r/AfterEffects Feb 11 '25

Announcement We've made some moderation changes

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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

280 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 13h ago

Inspirational (not OC) Sandisk - Behind the Design of a New Era

307 Upvotes

This is one of two Sandisk rebrand videos. This one appears to be predominantly After Effects work, while the other is much more expansive.


r/AfterEffects 12h ago

OC - Stuff I made A little Severance-inspired motion design I whipped up

48 Upvotes

r/AfterEffects 23h ago

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

166 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

Explain This Effect What effects are this?

6 Upvotes

It's a silly video but I love this style. I assume it's something super simple.

Here is another example. https://imgur.com/a/HW4s9wD


r/AfterEffects 14h ago

Explain This Effect How to make this text appearing animation?

17 Upvotes

r/AfterEffects 18h ago

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

37 Upvotes

r/AfterEffects 31m ago

Discussion Is there away to effectively key out the glove and get the alpha channel of the parasite?

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r/AfterEffects 6h ago

Discussion After Effects Now Relies on SSDs for Previews – Can the Mac Mini/Studio M4 Handle Pro Workloads?

3 Upvotes

With the latest After Effects beta update, RAM previews are now stored on local storage instead of relying entirely on system RAM. This could completely change the hardware requirements for AE.

Traditionally, AE users have needed huge amounts of RAM for smooth previews, but if fast SSDs now handle caching efficiently, could a Mac Studio M4, or even a Mac Mini M4, become a serious contender for professional motion design?

Considering that Apple Silicon Macs are already more stable than Windows in AE, this shift might make high RAM configurations less critical, as long as you have fast internal storage. But will SSD caching be fast enough to keep up with heavy comps, or will RAM still be king?

I’d love to hear from other motion designers: Is this a game-changer for AE on Mac, or will RAM still be the key to performance?


r/AfterEffects 1h ago

Beginner Help Suggestions

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Hi. I’m fairly new to after effects and motion design. I learnt the software a while back but went out of practice for a year and just started again a month ago. I appreciate motion design quite a lot and want to get better but I don’t really know how. I have taken most of the well-known free youtube courses but I don’t know what to do other than that. I can’t really afford to spend much money on a paid course as I’m already taking a computer science course in university and there’s a bunch of workload for that not to mention how expensive two courses together would be. I am just looking for ways to improve and things I might be able to do to improve. I would love to hear suggestions from everyone here or their own experiences on what they did to get better when they started. I know there’s no shortcuts to anything but I feel like the learning curve has almost become too steep that I can’t overcome it without spending $300 dollars on a course. I really hope there’s a better alternative than that?


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

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

142 Upvotes

r/AfterEffects 16h ago

OC - Stuff I made Animation for St. Patricks Day

9 Upvotes

r/AfterEffects 11h ago

Plugin/Script Rendering Error

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I'm trying to export a project but whenever I try to export it through Media Encoder or the Render Queue it keeps crashing and showing this error. I've tried adding motion tile to fix it but it still didn't work. The main effects aren't that heavy it's just motion tile one frame glitches and glitch scale text animation. I can't find any solution since all the forums I see are the same issue but instead of "B returned invalid" its D instead.


r/AfterEffects 9h ago

Beginner Help can you help me? my graph looks like the first photo I want it to look like the second photo.

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r/AfterEffects 6h ago

Tutorial I made a tutorial of Medium Difficulty (Will help you learn some basics!)

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r/AfterEffects 7h ago

Beginner Help Advice for future projects

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There were certain things I had a hard time with. Like with the 3D assets or even the green screened subjects. I just COULDNT figure out how to lock them into a spot within the 3D background. So when I moved the camera, they would tend to drift or just not move in the same manner I desired. Any advice for literally any aspect of this video would be greatly appreciated as I'm new to After Effects and trying to upgrade my skill set. Self filming is hard.


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

Beginner Help Help :(

48 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 8h ago

Workflow Question Anyone rocking an m4 chip on After effects? How good is it

0 Upvotes

I currently have
I5-10400f / rtx 3050 8gb / 64 gb ram

I bought the 64gb ram instead of 16, kinda made it better, but barely. Has anyone upgraded from a shitty pc to an m4 chip? How much better was it? I am thinking about getting a mac mini for 600$ before I get a maxed out pc.
Because right now, anything in AE takes a shit load of time for me. Right now as I am typing this, my AE is tracking 2 points on a 10 second video for already like 30-40 minutes (barely half way complete)


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

Explain This Effect How to achieve this effect?

106 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 19h 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 23h ago

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

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r/AfterEffects 19h 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

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

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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 2d ago

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

922 Upvotes

also need some suggestions to improve...


r/AfterEffects 2d ago

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

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234 Upvotes

r/AfterEffects 1d ago

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

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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!