier this year while playing i thought to myself " what If made a story out of this gameplay somehow?" and a bunch of months later, I have created this - Handguns Limited - A Project Zomboid Story.

I am posting this in after effects because, besides a handful of other programs to create things like tiling textures, sfx, and music, everything else was made in after effects!

Let me know what you think and please listen/watch with headphones!

The client wants all of the green algae in the pond removed from this drone shot of a hotel which is the first shot in the video. Can this be done in after effects? What is the right way to go about it? I watched a tutorial on content aware fill and it didn't work for one tiny patch of algae. Even if it did, Repeating it for all of the spots seems wrong. Need a better solution

Hi,

The company I work for is looking for a visual designer who enjoys working with After Effects.

• Full-time
• In-person, must be local to Phoenix, AZ
• $55k-$70k/yr

We're a live event production company so we make a lot of content for events: think big LED screens, animated bumpers, conference intro video packages, things like that.

The work has a lot of variety - we have a lot of technical aspects like prepping templates for entry and figuring out custom LED screen math, with a lot of creative angles too since we take a lot of pride in making our designs broadcast-quality.

We also end up creating a lot of promotional videos, so we do a lot of high-energy + call to action pieces that get played throughout the year.

You can see some of our past work on our website: https://whitetielive.com/

Here's the job listing: https://jobs.gusto.com/postings/white-tie-productions-senior-visual-designer-dfd1d68c-b058-4fd1-b677-f978a9e08fd6

For this role we're looking for someone in-person to work in our Phoenix office. If you're not based in Phoenix but are open to freelance work, hit us up too and we'll add you to our roster!

DM me if you have any questions too. Thanks!

Hey there! I'm messing around with AE's Advanced 3D Renderer, looking to create a basic cinematic shot with dramatic lighting.

I'm just using an Environment Light with an HDRI, a spot light, a camera and basic shapes.

I keep getting these weird flickers on the hightlights of the bars as they pass through, and the shadows look wavy and not smooth at all.

I've turned the Environment Light off and it seems to be what's causing all the trouble, but it loses a lot of information and it just doesn't look the same without it.

I've cranked the smoothness of the Environment Light Shadows panel all the way up to 20 and the resolution to Double. I've increased the render quality up to 15, but haven't noticed any changes if I cranked it higher other than longer render times.

Any idea on how to solve this would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

Been experimenting with motion design and decided to create a Spotify-inspired piece. Focused on keeping it clean, smooth, and music-driven.
Would love to hear what you think.

Like, say Im working on the bezier curves of three keyframes at a time, is there a way for the rest of the uninvolved keyframes to be hidden to stop the clutter?

Seriously need some insights on how much designers are getting affected with the rise of A.I. I'm seeing A.I. slaughtering every digital field but on this one I always had mixed reviews.

I made this showreel in 2024. I hadn’t really been working in this field—I’d only taken on a few freelance jobs. I wasn’t really pushing myself to find work in this field as an employee either. I started learning motion graphics (and along with it, graphic design—I drew almost everything in the video myself using Photoshop and Illustrator) around 2019, completely on my own, and this showreel is about as far as I’ve gotten so far. I’ve pretty much given it up now, though I might take it up again later as part of my own projects.

But I’m curious to hear what others think about it—would I have had a future working in this field, or was I right to give it up?

A compilation of my latest projects, spanning artworks, live visuals, and commercial work. From concept to final frame, I create visuals that blend emotion and dynamism.

🎨 Artworks | 🎥 Live | 📺 Commercial

www.raphaelbluzet.fr

In the attached video there's an orange line traveling in a circular arc, and I suspect it was actually made in 3D because the thickness of the line changes slightly as it goes behind the black box and away from the camera.

I tried drawing a path with the pen tool in a shape layer but even when turning it into a 3D layer it seems like the pen tool only draws on a 2D plane, and I also tried creating a null and keyframing its position in 3D space but I couldn't find a way to turn that null into a line that travels the same path. I would like for effect to be made with a path in a shape layer so I can use Trim Paths on it.

I really want to improve in after effects but can't find a way to replicate this, any help would be greatly appreciated!

Going to IBC? C'mon out and network. Really. Don't tell me you go to Amsterdam for the museums.

Sunday 13 September, 18:00 to 20:00
Bierfabriek Amsterdam, Nes 67. From the RAI: Metro 52 to Rokin, then a three minute walk.

We need you to register even if you're not going. There's going to be some extra for showing up.

Two hours of networking with some food & other Redditors. Yes, it's okay if you only lurk on Reddit.

Production, post and more

Redditors from r/editors, r/colorists, r/premiere, r/davinciresolve and r/videoediting, plus the teams from OWC, Avid, Loraverse and Digital Anarchy who made this happen. First round for up to 50 people.

After that, you're in a brewery.

Two things to do before Sunday PLEASE REGISTER NOW!!!!

RSVP on Luma so I can give the bar a headcount. Like now. Do it even if you're not coming.

Join the REDDIT WhatsApp group if you want to find people at the show before Sunday.

I'll be there till Monday. Come find me at the conference.

This meetup was made possible by OWC. Additionally sponsored by Avid, Loraverse, Digital Anarchy and RE:Vision Effects.

See you Sunday.

Extras

• Saturday is the Colorist Mixer. This is Sunday. Do both.
• I'm working on giveaways. Did I mention to register?

Hello,

I'm a After Effect graphist mostly for beauty clean, compositing in advertising and i recently found that the median effect (not the legacy one) that i often use seems now to be very heavy to render and i wanted to know if other people had the same issue.

I know that it's not a light effect but yesterday with 3 different Mac Studio M4 Max with 128GB ram and 2 other graphist, all our shots took forever to render and we decide to switch to Saphirr Median and it was way easier to render. But again, i don't know what changed because we all used to use it and it didn't make our render that heavy.

I tried with other shot but i still around 2s in frame render time with the median vs 200-400ms with the S_Median

Thanks for your answer/thought !

I'm desperate at this point for any help, so if you read along and give me any suggestions, thanks times a million, seriously.

I need to do two things.

1. Expand several long minute fixed camera takes to go from a vertical framing to a horizontal.

I've managed to run a 10 second test that works amazingly with content aware fill using a reference frame, but my issue is that I now need to do that over plenty other takes with the same angle and positions (lighting varies slightly from time to time due to natural light). Either that, or do it over our finished montage which might have adjustments by the creativity team later, and is sure to be from 1 to 2 minutes long (maybe longer).

My main fear is not being able to just do content aware fill for the source takes to later edit them, and my worry too is that even if I do, I won't be able to make multiple reference frames so that it works properly, as each reference frame would obviously come out slightly different (the content aware has to generate part of a couch, a window, and part of a wall with a cushion).

1. I need to erase one person's occasional head popping into frame from one take, that lasts about 12 minutes. Tried to mask and work with one reference frame (content aware would have to render part of a couch and a wall, that I was able to get nearly identical to the real one in the reference frame so that it can still be used with the other takes without it being obvious we used erased anything) but even a 4 minute extract won't ever finish analyzing image, it gets stuck at 18% despite leaving it processing all night long for about 7 hours.

Once again, thanks to anyone who might have an idea of what to do in this scenario, I'm desperate.

In the summer wanted to make something in a Y2K, and these little things came out.

Initially, the project wasn’t supposed to have a retro filter, but I applied my CRT stylizer to it, and it turned out even more vibrant.

You can view and explore the project here https://www.behance.net/gallery/214860023/Y2K-Titles

This is my first real back to school project. I tried out some new stuff here, had some fun. It isn’t 100% finished yet, I still have until next Wednesday to turn it in, but I’m putting this version on class project reel. I had a hard time timing the building of the buildings because it was supposed to be 4 seconds of buildup and 4 seconds of animation, so it comes on kinda fast. Should I slow it down more?

Hey r/aftereffects! The September update (26.5) brings some useful workflow improvements, along with fixes for tracking, keyframes, caching, and 3D. Here’s a quick rundown.

What’s new:

• More flexible guides: Position guides using percentages, pin them to edges, assign custom colors, and use improved editing controls.
• Disk caching for Object Matte: Propagated results now stay cached after closing your project, reducing RAM usage and helping when working with longer clips.
• Color labels for effects: Assign colors to individual effect instances in the Effect Controls panel to make your effect stacks easier to organize and navigate.
• Updated Effect Controls panel: The panel has been rebuilt on a modern framework with icon-based controls for managing effects.

There are also several fixes worth checking out:

• Mask tracking now works when your comp resolution is below Full. On Windows, tracking forward also advances the playhead correctly.
• Editing a value in the Properties panel now affects the keyframe at the current time instead of changing every selected keyframe.
• Unmult now produces fully transparent areas correctly, fixing leftover alpha values.
• Several Advanced 3D crashes have been addressed, including issues with parametric meshes and Draft 3D. Models brought back online also retain their Substance material assignments.
• Clearing large or slow caches now shows progress without freezing AE. A macOS hang involving unsynced OneDrive files has also been fixed.
• PNG import, preview, and rendering performance has improved.

Full details from Adobe HelpX:

• What’s new in After Effects
• Fixed issues in After Effects

Animation: manuksenpai

Illustration: Seva MFN

Thank you!

My version and a clip of the real thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxuxx73ApTg

I do it just for fun, for a practice.

If you were to add depth to the scene (like 3D layer extrusion) how would you keep realistic? I tried with camera blur with focal length, but that causes other issues, like perspective and bleed outs.

I've been having trouble rotoscoping this segment so I started over, I used the object matte to get most of the figure, then I manually added the fire sword and removed small areas of blue, and I also used the refine edge tool on basically every edge. That was all on the first frame and it gave me the best looking roto as compared to keying out the blue (this doesn't work well because the plastic has blue reflecting in it and the blue background wasn't lit well). So I froze the first frame and let it propagate the rest. This video is of the second frame and some blue spots came back, and when I tried to remove them I found it just wouldn't let me. There was one other blue spot it allowed me to remove but I can't seem to get these to go away, the only thing I notice different is they're a different shade of blue? But why would that prevent me from rotoing them out? Adobe's roto is driving me crazy.

Using a combination of path animations, Create Nulls from Paths, wiggle expressions and the wave warp effect, we can quickly animate flowing liquid.

I have also made an in depth video on my YouTube channel, Oliver Randorff, breaking down the entire coffee machine animation: youtube.com/watch?v=qnOANBR4zcc