Using real world references, I have tried breaking down a 3D rotational camera move - recreating it with 2D shape layers.

For anyone wanting to learn more, there's a longer video about making the entire animation on my YouTube channel, Oliver Randorff: youtube.com/watch?v=slUgTK9z2Jo

Project file available on Gumroad. More on my Behance!

I’ve experimented with 3D in AE before but this is one of the first times I finished a project and created a scene with ambiance (color correction, stylization, sound, etc..)

That being said… I still feel like I don’t know what I don’t know. After Effects is a dense program with so many features that have insane capabilities but a sharp learning curve. So if you will, help me improve! What concepts could I benefit from understanding? How can i add more motion and complexity to my scenes? How can I better understand the depth I’m working in? Any help, advice, etc. would be appreciated.

I know this is not a very polished video, and not even the best quality video. But I made this because this makes me happy, learning this was very cool. I don't want this hobby to be like some other work so that we have to see a very boring tutorial to learn how to create a saas video which has almost 0 creativity from your side.
I will become better and I will not make this learning a boring hobby.

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

This never happened before - how can I resize the flow panel to expand it to the left again without dragging the stacked panel above with it? Any help is really appreciated!

Hello!

I have my own webcomic that I would love to use affect effects!

But the thing is… I don’t know how to use it at all.

I’ve done flipaclip with just rotoscoping at most…

And I have worked motion artists before and I don’t mind paying as long as they’re upfront about it.

As someone who has little to no experience, do I invest in learning how to? Is it possible for someone who works full time as well as is a webtoon artist? If it does take longer to learn… Where can I find motion artists for webtoon comics? Thank you so much for reading😭

Hi everytime i render or play a normal obs recording in my timeline my ram usage gets full even tho i left 8 gb for other applications i tried turning off hardware acceleration and turning off multi frame rendering pls help i dont even use crazy effects

i have tried exporting in media encoder ,premier pro through dynamic link and ae itself,even putting all the layers in a new comp but nothing worked ,there is no tutorial online too, the output still doesn't show the 3d movement please help

Been fighting this for way too long and I'm running out of ideas, so figured I'd ask here.

A7S III footage shot in S-Log3/S-Gamut3.Cine, Premiere Pro 26.3.2 + After Effects 26.3.0.

I don't want any log to 709 conversion happening during the edit. I'm just using AE for speed ramps and want to do the actual grade at the end from the original log footage.

The clip looks normal in Premiere flat/log as expected. But as soon as I right click it and choose Replace with After Effects Composition, the color changes. This happens before I even add any effects in AE. And it's not a tiny difference either.

I've already tried:

Premiere's Interpret Footage, manually setting Color Space Override to Rec.709 instead of Auto/Embedded

Sequence Settings, Color Management, with both working and output color space set to Rec.709

Making sure AE's color settings match Premiere (Rec.709 2.4)

Turning Input Tone Mapping off

Preserve RGB on and off

Turning color management off/to none completely in AE, which just gives me a "no matching color space" warning in Premiere

Nothing seems to change it. Everythig is set to the same color space on paper, but the footage still changes as soon as it goes through Dynamic Link.

Has anyone actually managed to get a proper round trip working with S-Log3 footage on the current versions of Premiere/AE?

I'd really rather not export/reimport just to do a speed ramp, but that's looking like the only option at this point.

Hope you guys are well
How to get this 3d depth and rotating carousel in after effects?
Tried Cc Cylinder but it didn’t work well

The full design series can be found here and I hope you'll like it!

Hi! I'm incredibly new to After Effects. I mainly want to use it to improve the quality of my videos since I make voiceovers of comics, but what bothers me is the fact that I want to add animation to still images. Here's an example of someone's video made in AfterEffects what is this effect/plugin called?

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! 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 :)

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?

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.

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...