In this tutorial, we’re going to be covering how you can achieve a nice ‘glitchy twitch’ effect within After Effects without any 3rd party plugins or scripts. We will only be using the built in tools in After Effects as well as a few basic…
Glitchy and Twitchy
Aside from lens flares, we’ve all probably tried creating the mograph abstract ‘glitchy’ or ‘twitchy’ effect, whether it’s for your abstract blob render from Cinema 4D or your sci-fi trailer. Whatever the reason is, there are plenty of awesome tools out there to help you…
Breathe Life Back Into After Effects Lens Flares
The default Lens Flare effect in After Effects looks hideous, outdated, and very basic. Today, we’re going to be taking a look at how we can breathe some life back into the default Lens Flare and how we can enhance it by adding more to…
Revival of the Reviving After Effects Lens Flare
Knoll Light Factory and Optical Flares are great plugins to create stunning and amazing lens flares, but only if you can afford it. For those who are amateurs and don’t necessarily want to shell out some extra cash for lens flares or you’re hesitant because…
Create Semi Realistic Flames with AE’s Built In Tools
Today, we dive into After Effects and take a look at how we can create some amazing looking flames without any 3rd party plugins. Although we aren’t trying to create 100% realistic flames, with some color correction and tweaking, you could pull it off as…
Flames with After Effects’ Built In Tools
So I was going through VideoHive and looking at some past ‘top sellers’ and noticed a few projects with flame elements. Yes, people have done some fantastic flame simulations with Trapcode Particular and Trapcode Form, but how would you achieve a flame simulation without any…
VideoCopilot’s Element Plugin Sneak Peak
If you haven’t heard of VideoCopilot’s new Element plugin, you’re missing out! Element is a new particle system plugin developed by the VideoCopilot team and they just recently released a sneak peak video! The features are absolutely stunning with material options, HDRI support, reflections and…
4 Free Exclusive Project Files
Thank you all for helping me reach 1000+ subscribers. This is my way to give thanks to everyone for subscribing, viewing, and commenting! These are some 4 basic intro animations I made, no plugins required. I pre-rendered everything so those who don’t have the Trapcode…
