There’s been a lot of stir in the AE community lately about After Effects feature requests, probably due to Todd Kopriva’s recent article and Andrew Kramer’s latest blog post. While I’m not a hardcore AE professional like some, I thought I’d share some of my…
After Effects CS6 Video Tutorials & Resources Roundup (Updated)
So everyone is pretty stoked about the upcoming After Effects CS6 release, there are quite a few artists that had the amazing and lucky opportunity to test drive After Effects CS6 (one of those lucky people doesn’t include myself). With all the new great features, there has…
Kuler 5: Once Upon a Time
With so many of you guys requesting a new Kuler 5, I finally made the time to push out a new theme: Once Upon a Time. Remember, this contest is open for your creativity, you can do absolutely anything you want. Here are a few ideas…
Fotoshop by Adobe: It’s Time to Change
Photoshop, although a very powerful tool to enhance and bring life to your photos, really gets abused a lot now a days, especially in the media. Photoshop has gotten so abused that it is pretty much now a verb that one uses to describe what…
Kuler 5 Project
The Kuler 5 Project is a community project I want to start right here on CreativeDojo. Similar to the Five Second Projects by Nick Cambell & 99 Frames by David Drayton, the Kuler 5 Project is going to take a fun and creative community project to…
3D Space Environment, Sorta
So for the past few years, I’ve been addicted to making space-like environments for my animations. Troublesome as it was, I created nearly everything in After Effects, primarily with Trapcode Particular and Trapcode Form. I’ve always wondered how I could achieve a realistic nebula/vortex effect…
Wait, After Effects Isn’t A Video Editor?
Well in short, not really, it depends on how you define ‘video editor’. For the most part, people do not consider After Effects a video editor even though the literal meaning of video editor means ‘something that edits video’. “Video editing is the process of manipulating…
How to Use Displacement Maps and Create Heat Waves
In this tutorial, I answer some of the questions I got on the Displacement Map effect and how to use it. With the displacement map, you can create many different effects such as heat waves for a desert or flame. If you want to create…
