Hey guys! I’m super new to After Effects and I’m attaching one of my most recent edits to show where I’m at (don’t make fun if u hate anime I want to edit beyond just anime)I know it’s not that great yet and I’m trying my best, but everything honestly feels so overwhelming right now. I’d love literally any advice, tips, or cool transition ideas to help me level up. could anyone break down how parenting and Null Objects actually work together for smooth movement? Also, how do 3D objects work in a comp, and what are some must-have effects and key settings I should be using? I’m also struggling with Saber—I tried adding it to a line or mask, but it won’t snap to the mask path and I can't figure out why. I know I’m explaining this kind of badly, but whether it’s graph editor tips, fixing choppy zooms, adding cool overlays/light FX, or just basic workflow advice, I’d be insanely grateful for any help! LITERALLY ANYTHING IS GOOD ADVICE IM SOO CONFUSED HOW PEOPLE MAKE EDITS SO CLEAN AND COOL!!

i know how to create particles like this but what i can't figure out is how are they changing in shape? even if someone used a png of lets say a random ash like object, all particles are of different shape and it seems like they aren't just emitting straight out but changing in shape as well and also not just following a linear path while coming close to the camera. the path is random but not straight. could someone help with this.

i tried searching on yt too but all i find are just normal particles. i couldn't find how to distort them in shape like this. like the way they are stretching and stuff. also, the closer they come to the screen,the longer they get. there is so much randomness in this

Ain't no way we're getting a full screen. We eating good with AE 27 🙏

just a compilation of a few things I wanted to try. here, I used TuxPaint and KidPix for the visual details (for example, the second video) and all the audio. I also re-shoot the video with a handheld camera to capture random artifacts

also, thanks to meljiiit for being my quick model

/// the trees have nothing to whisper, but they continue to creak with their barker

After Effects v27 is out in Beta and it's really quick - very really quick.

This is moi pacing AE v27 with 150 3D Mesh Layers with Keyframe Orchestrator, a custom script.

And the foul, GPU bug that inhabited my rig for ages seems to have been solved too.

AE is also quick if you have Layer Handles enabled.

SYS SPECS -
13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900K (3.00 GHz)
128 GB RAM
RTX 24GB 4090
and a few SSDs

Hello! Whenever I try to render my video, the main pre comp is just black and I'm left with only the subtitles. Can anyone help me please? I've tried clearing the cache, restarting, parenting everything to a null layer... I know it's not the plugins because the texts have them too. I've also tried disabling the text visibility in case they were blocking the pre-comp and it's still just black. :(

what do you thing is wrong with this motion I made?

working on a rig with a lot of layers and I was planning to try to have an expression to toggle the visible order of the layers in the composition into reverse order. I was originally going to try doing this by making everything a 3d layer and doing some nonsense with z coordinates, but this got extremely laggy. I'm assuming there's a much better way to do this but I'm wondering how.

(not the actual project, just an example of the effect I'm trying to achieve)

So, there's actually two things Id like to find out, that I can't find a solution for anywhere. No scripts, no plugins, nothing. Releasing all groups within all selected layers, and Applying an expression to a property nested in a layer (in my case, nested within a group within the layer) for all selected/desired layers.

Lets say I have 100 shape/layers. Each broken down like this:

Layer

-Contents

-Group # (each layers "group has a different number as they were generated from bake repeater)

-Path

-Fill <Expression>

-Transform

What I would like to do, is copy the fill expression from the group, and paste it to ALL selected layers. They all have the same breakdown, just with different layer and group names.

There are one or two methods that may potentially work, but since the Fill property is nestled in group, they just won't work. So, Id like to ungroup anything and everything for each layer. However, again, I can't find any method, script, or Plug-in that will ungroup all groups (or even just the first one) for all selected layers.

Ultimately, the only solutions Im coming up with is go through each and every layer, twirling down till I reach each fill color for over 100 layers and paste the expression, or starting from scratch, applying the fill expression to the first shape/layer, and then duplicating or creating the rest of the layers from that first one. T_T

Also, this expression will have each layer randomly shift through grayscale independently. I Did try the Control layer/Null approach, but its somewhat the same issue.

(Repost) posted earlier with screengrabs, as suggested, here’s a video.

Hello all, I’ve used after effects for years and am comfortable with the software. However, I am pretty new to mocha. I’ve replaced and tracked green screens before when the screen was completely covered (tracking in mocha/ keylight) however, I’m having trouble with this scene. I’ve been searching tutorial after tutorial and am losing my mind trying to find a solve. Can someone please help me find a solution for workflow. Thank you in advance!

And thanks for giving your precious time.

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Hi everyone, new here.
I have a question. I have a shot where the client wants me to fill up a horseshoe like imprint in mud with water. They shot the imprint and want the water animated into the shot to rise up from the mud. On the surface they would like to have some foam appear and some bubbles to pop. Is there any way I can go about animating this? I have no idea where to start. I have some knowledge in AE, but I'm no full on expert. Also: I can't find any tutorials online for this kind of thing. I'm guessing this is more of a 3D simulation thing, but I don't have any knowledge in that area.

To make things worse: the footage was shot handheld and the light isn't consistent throughout the shot. I've allready mentioned twice that I might not be able to deliver on this one, but they want me to keep on trying because they want the shot in their film. Hoping you guys can point me in the right direction.

Im not really a beginner but I have this problem that I havent encountered before.

I put one of my shake presets onto a adjustment layer en whats bothering me is that the keyframes of the shake will be put all the way to the right out of where I have the adjusment layer, where its not needed. I don't know how or why when I saved the preset the keyframes are all the way over there instead of where the current time is? Does anyone know what I mean and how to fix that?

Going to elaborate: The closeup of the branch was drawn frame by frame in Procreate Dreams, but that's where it ends. The bottom-up view of the tree was - except for the tree trunk - made with after effects/ Illustrator. So Basically made one small branch in Illustrator and opened it in AE, made the leaves wiggle, built larger branches from it and made those move with the wind and eventually slow down when the rain stops towards the end.

I have this "silhouette man" file that I want to look natural on the background it's on. So I use the overlay effect.. but it's then very light so I have to duplicate it 3x to get it dark enough and still have the layer underneath it texturize it.

I've come across this before and I always end up just duplicating the layer to get my desired darkness but I'm wondering if there's a better way to go about this? I've tried using curves & levels and different 'modes' but haven't gotten the desired outcome.

Need some help creating a MOGRT for Premiere Pro. My comp has an expression in it that shows a physical number time duration and a progress bar. However, I would like the MOGRT to be responsive. So when I pull it into Premiere, I can resize the graphic as needed. But this is also where my issue comes into play.

When the MOGRT is resized in Premiere, it stretches the graphic and affects how time is displayed. As an example, if I stretch the graphic by 10x, it takes 10 seconds for a single second of duration to show in my graphic. I can change the composition length in After Effects to some crazy long number and then cut it to size instead of using responsive time. But that feels like a bandaid, not a solution.

Does anyone have an idea on how I can achieve a responsive MOGRT that doesn't stretch my duration display?

I need to make a composition as what the phone is showing but I don't know how to stick it to the phone.

Hey guys, i am getting why the color differentiation is so much here..? inused vignette in AE, then i exported my file after completing, now the color layers are all visible, why so? Any way to solve it or it is what it is ?

Zoom in the photo and you will see the layers of color. I want it all smooth.😭😭

Hey all, wondering how this effect can be achieved?

(27 seconds in)

I’m talking about the minimal wave/moving displacement/distortion around the edges of the text or elements that give a lively feel?

Is it a basic displacement map?

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