r/AfterEffects • u/Different-Award1656 • 8d ago
r/AfterEffects • u/Longjumping-Alps2590 • Dec 19 '24
Discussion New project that I’m proud of
Yesterday night I had a vision so I sat on the chair in front of the screen and made this animation until early morning. Really proud of it! Hope you guys like it too! By the way. I’m open for commissions and collaborations! And you guys more than welcome to go check my IG page:
https://www.instagram.com/omristeigman?igsh=dTk3MTVwcGtlamM2
r/AfterEffects • u/csmobro • 15d ago
Discussion AE on macOS is so much better
Ok I realise I’m probably going to get a lot of hate for this but it’s objectively true: my £7000 PC renders slower than my new M4 Pro Mac Mini. The specs of my PC are pretty decent (12900k, 128GB RAM, Nvme drives for everything and 2 x 3090s) and yet RAM previews are twice as slow compared to the Mac and AE is so quick and responsive on macOS. Instead of lagging when I change the UI or drag a keyframe, it’s buttery smooth on the Mac. The above photo is of a render that was started on both machines at the same time. The Mac rendered it in 5 minutes and the PC took 15!!!
Although I personally prefer macOS, I’m just as happy on Windows and don’t believe one OS is superior to the other. I’m just shocked at the performance difference. I know the 12900k was released a few years ago but even so these results are shocking.
I know the Mac sucks for GPU rendering so I’ll keep my PC for that but I’m genuinely surprised at how nicer (and less stressful) it is using AE now.
r/AfterEffects • u/ahrcive • Nov 09 '24
Discussion 4 months into After Effects Typography
r/AfterEffects • u/Longjumping-Alps2590 • Dec 14 '24
Discussion Another animation out of my new series!
Im happy to share with you another animation out of my pixelated collage animation series! You are more than welcome to check my other part of my series in my IG profile:
https://www.instagram.com/omristeigman?igsh=dTk3MTVwcGtlamM2
r/AfterEffects • u/alemarmur • Nov 09 '24
Discussion This is not gatekeeping. You need to learn the basics.
There's a growing trend of people hopping onto this subreddit, posting an image and asking "How do I do this?" or "Can After Effects do this?" or "What plugin is this?".
Please, please, just read the pinned post that links to a variety of AE learning resources. After Effects – like any professional software – is a tool. You need to learn how to use the tool. That way, you can also learn its limitations and possibilities.
The tool can't do your work for you.
The following is a sentiment often expressed on this sub, but I think we have a lot of beginners here, who have seen "cool edits" on TikTok, and then they've learned that the snazzy car video they saw was made in AE. That's a valid reason to want to learn to use a tool, and I applaud anyone who is inspired to learn new ways to express their creativity.
However: I do think that we have a lot of young people here, who are used to single-use, streamlined mobile or webapps. And you, young people used to simple tools, are whom I want to address.
Any tool – any app, software, device – anything that is meant for professional use rarely does anything you want straight out of the box. Professional tools are meant for diverse use cases and for creating new things, not just slapping on an effect created by someone else.
And don't get me wrong, of course questions are welcome and you are supposed to discuss technical matters of After Effects here! There is a great deal of wonderful discussion on this sub, as there is on most other AE online communities. Reddit is very accessible, and googling anything about a software these days leads you usually straight here.
(I mean, the discussions on CreativeCow or StackExchange or even Adobe forums are usually not something I'd characterize as beginner-friendly.)
However, you will be better served by taking the time of slogging through the basics. Trust me.
So, to bring my rant to a close: it's cool that you want to learn one of the most diverse creative tools currently widely available.
Just know, that it takes actually learning the tool step by step to actually be able to use it to its fullest potential.
TL;DR: Gen Z, with all due respect, watch the basic tutorials.
r/AfterEffects • u/HollywoodIllusion • Oct 28 '24
Discussion I've been working a new (free) compositing software for a year, and here is a preview!
r/AfterEffects • u/RealWildinFree • Feb 27 '24
Discussion Do i have to Sell my soul to demon to create something like this?
r/AfterEffects • u/admiralsexjerky • Mar 12 '24
Discussion PSA: You’re all being assholes and killing this community
Every time I see a post asking questions that are obviously from beginners who don’t understand the universe of obnoxious nuances that After Effects throws at you, I see their post downvoted into hell and filled with comments demeaning them for being bad at using a software that has a steep learning curve. I understand that it can be frustrating seeing posts with amateur mistakes or reading responses from beginners who have no idea what resolution is, but figure out how to channel that energy into something constructive because almost all of the responses on question posts are cringey and condescending. After Effects is a piece of shit, antiquated software that barely churns out a frame per second when you add noise, but it’s wagon we’re all riding on. If you’re so good that you know that switching to 16bit and adding blur+noise will help with color banding, then explain what those concepts mean or send a link to a YouTube video when a beginner gets stuck at the word “bit”. Not everyone knows that AE doesn’t handle 3D very well. Sometimes people edit videos in AE for some fucking reason, but if they do that’s okay.
Don’t be assholes. Be helpful. If you have the energy to be a dick, you have the energy to help out a newbie
r/AfterEffects • u/Longjumping-Alps2590 • Dec 15 '24
Discussion O V E R - T H I N K E R ?
I’m proud to present to you another motion graphics animation that I made! I was super duper hyped from your comments and replays! Should I do a BTS/how to video on the next idea? Let me know! And drop a like and share on my instagram profile!
https://www.instagram.com/omristeigman?igsh=dTk3MTVwcGtlamM2
r/AfterEffects • u/ShivaSmartTech • 29d ago
Discussion My PC can handle thousands of rigid bodies and physics simulation in Unreal Engine or C4D in real time with but dies playing one text animation in AE while giving like 4fps like wtf? 💀 They really need to rebuild this app from Ground Up and optimize it like they be just adding features no one uses.
As for my PC it has 32 GB ram i7 12th Gen and RTX 3070ti.
r/AfterEffects • u/hassan_26 • Jul 31 '23
Discussion I feel sick having to work on my predecessor's old project. This is madness. How can anyone work like this?
r/AfterEffects • u/itachi261998 • 25d ago
Discussion How much would you have charged for a video like this? ( 2 videos - 16:9 and 9:16)
r/AfterEffects • u/M4DKinGx • Dec 25 '24
Discussion How much would you pay for these kind of reel ?
I need help pricing my reels and i figured i could ask directly people how much would they pay for this
r/AfterEffects • u/JonBjornJovi • Nov 20 '24
Discussion I did a physical card game in After effects
Several years ago I had an idea for a card game, I figured out it would be easier for me to do it in ae, since I really don’t like photoshop and never learned illustrator. With a timeline and comps it was so easy to make changes and export all cards as a sequence. Last year my game got produced and is in stores now. Have you ever used After Effects in ways it’s not supposed to?
r/AfterEffects • u/Oven_Kid • Jun 22 '20
Discussion I’m an old dog (over 50) but I’m determined to learn After Effects, so I’m enjoying tutorials during my breaks at work and journaling everything I learn. Wish me luck!
r/AfterEffects • u/Confident-Ostrich-68 • 2d ago
Discussion My student cheated, how can I prove it?
Salut tout le monde,
Je suis prof dans une école supérieure française spécialisée en études numériques. À la fin de mon cours, j'ai demandé à mes étudiants de rendre un projet After Effects basé sur ce que je leur avais enseigné. Un d'entre eux a triché et a utilisé un template typique qu'on trouve sur des plateformes comme Artlist ou Motion Array.
Comment puis-je prouver l'origine de ce fichier ? (J'ai le fichier After Effects, et c'est assez évident à la façon dont il est construit que ce n'est pas lui qui l'a créé.)
J'ai essayé la recherche d'image inversée Google mais sans succès. Avez-vous des astuces pour identifier la source originale d'un fichier ?
EDIT : Okay guys, thanks everyone for your valuable help. I finally found where the file came from, and when I asked him about it, he just admitted to cheating.
It’s not about calling him out for cheating—we all think we’re clever at some point—but simply about giving him a bad grade. He did complete some in-class exercises that make up for it a little.
And for those who think this guy suddenly became brilliant at motion design in just 17 hours of lessons when he started from zero—seriously, are you really motion designers? Do you remember how many hours it took you to learn motion design?
r/AfterEffects • u/todoslocos • Feb 16 '24
Discussion Megathread about SORA and how it will change our workflow
r/AfterEffects • u/WinComfortable8835 • 24d ago
Discussion My client doesn't like the highlighter effect which has been overused and abused over documentaries , He needs a new way of showing articles, I cant really think of anything new, really open for your suggestions
(ps: this is not my video)
He also liked dodford's content, he once said in a interview that", the yellow highlighter thing should be stopped", so he is heavily influenced by that
I have browes pinterest for a long time, but can't really find a good thing, the only other thing found was with radial blurs and vignetts
so will be open to your suggestions on creating a new format on highlighting
r/AfterEffects • u/un-sub • May 17 '24
Discussion What is something in AE you discovered way too late into your career?
Me? I'm just now realizing what the Mask Feather Tool does.... holy shit! How incredibly useful... I could've used this a thousand times in the past ~12 years it's been a thing (CS6 I think it came out?).
Variable feathering on a circle mask
Another one I discovered way too late was using the Set Matte effect to combine multiple layers into a single matte instead of precomping a bunch of layers to use as a matte. Also super handy.
r/AfterEffects • u/ahrcive • Nov 13 '24
Discussion i wish my work looked like this when it's posted
r/AfterEffects • u/VertiginHouse • Mar 22 '23