30 After Effects Tips in 15 Minutes (No Fluff)
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Motion Design
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30 After Effects tips in about 15 minutes. No intro, no fluff, just one trick after another: glows that keep the shape sharp, smooth motion with no dead stops, Nulls, Light Sweep, gradients, a 3D camera fly-through, bounce, Linear Color Key transitions, liquid glass and more
🔵AppleFX, the plugin I use in some of these tips: https://8bitbrain.store/products/applefx
Chapters:
0:00 Fast Box Blur instead of glow
0:23 Shake on a precomp
0:42 Keep the motion going, no stops
1:13 Nulls to keep the motion going
1:41 Glowing line
2:09 Light Sweep
2:54 Repeater
3:11 Markers on the numpad
3:38 Text animation by hand
4:11 Text animation with AppleFX
4:50 Mask blur on an adjustment layer
5:19 Soft white gradient, Apple style
5:49 Warp
6:10 Grid background with orbs
6:43 Luma
6:56 3D camera fly-through
7:47 Luma
8:23 Style anything with Layer Styles
8:56 Luma
9:21 Fast Box Blur + Simple Choker
9:56 Gradients instead of plain colors
10:19 Bounce by hand
10:47 Bounce with AppleFX
11:19 Gradients and Colorama
11:57 Unique shape layers
12:24 Liquid color text
12:49 Liquid color text in one click
13:09 CC Rainfall
13:24 Animate the whole word
13:45 Linear Color Key transition
14:09 Radial Wipe and Linear Wipe
14:30 Path animation
15:03 Liquid glass (2 options)
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30 After Effects tips in about 15 minutes. No intro, no fluff, just one trick after another: glows that keep the shape sharp, smooth motion with no dead stops, Nulls, Light Sweep, gradients, a 3D camera fly-through, bounce, Linear Color Key transitions, liquid glass and more
🔵AppleFX, the plugin I use in some of these tips: https://8bitbrain.store/products/applefx
Chapters:
0:00 Fast Box Blur instead of glow
0:23 Shake on a precomp
0:42 Keep the motion going, no stops
1:13 Nulls to keep the motion going
1:41 Glowing line
2:09 Light Sweep
2:54 Repeater
3:11 Markers on the numpad
3:38 Text animation by hand
4:11 Text animation with AppleFX
4:50 Mask blur on an adjustment layer
5:19 Soft white gradient, Apple style
5:49 Warp
6:10 Grid background with orbs
6:43 Luma
6:56 3D camera fly-through
7:47 Luma
8:23 Style anything with Layer Styles
8:56 Luma
9:21 Fast Box Blur + Simple Choker
9:56 Gradients instead of plain colors
10:19 Bounce by hand
10:47 Bounce with AppleFX
11:19 Gradients and Colorama
11:57 Unique shape layers
12:24 Liquid color text
12:49 Liquid color text in one click
13:09 CC Rainfall
13:24 Animate the whole word
13:45 Linear Color Key transition
14:09 Radial Wipe and Linear Wipe
14:30 Path animation
15:03 Liquid glass (2 options)
#LumaPartner #AfterEffects #MotionDesign #MotionGraphics #AfterEffectsTutorial
Luma: @lumalabsai
_____________________________________________________
💵 My Store: https://8bitbrain.store
🎥 Follow me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/8bit.brainn/
👾 Our Community: https://discord.gg/UreXqnGwvg
Subscribe for weekly VFX, motion design, and editing tutorials that actually work in real projects.
💬 Drop your thoughts in the comments — would you try this challenge?
👍 Like if you want more breakdowns like this
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