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  • Animating Shape Creation — After Effects

    Animating Shape Creation — After Effects

    In this tutorial, we animate a shape so it looks like it’s being designed in Illustrator. One "graceful" curve at a time, like a pen tool with performance anxiety. Perfect for slick logo builds, icon reveals, or tricking your audience into thinking this took way longer than it actually did.

  • Create Stroke From Text — After Effects

    Create Stroke From Text — After Effects

    In this tutorial, we turn text into shapes (because we like commitment), then animate the stroke using Trim Paths. So your words elegantly draw themselves on like they’re arriving at a fancy lettering party. Great for title reveals, logo builds, or impressing clients who think this stuff is actual witchcraft.

  • Simple Lower Thirds — After Effects

    Simple Lower Thirds — After Effects

    Welcome to the worst After Effects tutorial on the internet! This is my first-ever attempt at a tutorial, and I’ve spared no expense in making it sound like I’m recording inside a blender while my son auditions for a horror film in the background. In this chaotic masterpiece, you’ll get: Barely enough info to be dangerous in After Effects, Questionable un-actionable advice, and a vocal fry so deep it may open a portal to Adobe’s darkest secrets. Results may vary, side effects may include mild enlightenment or complete confusion. Subscribe for more? I mean… maybe wait and see.

  • Turbulent Displace — After Effects

    Turbulent Displace — After Effects

    In this tutorial, we bravely wrestle with Turbulent Displace. An After Effects effect that makes your footage look like it’s melting, vibrating, or possibly having a minor identity crisis. Perfect for when you want your graphics to scream “I’m artsy AND unstable!”

  • Wiggle Text — After Effects

    Wiggle Text — After Effects

    Learn how to make your text jitter like it just slammed three espressos. We’re using Turbulent Displace with Posterize Time, because sometimes After Effects just needs to have a controlled meltdown.

  • Golf Graphics — After Effects

    Golf Graphics — After Effects

    Learn how to make slick golf graphics in After Effects. Complete with maps, masks, and just enough easing to make it look like you meant to do it that way. Because nothing says “pro editor” like parenting layers and pretending you play golf.

  • Smooth Typewriter — After Effects

    Smooth Typewriter — After Effects

    In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to make text appear one letter at a time, like it’s being typed by a ghost with excellent kerning. It’s the typewriter effect. But smoother, classier, and with fewer existential questions than actually using a typewriter.

  • Grid Warp Transition — After Effects

    Grid Warp Transition — After Effects

    Learn how to bend reality (and pixels) with a Grid Warp Transition in After Effects. Perfect for when a normal cut just isn’t dramatic enough, and you want your footage to look like it fell into a tactical funhouse mirror.

  • Ferris Wheel — After Effects

    Ferris Wheel — After Effects

    In this tutorial, we build a majestic Ferris wheel in After Effects, and then use expressions to make sure the carriages don’t spin wildly and fling passengers into the stratosphere. Because physics is important. And lawsuits are expensive.

  • Animate Text Stroke — After Effects

    Animate Text Stroke — After Effects

    In this tutorial, we animate text stroke and tracking using the range selector, because every letter deserves its own dramatic entrance. It’s perfect for making your words look like they’re slowly gaining confidence, and possibly forming a union.

  • Grid Lines — After Effects

    Grid Lines — After Effects

    In this video, we animate lines in a grid, because nothing says “organized chaos” like a bunch of rectangles appearing in a perfectly controlled panic. We’re using opacity expressions, track mattes, and something called Grinder, which sounds intense but mostly helps your grid not look like it was made by raccoons.

  • Fly in By Character — After Effects

    Fly in By Character — After Effects

    Trying to make your text fly in by character—but it’s coming in backwards like it’s being typed by a confused time traveler? This tutorial shows you how to fix that, so your letters enter in the order you actually wrote them, not whatever After Effects felt like that day.

  • 3D Camera Tracker — After Effects

    3D Camera Tracker — After Effects

    In this tutorial, we use the 3D Camera Tracker in After Effects to slap character stats into real-world footage—just like in Jumanji, but with fewer jungle monsters and more keyframes. Learn how to make your scene look like your friends just spawned into an action RPG with questionable survival odds.

  • Text on a Path — After Effects

    Text on a Path — After Effects

    In this tutorial, we show you how to put text on a path—so your words can finally curve, arc, and swirl like they’ve had one too many margaritas. Great for fancy titles, logos, or making your captions look like they’re trying to escape the screen.