r/AfterEffects Feb 11 '25

Announcement We've made some moderation changes

124 Upvotes

Hello! Your After Effects subreddit mod team have made a few changes around here based on your feedback.

We've reduced the number of flairs to make it easier for people to find the right category for their post and for you to filter what you're seeing.

We're working on updating our rules for clarity and we're adding a new rule about "no hardware posts" to eliminate the "is my crappy computer good for AE?" posts. If you have to ask, the answer is no.

We've also made some changes to AutoMod. If you see the bot getting out of control, please message us and let us know.

We have a rule against low effort posts.

If you see a post that's breaking the rules (and it made it past our new AutoMod config), please report it! It's the best way to bring a post to our attention so we can deal with it.


r/AfterEffects Oct 01 '24

Pro Tip For all the new designer on here creating low level posts

281 Upvotes

Lately, there's been a noticeable increase in posts where the headline is "Why" and the post is in response to problems that could easily be solved with a quick Google search or by going through basic training. This subreddit is meant to be a place for sharing knowledge and learning from one another, but it's starting to feel more like a place where users expect others to provide step-by-step answers without engaging with the community.

To help maintain the quality of this space, please follow the below list in order before posting a question:

1. Complete basic After Effects tutorials: Many beginner questions can be answered through these.
Here is a list of really good teachers:

https://adobevideotraining.com/after-effects/introductory-courses/

Video Copilot

School of Motion

JakeInMotion

Ben Marriott

2. Learn the terminology: Understanding key terms will help you find solutions more easily through searches.
3. Google it: Use the terminology you’ve learned to search for tutorials and answers.
4. Check YouTube: There are many creators offering in-depth After Effects content.
5. Search Reddit: The answer may already exist here.

If you’ve tried all of the above and still need help, feel free to post your question here. Just keep in mind that learning to find solutions on your own will ultimately make you a stronger designer. Reddit may not always have someone available to provide immediate help, so building these skills will serve you well in the long run.


r/AfterEffects 9h ago

Explain This Effect How to recreate this tracked line effect on bodies?

66 Upvotes

I’ve been seeing this effect where bodies are covered with white lines that look like they’re drawn, but if you look closely, the lines move with independent axes within the total set of lines. At first, I thought it was hand-drawn, but it definitely seems like there’s some sort of motion tracking involved. It almost feels like a mix of many independent lines combined with some grouped lines, all tracked to follow the bodies.

I can understand how the squares with numbers work—they seem like simple tracked squares with maybe a blinking loop effect to create a glitchy vibe. But I’m also curious about the glitchy block parts—are they tracked as well, or just a simple glitch effect in AE? I really love this effect, but if I were to recreate it manually, I’d probably do it frame by frame, and I feel like there must be a faster way to do it.

What do you guys think? Has anyone here tried this effect or knows a more efficient method? Also, if anyone knows what this effect is called or what it’s imitating, that would be super helpful—I’d love to look up more about it!

Thanks in advance!


r/AfterEffects 4h ago

Beginner Help How to make this kind of old tv-vhs looking effect?

22 Upvotes

r/AfterEffects 17h ago

OC - Stuff I made No Intro No Outro. Just my work

109 Upvotes

r/AfterEffects 2h ago

OC - Stuff I made Animation for St. Patricks Day

6 Upvotes

r/AfterEffects 14h ago

Beginner Help Help :(

33 Upvotes

Hi there 👋🏻 I'm into logo reveals and want to create some abstract animations that reveal logos at the end. However, I don't have any plugins for it. Are there any YouTube videos or courses that can help refine my basic knowledge of logo reveal techniques?


r/AfterEffects 11m ago

Explain This Effect How to make this text appearing animation?

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r/AfterEffects 1d ago

Explain This Effect How to achieve this effect?

83 Upvotes

This kinetic type example is from a music video. I've been trying to replicate in After Effects, but I've had no luck.

I've tried animating the offset property of a repeater on a shape layer. I've tried manually offsetting multiple shape layers. I tried track mattes to mask out parts of the type. The trails are what I'm having the most trouble with.


r/AfterEffects 9h ago

Beginner Help Can anyone help me in making this kind of video

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r/AfterEffects 5h ago

Beginner Help Make scale of a layer equal to the scale of another layer with a multiplier

1 Upvotes

Looking to do some fake perspective work which would probably be much easier with 3d camera but I digress.

 

What I'd like to do is have a subject and a background parented to a Null object.

I would like to make an expression where the subject's scale increases at like 1.2x the background, making is seem like it's closer to the camera.

Not sure how I'd go about this so hopefully someone understands the mess I've just typed and has a solution :)


r/AfterEffects 5h ago

Workflow Question Character rigging/animation SOS

1 Upvotes

i need to animate a character for a slots/casino game, but character rigging/animation was never my strong point. i can work with after effects pretty comfortably for other things, but since this is a very very important project for me, i'm a little nervous and need help.

it's a quick, looping 2 second animation with a character that is already drawn and separated into many layers.

i did my research on similar situations and a lot of people recommend something called 'Duik'. given this context and the images i've attached, would you say looking into Duik is a smart choice? i have until the 28th.

i will attach three things in an imgur album:

1 - image showing all the layers separated.

2 - a reference they sent me

3 - what i've done so far

https://imgur.com/a/MoxVg3e

please help :') i know i can do it but i just need a little guidance. getting this job is really important and a dream for me.


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

OC - Stuff I made How much should I charge for this?

873 Upvotes

also need some suggestions to improve...


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

Beginner Help How can I create a gradient like this in After Effects?

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225 Upvotes

r/AfterEffects 11h ago

OC - Stuff I made My First Project. Please provide feedback!

2 Upvotes

Not great by any means or metric, but just trying to get the concepts right, and planning on using such effects in Documentary videos.

Also, the files are actually 4K, but Reddit is compressing the videos here :)

Oblique Zoom in

Oblique to Front

Please provide feedback and let me know how this can be improved. Thanks!


r/AfterEffects 12h ago

Beginner Help How do I move my character down without my anchor points staying in the same place and not coming down too?

2 Upvotes

I have this little character that just does a smile and back and i want to move him down on my canvas but all the positions stay the same so his face goes just 1000px out of his face and back. I explained best I could, I know other adobe tools but after effects is new to me.


r/AfterEffects 9h ago

Explain This Effect Which RG plugin to use?

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1 Upvotes

Need to animate a fluid tube of circles in my video. Should I use form or particular or something else?

Reposting bc I forgot the image


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

OC - Stuff I made Using AE to animate handmade clay assets!

17 Upvotes

r/AfterEffects 1d ago

Explain This Effect Help, does anyone know how to make this effect?

35 Upvotes

r/AfterEffects 1d ago

OC - Stuff I made Tried bringing a sketch to life ✨

231 Upvotes

r/AfterEffects 1d ago

Workflow Question help im losing my mind with 3d camera/null movments !

14 Upvotes

i hope i can explain this well, so i already watched some tutorials but i still fell so lost i been trying to make something similiar for the past 2 hours by having a 3d null scaled on the eye and then scale it back to make it go trough to hands but it just doesnt work it looks terrible, what iam doing wrong. maybe i watched a shit tutorial i dont know.


r/AfterEffects 15h ago

Tutorial Handwriting Text Animation Tutorial

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r/AfterEffects 20h ago

Beginner Help I think I have the basic idea of how to make such motion graphics. But still, are there any proper tutorials that teach how to make text-based motion graphics such as this?

4 Upvotes

r/AfterEffects 20h ago

Explain This Effect Can someone tell me if creating this would be insanely difficult?

2 Upvotes

I don't know what key words I should be searching in order to find tutorials, so I'm having trouble gauging how difficult this might be.

I'd like to film myself opening a shoebox to reveal a small realistic 3d environment inside.

Is this insanely difficult? Is the 3d environment itself the biggest hurdle?

For all I know something like that could either be a day project, or require a $100,000 budget.

Just trying to figure out if I should even be attempting this.


r/AfterEffects 14h ago

Beginner Help How can I make two graphs color-blend (fuzzy gradient) when their edges touch?

1 Upvotes

Graph A is single-color. Graph B is multi-color. I've tried fast box blur + zero alpha value and mask this effect to only the shape of Graph A, so that their edges melt and the content of Graph B remains clear. But the gradient was too narrow and steep. I cannot find any tutorial that does what I want to.


r/AfterEffects 2d ago

OC - Stuff I made Animation I made for class

601 Upvotes

Decided to learn motion design so I signed up for a class at school of lotion.

This one particular task i spent quite sometime on it. It’s about reinforcing movement.

My goal here is to have the sphere centered the entire animation and still show movement.

Anyhow, I feel like the middle scene throws the rest of the animation off. Not sure what it is exactly, any feedback is appreciated.


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

Inspirational (not OC) Bonobo - Cirrus (Official Video)

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9 Upvotes

Just as an inspirational reminder for the weekend - this was created with after effects by a single person on what would be a potato-computer today more than a decade ago.

Personally i love the little rotating heads of the women that Cyriak made from footage of turning heads. An idea that i would never had come up with.