Blog posts filed under After Effects

Whether you're drawing a line between two points, underlining some text, or creating a simple lightsaber effect, knowing how to animate a line in After Effects is one of the basic skills you need in your motion design toolbox.

After Effects Scripts are incredibly useful tools that extend the functionality of After Effects in some way, usually saving the user time and effort when performing particular tasks.

A great motion design proposal can make all the difference when landing new clients. A well crafted proposal, or motion design project plan, is your first real opportunity to impress your client and showcase your vision for their project.

At the start of any new motion design project it’s vital to establish both what the client wants to get across in the animation, and the overall scope of the work you’ll be doing.

A common question that gets asked is: What is After Effects used for?

After Effects templates get a bit of a bad rep in the motion design world, there's a view that it's perhaps cheating to use them, however in some instances they can really help save time and money for both yourself and your clients.

It's almost a right of passage for a motion designer to have a go at creating a glitch effect in After Effects at some point in their career.

In this tutorial I'm going to run through how to create a sci-fi UI or HUD in After Effects using our Chronos sci-fi UI template kit.