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	Talid Al Khatib view bio Adobe After Effects Creating an Animated Volume Meter One of the most fun and useful things in Adobe After Effects, is linking the motion of your project components with music. In this tutorial from Talid Al Khatib, we'll create a ''volume meter'' that responds to your music. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Creating Powerful Motion with Simple Expressions in AE In this tutorial, Talid Al Khatib demonstrates that simple expressions can create powerful motions. In this case, we create a ''rose'' which could be used as a background or design element. Talid also points out that we often think that expressions only relate to the layer properties (scale, opacity, positon, anchor point and rotation) but actually, they can work great with effects too, in our tutorial, we applied expressions on two effects (grid and Hue/saturation). Tutorial back to top

	Trent Armstrong view bio Adobe After Effects Expressions Animating Text Reflections with Expressions In this tutorial from Creative COW Contributing Editor Trent Armstrong, you'll see how to use Expressions to animate reflected light across text. You can get great results using only ingredients included free with AE, including track mattes and the AE Camera. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Making Light Disappear & Reappear Behind Objects Using Expressions Learn how to save time and money using Expressions to create an otherwise difficult effect: animating the visibility of a lens flare as it passes behind objects -- including ones that aren't completely opaque. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Expressions Swinging A Realistic Chain Creative COW member Trent Armstrong shows you expression features that apply all the way from After Effects 5 to today. He combines his experience as an average expressions user with tips and shortcuts for many core features that every AE user will be able to start using today. Tutorial back to top

	Doug Bassett view bio Adobe After Effects Expressions Without the Math Recently Doug Bassett was working on a promo and tried to follow Fred Lewis' connection scripts but couldn't follow the math. In this article, Doug demonstrates a new approach which uses expressions but without the math...and he finished the promo in a minimal amount of time. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Graphic Beds using Digital Anarchy's 3D Assistant There are many ways to create a graphic bed, but in this tutorial, Doug Bassett demonstrates a quick and easy method using 3D Assistant from Digital Anarchy. If you don't have the plugin, download the demo version Tutorial back to top

	Jeff Bellune view bio Adobe After Effects Igniting a Soccer Ball, part three In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Jeff Bellune demonstrates how to use the tools available in particleIllusion and After Effects to get a particle emitter source to track an element in a video clip. Part Three shows how to mask the emitter layer in an After Effects composition, so that the emitter appears to be placed properly in the scene relative to the other video elements. Tutorial, Video Tutorial particle Illusion Igniting a Soccer Ball, part two In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Jeff Bellune demonstrates how to use the tools available in particleIllusion and After Effects to get a particle emitter source to track an element in a video clip. Part Two concerns the animation of the emitter itself so that it accurately tracks the video element. Tutorial, Video Tutorial particle Illusion Igniting a Soccer Ball, part one In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Jeff Bellune demonstrates how to use the tools available in particleIllusion and After Effects to get a particle emitter source to track an element in a video clip. Part One details how to animate the Layer Offset in particleIllusion to eliminate motion in the clip that is caused by movement of the camera that filmed the scene. Tutorial, Video Tutorial back to top

	Roger Bolton view bio Apple Final Cut Pro Vee You: 8 Free Mac Plug-ins for FCP, AE and Motion VFX artist Roger Bolton has worked on films including The Lord of the Rings, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and Kingdom of Heaven. He has also created effects for his own use -- in this case, a wide variety of 2D and 3D VU meters, automatically animated by the audio in your project. He now offers these 8 plug-ins to artists using Final Cut Pro, After Effects and Motion -- with no watermarks, no time limits, no price tag. Please note: these plug-ins are MAC ONLY. Tutorial, Video Tutorial back to top

	Simon Bonner view bio Adobe After Effects Creating the Juno Opening Credits Look The independent film Juno featured one of the most distincitive opening credit sequences in recent memory. It has a wonderful handmade look - which it turned out was created by hand! Whether you have seen Juno or not, Cow leader Simon Bonner shows a much easier way to create unique, handcrafted looks, without the pain. Tutorial, Video Tutorial back to top

	Joe Chao view bio Adobe After Effects Using CC Filters and Displacement Maps to Create Fire In this tutorial, CreativeCOW Contributing Editor Joe Chao creates ethereal fire using some of the CC filters and displacement maps in After Effects. Tutorial Adobe After Effects How to make a Text Stream using Expressions In this tutorial CreativeCOW's Joe Chao demonstrates using expressions to create a text stream wrapping around a pillar. The pillar and its background are all completely made in AfterEffects. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Creating Paper Ribbons and Confetti Often for festivals and celebrations, we are asked to create animations involving colorful ribbons and confetti. In this tutorial, Joe Chao creates the ribbons and confetti and then demonstrates a couple of ways to shoot them out of a cannon. This animation would be useful, not just for Christmas, but for any festival. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Creating a Logo Assembling Animation Joe Chao was once required to create an animation in which a flock of fireflies assemble into an insect shaped logo. In this tutorial, Joe demonstrates a quick method to duplicate the effect using Trapcode Particlular. Tutorial Adobe After Effects How to make a Traditional Chinese Painting Effect In this tutorial for Adobe After Effects, Joe Chao (The English pronunciation that Cao Jun gives to his Western friends) gracefully gives to CreativeCow readers his easy-to-follow lessons on reproducing an ancient art technique, thousands of years old, and producing for today interesting and versatile special effects. Tutorial back to top

	Brendan Coots view bio Adobe After Effects Color Correction Techniques for Greenscreen Compositing This tutorial from Brendan Coots focuses on color correction techniques for greenscreen compositing, including the construction of artificial highlights to add an extra layer of realism to your shots. Tutorial back to top

	Tielman Dewaele view bio Adobe After Effects A Ring of Cows In this tutorial, CreativeCOW Contributing Editor Tielman Dewaele demonstrates a quick way to position layers into a ring, with null objects and animate them with another null. Tutorial back to top

	John Starr Dewar view bio Adobe After Effects How To Use Light Spill for Better Composites Without Plug-ins The key to a good composite is successful integration into the background image. Sometimes you may have a very bright background or be keying from a DV camera, which nearly always results in imperfections because of the choke or screen blur effects that are necessary to achieve good edges. Light wrap, or light spill, is a very handy in these situations. In this tutorial, John Starr Dewar demonstrates an easy way to achieve light spill with a little bit of pre-composing. Tutorial back to top

	Marek Doszla view bio Adobe After Effects Animating a Butterfly In this tutorial, Marek Doszla shows how to animate a butterfly in After Effects 5.5 starting from a digital picture. Marek puts it in the category of After Effects experiment, however he uses some sophisticated features of After Effects as 3D space, expressions and time remapping that could be useful to beginners or even advanced users in motion graphics. Tutorial back to top

	Jerzy Drozda Jr view bio Adobe After Effects Studying Shape Extruder After publishing his ShapeExtruder, Jerzy Drozda Jr (aka Maltaannon) got tons of emails asking for further explanation, so in this follow-up tutorial, Jerzy answers the most commonly asked questions. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Adobe After Effects CE Shape Extruder In this video tutorial, Jerzy Drozda Jr (aka Maltaannon) demonstrates how you can extrude any vector based layer to give it a real 3D look inside After Effects. Tutorial, Video Tutorial back to top

	Dan Ebberts view bio Adobe After Effects noise() The After Effects expression language has a seldom-used random number generator that is really quite a gem. Dan Ebberts says "seldom-used" because he doesn't believe he's ever seen it used in a single expression he's seen posted on the internet. It's not the easiest command to understand and the documentation is pretty sparse but once you get past that it's very cool Tutorial Adobe After Effects Expressions in Adobe After Effects 6 With After Effects 6.0, Adobe has introduced some wonderful new functionality to the world of expressions. Most of this is the result of spectacular new features that have been added to After Effects that were not necessarily aimed at expressions but nonetheless dramatically increase the power available to the expression writer. There have also been a few changes and enhancements to the expression language itself. Review, Tutorial Adobe After Effects Building the World's Greatest Cameraman With version 5.5 of After Effects, Adobe added the wonderful world of the powerful new Expression Controls. In this tutorial, Dan Ebberts looks at several different ways that expression controls can be useful in your projects. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Synchronizing Animation to Audio Using After Effects In after Effects 5.5, Adobe has added the capability for expressions to access keyframe and marker data. In this tutorial, Dan Ebberts will focus on how to use this new capability to synchronize an animation to an audio track using layer markers and expressions. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Generating Random Motion with AE 5.5's Expressions In this tutorial, Dan Ebberts demonstrates a method of generating motion that is random in both time and space and allows you to quickly assemble a composition with a pleasantly fluid, chaotic movement. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Animating a Walk-Cycle Using Loop Expressions With version 5.5 of After Effects, Adobe has included some new keyframe-looping expressions that can be very useful for cyclic animation and layer-looping. In this tutorial, Dan Ebberts walks us through the basics of how to set up and use these expressions and then we'll use one to loop a walk-cycle as you might do in a simple character animation. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Parenting and Expressions Dan Ebberts demonstrates setting up an animation of a piston, crank, and wheel using parenting and expressions so that we only have to keyframe one of the pieces and the others follow along. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Building Your Own 3D Particle Generator In this tutorial, Dan Ebberts demonstrates a method of generating motion that is random in both time and space and allows you to quickly assemble a composition with a pleasantly fluid, chaotic movement. Tutorial back to top

	Emanuel Eriksson view bio Adobe After Effects Text that Blows away like Sand In this tutorial, Emanuel Eriksson uses masks and Particle Playground in After Effects to demonstrate how to blow a text, or any object for that matter, off the screen as if it was made up by small grains of sand. Tutorial back to top

	Fang Xiang view bio Adobe After Effects Using Motion Sketch to build a Spiral Path in 3D Space In this article, Fang Xiang demonstrates using motion sketch and an expression to build a spiral path in 3D space. Tutorial back to top

	John Fischer view bio Adobe After Effects John Fischer demonstrates Building a 3D Grid/Video Screen in After Effects John Fischer created a much more in-depth version of a combination of tutorials done by www.ayatoweb.com in response to several inquiries in the AE forum at Creativecow. This is a fairly time-intensive tutorial, but the end results are worth it! When you're done you should know much more about track mattes, and some basic 3D camera moves. Hopefully, it will also give you some new ideas to play around with. Enjoy! Tutorial back to top

	Jim Geduldick view bio Adobe After Effects Using the AE CS3 Puppet Tool with Motion Particles In this article, Toolfarm's Jim Geduldick talks about his workflow for using Apple Motion's particles with the AE CS3's Puppet tool. Tutorial back to top

	Marcus Geduld view bio Adobe After Effects MAKING TEXT FLY When Marcus Gedult teaches After Effects, students often ask him if there's a way to make letters fly onto the screen from multiple directions and form a word. They want to avoid animating each letter on a separate layer and can you blame them? In this tutorial, Marcus demonstrates a couple of techniques that will do the job, one of which uses Path Text; the other uses Particle Playground. Tutorial back to top

	Rick Gerard view bio Adobe After Effects Expressing the Camera: Animating Along a Path Rick Gerard presents a five minute tutorial movie in which you'll learn how to simplify animating a camera over a still image and how to orient the camera along a path using expressions to gain compete complete control. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Adobe After Effects Animating a Camera: Tracking to a Null Object Rick Gerard presents a five minute tutorial movie, you'll learn how to simplify animating a camera over a still image and how to control where the camera is looking by tracking the movement of a null with a simple expression. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Adobe After Effects Using Projection Layers to create a gobos and projector type effects Rick Gerard explains the use of the Light Transmission property added to Layer Material Options in After Effects 5.5. Basic and advanced techniques demonstrate only a few creative possibilities opened up by this exciting new feature. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Understanding the use of square vs non-square pixels in AE Rick Gerard gives a glimpse of the inner workings of Adobe After Effects and explains exactly how AE mixes square and rectangular pixels. Youll never worry again about how to interpret footage. DV, HD, Wide Screen and Film comps will be a walk in the park. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Faking An Iris: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sphere! Rick Gerard explores some methods of simulating a camera lens. In this tutorial, Rick uses the Boris Sphere Plug-In for After Effects. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Animating the Universal Cow After Effects 5 has some powerful 3D compositing features and some new tools that make complicated animations a snap. In this tutorial we will use parenting, expressions and Boris 3D text to recreate the Universal movie opening (sort' a). A new way of thinking about layers in AE is required. It's easy to grasp once you stand back from the project a little. Let's proceed. Tutorial back to top

	Serge Hamad view bio Zaxwerks Understanding Custom Edges In this tutorial, Creative Cow leader Serge Hamad demonstrates everything you need to know about creating a Custom Edge in Zaxwerks Invigorator and ProAnimator. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Adobe After Effects Creating a 3D Filmstrip or Flowing Ribbon In this quick tutorial, Serge Hamad uses Zaxwerks Invigorator to create a 3D Filmstrip. This method is also useful for creating those flying ribbons that are so popular in the commercials now. You'll need Invigorator classic for this. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Creating the Egg: Part 5 of the Golden COW by Serge Hamad Many of you have seen Serge Hamad's various animations in the After Effects forum at CreativeCOW. In this 5-part tutorial, Serge demonstrates the steps involved in re-creating his "Golden COW." In this tutorial you will be creating the egg. This is the final step in this animation. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Building the Cage: Part 4 of the Golden COW by Serge Hamad Many of you have seen Serge Hamad's various animations in the After Effects forum at CreativeCOW. In this 5-part tutorial, Serge demonstrates the steps involved in re-creating his "Golden COW." In this tutorial you will be creating the cage around the planet. You will need 3D Stroke from Trapcode as well as Invigorator Pro or Classic for this one. Note that with Invigorator Classic you won't be able to open the provided AEP though. The emphasis in this tutorial is on the use of the transparency mapping technique. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Creating Shockwaves: Part Three of the Golden COW by Serge Hamad Many of you have seen Serge Hamad's various animations in the After Effects forum at CreativeCOW. In this 5-part tutorial, Serge demonstrates the steps involved in re-creating his "Golden COW." In part two, we create the Aura and the Planet. You'll need Image Lounge and Knoll's Light Factory from Red Giant Software and Zaxwerk's Invigorator. If you don't have these plug-ins, download the demos to follow along. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Creating Planets & Auras: Part Two of the Golden COW by Serge Hamad Many of you have seen Serge Hamads various animations in the After Effects forum at CreativeCOW. In this 5-part tutorial, Serge demonstrates the steps involved in re-creating his Golden COW. In part two, we create the Aura and the Planet. Youll need Image Lounge and Knolls Light Factory from Red Giant Software and Zaxwerks Invigorator. If you dont have these plug-ins, download the demos to follow along. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Creating a Nebula: Part One of the Golden COW by Serge Hamad Many of you have seen Serge Hamad's various animations in the After Effects forum at CreativeCOW. In this 5-part tutorial, Serge demonstrates the steps invoved in re-creating his "Golden COW." In part one, we create the nebula. You'll need Image Lounge from Red Giant Software. If you don't have it, download the demo. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Layer Mapping in Invigorator Serge Hamad demonstrates the technique of layer mapping in Zaxwerks Invigorator. This tutorial assumes that you have some previous exposure to the plug-in. If you don't have the plug-in, download the demo so that you can follow along. Serge uses the Pro Version, but you can accomplish the technique with the Classic Version as well. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Animating with the Parenting Features in AE 5.5 An easy way to make any number of layers follow the movements of a single layer is to use the Parenting feature in After Effects 5.5. In this article, Serge Hamad demonstrates the power of parenting in some of the different situations you may encounter in your production studio instead of the usual robotic animation exercises that you may have seen elsewhere. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Using Post Render Actions to Pre-render elements and create proxies in AE 5.5 One of the best ways of speeding your work in AE is to use low- resolutions proxies to substitute your original footage. This will increase the speed while previewing or rendering your work tremendously, especially if you are working with 3D. A proxy can be a lower resolution still or movie and you can replace it by the original footage at any time just by clicking on the respective proxy button on your footage window. In this article, Serge Hamad explains the procedure while creating a 3d ride through a corridor. Tutorial Zaxwerks Creating Lord of the COW Ring with Zaxwerk's Invigorator Serge Hamad uses Zaxwerks Invigorator to create 'Lord of the COW Ring' in response to a question in the Zaxwerks COW. Everyone wanted to know how to recreate the ring in that much talked about movie, 'Lord of the Ring. Tutorial back to top

	Alan Hamill view bio Adobe After Effects Smoke Effect Alan Hamill demonstrates the use of Particle Playground to simulate rising smoke. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Creating an Invisible Man Alan Hamill demonstrates using some keying techniques and the Displacement Map Effect to simulate a transparent, yet textured dancing man. You'll need the Production Bundle for this one. Tutorial back to top

	Jayse Hansen view bio Adobe After Effects Growing Design Elements in After Effects In this video tutorial, Jayse Hansen demonstrates how to create graphic elements that will grow in After Effects. This question comes up in the forums all the time. Now we have a step by step tutorial. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Adobe After Effects Creating Surreal Clouds without Plug-ins In this tutorial, Jayse will show you another way of creating moving clouds using Adobe After Effects 5 without needing extra plug-ins. If you are unfamiliar with simple 3d in After Effects 5, you may want to read the After Effects 5.0 manual before continuing with this tutorial. Tutorial Adobe After Effects 3D Schematic Grid -- from Illustrator to After Effects In this tutorial, Jayse will show you how to take Illustrator artwork and import it into After Effects 5. For the final touches, he will show you how to use DigiEffects Schematic Grid to enhance transparent 'scoreboard' screen. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Shine Video Wall in AE 5 In this tutorial, Jayse will show you how to use some of the cool new 3D features of After Effects 5 as well as using the new plug-in called Shine to liven up the scene. Tutorial back to top

	Philip Hodgetts view bio Adobe After Effects Displacement Mapping in After Effects Two of the less well known features of After Effects Production Bundle are the Time Displacement Filter and the Displacement Filter. Both use the values of one image to affect the target image. In this tutorial, Philip Hodgetts first looks at the affect of the Displacement Filter first, then moves on to Time Displacement before discussing a source of gradient images suitable for Displacement and Time Displacement Mapping. Tutorial back to top

	Karl Holt view bio Adobe After Effects SynthEyes 3-D Camera Tracker If your are unfamiliar with 3D camera tracking software, SynthEyes 3-D Camera Tracker is a tool which will analyze moving 2D video footage by tracking points of reference frame by frame. From this, it can reproduce an accurate 3D camera which matches the properties and movement of the real-world camera you used to shoot the sequence. In this review/tutorial, Karl Holt gives us an indepth look along with a lot of tips for using the software. Review, Tutorial back to top

	Joel Hooton view bio Adobe After Effects Synchronizing Video to Audio with Layer Markers and Expression Sets A while back, Dan Ebberts made an article talking about synchronizing animation to audio using layer markers. It was really cool and easy to setup. Make a comp add the expression to an attribute and just click away on the * key on the num pad to sync video to audio. In this article, Joel Hooton wanted to see how many different useful sets of expressions he could develop that make use of this great feature. We'll also see how they are used together to make more complex outputs. Tutorial back to top

	John David Hutton view bio Adobe After Effects After Effects and the VTFS System from dps Velocity The Virtual Tape File System in Leitch dpsVelocity is the most fascinating design and John David's most favorite feature of the software. With the VTFS you can actually take an existing image sequence (targa, tif, others are supported) and bring it into your editing NLE without having to render it to a proprietary format first. You can also take a captured clip and copy the image sequence of that capture to another computer without ever exporting anything in the NLE first! In this tutorial, Creativecow.net leader, John David Hutton demonstrates how to use After Effects with the VFTS System. Tutorial back to top

	Colin James view bio Adobe After Effects Creating a Glassy Look using Adobe After Effects In this tutorial, Colin James demonstrates creating something with glass planes that refract & blur footage behind them ~ much like the opening to the show, CSI:Miami. Colin needed this technique for work, asked the question in the AE COW, and this is what the members came up. Tutorial back to top

	Graham Jones view bio Adobe After Effects Using After Effects 7 on Intel MacPro Computers Creative Cow member Graham Jones was the very first guy we have found who came up with a successful way that works for most users who want to use After Effects 7 on the new Intel-based MacPro computers. While it is not guaranteed to work for everyone, if you have been wanting to use AE7 on a MacPro, Graham gives you his recipe. Tutorial back to top

	Roland R. Kahlenberg view bio Adobe After Effects Creating Footage with Shatter and Particle Playground In this tutorial, Roland R. Kahlenberg, CreativeCOW's resident Particle Playground expert, shows off the versatility of Particle Playground and Shatter to create a Shattering World Effect. He demonstrates how you can create a little ooomph and wow factor just by using what is already in After Effects. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Two or Three Color Special Effect We've all seen the scene in which everything is black and white except one color, but what if you wanted to have a two or even a three-color special effect? Well, this tutorial from Roland Kahlenberg, which we'll call Coolsville, will show you the way. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Fun in Particle Playground Land Roland R. Kahlenberg, CreativeCOW's resident Particle Playground expert, shows off the versatility of Particle Playground by creating a game that incorporates collision detection against a customized grid. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Creating an Audio LED Meter In this Tutorial, Roland Kahlenberg demonstrates creating an 'as real as you want it to be' audio LED meter using Motion Math and Expressions. At the bottom of the page is a sample of its use in Roland's demo reel -- just to give you a 'real world' example. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Adding Z-Depth to your Logo Using AE5 PB Ever wanted to extrude a logo in After Effects but on a tight budget and always looking to tinker about? Read on as Roland Kahlenberg demonstrates a cool way to introduce some z-depth to our objects in AE 5.0 Production Bundle. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Expressions in After Effects: Animating without Keyframes As many of you know by now, AE 5.0 has introduced a new feature called Expressions. Experienced users akin it to Motion Math, although they are quite different. In this tutorial, Roland Kahlenberg, who is a non-programmer, intends to show other similarly inclined users of AE 5.0 that Expressions do offer quite a bit to the toolset of the conventional designer. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Particle Playground: Experimenting with the COW Roland Kahlenberg demonstrates a small bit of what Particle Playground can do. You should experiment further once you've come to grips with the mechanics involved. You need the production bundle of After Effects for this one. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Rork-n-scroll: A Guide to Scrolling Titles with Path Text As part of our Motion Graphics repertoire, we're occasionally requested to perform the traditional right-to-left and bottom-to-top text scrolls. Suffice it to say that it is one of the more frequent client-requests. In this tutorial, Roland Kahlenberg explores a method to add some variation to the conventional look of a scroll while still maintaining a high level of legibility. Tutorial back to top

	Timothy Kurkoski view bio Adobe After Effects Turning Paint Into Masks in After Effects Paint strokes and masks in After Effects are both forms of vector paths, but converting one into the other isn't always straightfoward. This tutorial shows how to take strokes from the Vector Paint effect, as well as AE 6's new Paint tools, and turn them into masks. Tutorial back to top

	David Langley view bio Adobe After Effects Creating 3D Ribbon Text In this tutorial Dave Langley demonstrates how to create a 3D ribbon of text that flows smoothly around curves up and down slopes moving around and interacting with other elements using only core tools in After Effects. Tutorial back to top

	Dave LaRonde view bio Adobe After Effects AE 5.5: Masks, Transfer Modes, Track Mattes, Time Remapping Dave LaRonde shares his experiences with upgrading from AE 3.1 to AE 5.5, and the production bundle no less. What would he do first? He gave himself an assignment: A fictional client arrives with a starfield and two animations, both movies of a planet and a moon rotating on their axes. My task: the moon must revolve around the planet, and it must look CONVINCING, as if it were a time lapse from the Hubble Space Telescope. Armed only with the manual, he demonstrates both the old and the new: Masks, Transfer Modes, Track Mattes, Time Remapping for a little bit of fun, and as it turns out Expressions! Tutorial Adobe After Effects Fun With Track Mattes: Learning to use track mattes can be a valuable weapon in your After Effects arsenal They're extremely versatile, and knowing how to use them can save you the time and expense of researching and buying yet another plug-in. A Creative Cow visitor wrote, 'I want to do a grid of small boxes that dissolve one row at a time, from bottom to top. What would be the fastest way to it?' A perfect opportunity to use track mattes! In this article, Dave LaRonde demonstrates the technique step by step. Tutorial back to top

	Carl Larsen view bio Adobe After Effects Building a Cube World: Part 4 In this tutorial, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Carl Larsen shows you how to track a lens flare onto a 360 degree camera-aware environment using Trapcode Horizon. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Adobe After Effects Building a Cube World: Part 3 In this tutorial, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Carl Larsen shows you how to track a lens flare onto the surface of a 360 degree camera-aware environment without the use of a third-party plug-in. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Adobe After Effects Building a Cube World: Part 2 In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Carl Larsen shows you how to build a title sequence within the 360 degree environment created in part one of this tutorial series. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Adobe After Effects Building a Cube World: Part 1 In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Carl Larsen shows you how to create a 360 degree camera-aware environment in After Effects without the use of third-party plug-ins. Tutorial, Video Tutorial back to top

	James Lee view bio Adobe After Effects Building Up Particles This tutorial by animator James Lee demonstrates a building up of particles to simulate a disintegrating hot air balloon using Trapcode Particular and Adobe After Effects. Tutorial back to top

	Kathlyn Lindeboom view bio Adobe After Effects Cool Moves With The Wiggler Kathlyn Lindeboom gives users a look at some of the tools in Cult Effects 1.5. This second tutorial in a series uses Cult Effects CE Paint along with 1.5's new 'Wiggle' Controls. In this tutorial, we'll animate the Displacement Variation in the Wiggle Control in order to make the strokes dance into place. Cult Effects Paint is the Vector Paint in Adobe After Effects 5. Tutorial Adobe After Effects AE's CE Vector Paint: Wiggle Controls Kathlyn Lindeboom takes a look at some of the tools in Cult Effects 1.5. This tutorial uses Cult Effects CE Paint along with 'Wiggle' Controls and the CE Checker filter. CE Paint is the new Vector Paint in Adobe After Effects 5.0 Pro Bundle. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Confetti: Making it with Cult Effects Paint or AE5's Vector Paint Kathlyn Lindeboom gives users a look at some of the tools in Cult Effects 1.5. This third tutorial in a series uses Cult Effects CE Paint along with 1.5's new 'Wiggle' Controls. In this tutorial, we'll make confetti. Cult Effects Paint is the Vector Paint in Adobe After Effects 5. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Flags: blowing in the wind The illusion of making a flag blow in the wind tends to be popular all the time. Here Kathlyn Lindeboom provides a quick tutorial on how to make this happen easily in After Effects using Forge FreeForm 2. The result is pretty cool and quite realistic as you'll see for yourself. Tutorial back to top