Free Video Tutorials for Adobe After Effects

Aetuts+ is a site made to house and showcase some of the best After Effects tutorials around. We publish tutorials that not only produce great effects, but explain them in a friendly, approachable manner. We also stock up links to tutorials, articles, presets and plugins from around the web to help you get the most out of After Effects.

45. Create a Sound Reacting 3D Waveform Animation without 3rd Party Plugins
Satya has done it again. He’s managed to re-wire and re-invent tools that we’ve had for a long time to create what would normally only be possible with third party plugins. For all of you that ask for tutorials that only use built-in plugins, this one is for you. Satya has even created a free preset so you don’t have to re-create the effect from scratch every time.

Author: Satya Meka
Satya Meka is a 19yrs old aspiring motion designer who is willing to work with interesting people. He believes Math and Art are related to each other and he is passionate about moving things.

46. Create a “Bullet Time” Logo Shatter Effect
Wikipedia defines Bullet Time as a digitally enhanced simulation of variable speed (i.e. slow motion, time-lapse…) photography used in films, broadcast advertisements and computer games. It is characterized both by its extreme transformation of time (slow enough to show normally imperceptible and un-filmable events, such as flying bullets) and space (by way of the ability of the camera angle—the audience’s point-of-view—to move around the scene at a normal speed while events are slowed). The first movie credited with this effect is Blade, but it was the Matrix that really made it famous.
In this tutorial, Wes shows us how to use the built-in Shatter plugin to achieve “Bullet Time” with type or a logo.

Author: Wes Kandel
Wes is a dedicated husband, father and motion designer. His dad was an accountant. His mom was an interior designer. He loves all things design as well. He is currently based in Orlando, FL. He is Swedish.

47. Dunk Your Logo in a Wave World
Adam brings back his charm in this tutorial that is all about the rarely used Wave World plugin. You will learn all the ins and outs about this plugin that can even do 3D!

Author: Adam Everett Miller
Originally from MN, Adam moved to VA in 2004 to go to Liberty University. While there he met some rocking friends, had some fun and learned a lot. He worked for the school for a while helping with their promo videos and now is the Video Director of Hello Marketing in Lynchburg, VA.

48. Create a Stormy, Electric Type Reveal
This tutorial gives a different twist on how to use the powerful form plugin. Learn how to use it to create a mysterious and electric type reveal.

Author: Markus Gustafsson
Visit my portfolio at NinjaEffects.com.

49. Give Your Type Some Ball Action
We get a lot of requests for tutorials that don’t require 3rd party plugins, and since we like to make our readers happy whenever possible, Adam is back breaking down the rarely used “CC Ball Action” built-in plugin to make some very cool type transitions.

Author: Adam Everett Miller
Originally from MN, Adam moved to VA in 2004 to go to Liberty University. While there he met some rocking friends, had some fun and learned a lot. He worked for the school for a while helping with their promo videos and now is the Video Director of Hello Marketing in Lynchburg, VA.

50. Color Grade and Enhance a Horror Shot
Good horror isn’t about over the top effects. Its about using effects and colour correction to create a constant and un-nerving sense of fear, suspense and terror as part of an imaginative and horrifyingly well directed film. In this first part James will teach how to create 2 scenes. First how to take a shot of a mansion and give it an intense and scary look through sky replacement and colour correction. Second we will take a shot of a stone gargoyle face and create a subtle yet creepy effect in which it frowns evilly at an oncoming victim. Be afraid…be very afraid.

Author: James Twyman
I’m a 22 year old director, actor, stuntman, editor and special effects artist from Manchester England. I have an unbelievable passion for what i do and i strive to make the best possible films i can regardless of budget and resources (or lack there of). I use my qualification in hypnotherapy, and NLP to help drive the emotional impact of my work whilst letting the cinematography, visual effects and sound create the overall experience.

51. Make Form Cinematic
The secret to making motion graphics look sexy and less digital is to borrow some tips from the cinematic production world. Simon breaks down a bunch of tips including how to build your own light leaks and film scratches! The tricks learned in this tutorial can be applied to any motion graphics piece.

Author: Simon Bronson
Simon Bronson is an Australian freelance motion designer/editor currently working in London. If he’s not playing with trapcode form he’s probably taking photographs or eating crumpets….or both.

52. Create a Geometric Color Explosion
Wes Kandel is back to show us how to combine geometric shapes made in Illustrator and then imported and animated in After Effects to create his very cool Geometrika piece.

Author: Wes Kandel
Wes is a dedicated husband, father and motion designer. His dad was an accountant. His mom was an interior designer. He loves all things design as well. He is currently based in Orlando, FL. He is Swedish.

53. Create a 3D DNA Strain
We are very happy to welcome AE legend Maltaanon to the Aetuts+ family. Maltaanon kicks things off with this tutorial that makes very clever use of Trapcode’s Form plugin to create something that would normally require a 3D application, but is accomplished entirely within After Effects.

Author: Jerzy Drozda Jr (aka Maltaannon)
Jerzy Drozda Jr (aka Maltaannon) is a motion graphics and visual effects artist based in Warsaw, Poland. Well known in the motion graphics industry through his popular website maltaannon.com, Jerzy’s extreme creativity, razor sharp technical skills and relaxed teaching style, make him one of the top After Effects trainers in the world today.

54. Learn How to Create a Light Rays Custom Effect from Scratch
A custom effects is special kind of preset that looks and behaves like a plugin. It allows you to save a special recipe of plugins and keyframes into something that you can reuse with ease. Jorrit Schulte has been producing a bunch of these very useful custom effects and providing them for free at aenhancers.com. In this tutorial he breaks down how to create the incredibly popular light rays effect and how to package it all into a custom effect.

We’re going to break down how you create a light ray effect, like shine, and then we’re gonna learn how to create a preset so you can use it again any time you like inside of the preset. Finally we are going to make that preset into a custom effect using a script from nabscripts.com.

Author: Jorrit Schulte
Jorrit is a Guy that loves messing around in after effects and such.

55. Create Whispy Spirit-like Text
Adam keeps digging through the good ol’ built in CC plugins and continues to come up with very clever and visually awesome solutions. In this tutorial Adam uses CC Smear as the basis to create text that appears in as if a spirit whisped into it.

Author: Adam Everett Miller
Originally from MN, Adam moved to VA in 2004 to go to Liberty University. While there he met some rocking friends, had some fun and learned a lot. He worked for the school for a while helping with their promo videos and now is the Video Director of Hello Marketing in Lynchburg, VA.

56. Create a Split-Flap Type Display
Split-Flap-What? It’s the term used for displays that are found in train stations and airports, where they typically display departure and/or arrival information and do that cool flipping of letters to display the new information.

This tutorial does not show how to create the effect from scratch but instead it is a tutorial to explain how to use the project file created by Mattias Peresini who runs the totally awesome mattrunks website which has incredible tutorials for After Effects in French. We are very happy to have Mattias doing his first English tutorial for us here at Aetuts+.

Author: Mattias Peresini
If like me you have eyes that shine when you say motion design, I might just agree. You will find regularly on my blog tickets to the world of animation and graphics. I also advise you to watch my video tutorials on After Effects, for learning to achieve the demo reel effects that make us dream.

57. Create A Surprising Billowing Cloth Reveal
It’s amazing how much pseudo-3D you can do in After Effects today. This tutorial will focus on using a new plugin that brings 3D bicubic deformations to layers that allows you to truly bend and twist layers in 3D space. If you are familiar with 3D packages, this is true displacement as opposed to just bump mapping.

Author: Lloyd
I am the editor of Aetuts+. I also run AESCRIPTS.com which provides useful scripts for Adobe After Effects. You can follow me on Twitter @aescripts

58. Create a Sci-Fi Movie Title Sequence
This tutorial covers the creation of a space-like si-fi title sequence from scratch. Michael shows us how you can easily create a visually interesting and impressive title animation with some simple title cards and text animation. The tutorial uses the Twitch plugin from Video Copilot, though a similar effect could be obtained by manual keyframing.

Author: Michael Park
Michael Park is a motion graphics artist and (aspiring) film-maker based in Glasgow, Scotland. He has just graduated with a Computing Science degree but doesn’t plan on using it. He’s always looking for freelance work.

59. Create an Underwater Scene
We try to provide tutorials for users at all levels of After Effects. In this tutorial you will learn some good fundamentals on how to create a type reveal with an interesting background and environment. You will learn how to use all built-in tools and plugins to create a faux underwater scene complete with a bubbly type reveal. Simple.

Author: Eddie Bogdanov

I’m 20year old aspiring motion graphics designer, digital artist and filmmaker. I have gained my knowledge on my own but in the future I plan to apply to film school. I love moving things and that’s what makes me stick to what I do. I come from Latvia and I love my country. Doing visual effects since after effects version 6.

60. War! Or How to Create a 3D Particle Generated Video Display
Wes comes back with another adrenalin fueled piece that is sure to become an Aetuts+ favorite. Using Trapcode Form as the basis to display video, he shows how to use the audio reactors built in to form to achieve something very very cool.

Author: Wes Kandel
Wes is a dedicated husband, father and motion designer. His dad was an accountant. His mom was an interior designer. He loves all things design as well. He is currently based in Orlando, FL. He is Swedish.

61. Create an Elegant Concentric Rings Animation
Inspired by the work of Mark Coleran. Satya shows us how to use iterations of simple shape layers to create some beautiful procedural art.

Author: Satya Meka
I am an aspiring Motion Designer influenced by Generative Art. I am always willing to work with interesting people and you can follow me on twitter @gutsblow.

62. Heads Up on Some Cool Graphic Type Techniques
In this tutorial, regular Aetuts+ author Markus Gustafsson shows us how to use adjustment layers and expressions to create some edgy graphic design.

Author: Markus Gustafsson
Visit my portfolio at NinjaEffects.com.

63. Create a Burning Building VFX Shot
Starting with nothing more than a few still photographs, learn how to create this dynamic burning building VFX shot.

Author: Eddie Bogdanov

I’m 20year old aspiring motion graphics designer, digital artist and filmmaker. I have gained my knowledge on my own but in the future I plan to apply to film school. I love moving things and that’s what makes me stick to what I do. I come from Latvia and I love my country. Doing visual effects since after effects version 6.

64. Create an Effect Inspired by the Bourne Ultimatum End Credits Sequence
In a very clever use of Trapcode Particular, this tutorial shows us how to create an effect that is inspired by the Bourne Ultimatum end credits sequence.

Author: Chaithanya Y
I am a Chemical Engineer from Hyderabad, India studying at BITS-Pilani Goa, interested in Designing, Motion Graphics, VFX and Composting. I am currently working as an intern at Pixelloid Animations. I am kind of newbie at this field with promising ideas. I love to experiment with various software and try to create something interesting. I am self taught using various tutorials on the net and my own experimentation.

65. Create a Radar Screen Logo Reveal
Using only built in plugins, learn how to create a radar screen which then reveals a logo. You will learn how to use 32-bit mode and few other tricks to simulate a real screen glow.

Author: Eddie Bogdanov

I’m 20year old aspiring motion graphics designer, digital artist and filmmaker. I have gained my knowledge on my own but in the future I plan to apply to film school. I love moving things and that’s what makes me stick to what I do. I come from Latvia and I love my country. Doing visual effects since after effects version 6.

66. Learn How to Rig and Animate a Character and Create your Own Odyssey Day 1
In this massive 2 part tutorial you will learn how to rig and animate a character using a combination of Illustrator, Photoshop and After Effects and create an incredible, cinematic odyssey piece.

Part 1 covers pre-production techniques, workflow overview and creating and rigging the character. It also covers creating the star field background and creating the eye close-up.

Author: Marcin Zeglinski
Marcin is a motion graphics artist and jack of all trades currently (though not for long) living in Orlando, FL.

67. Learn How to Rig and Animate a Character and Create your Own Odyssey Day 2
This is part 2 of this very comprehensive tutorial where you will learn how to rig and animate a character using a combination of Illustrator, Photoshop and After Effects and create an incredible, cinematic odyssey piece.

Part 2 breaks down the compositing techniques used in all the shots.

Author: Marcin Zeglinski
Marcin is a motion graphics artist and jack of all trades currently (though not for long) living in Orlando, FL.

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