The Problem: Documenting Your Project Structure If you’ve ever needed to document your project’s file structure in a README or share it with team members, you know how tedious it can be to manually create those nice tree diagrams. Something like this: Sure, there are CLI tools like tree on Linux/macOS, but they might not…
Creating Realistic Water Fill Effects in After Effects with Expressions Introduction Creating realistic liquid animations can be challenging, especially when you need dynamic, adjustable water filling effects. While there are plugins available for this purpose, you can actually achieve a professional-looking water fill effect using expressions directly in After Effects. In this tutorial, I’ll share…
Creating Dynamic Auto-Resizing Text Boxes in After Effects The Problem: Static Text Boxes Are Limiting If you’ve worked with text in After Effects, you’ve likely encountered this common challenge: you create a beautiful text box with a background shape, but when you update the text content, your carefully positioned background shape no longer fits. This…
Mastering Anchor Points in After Effects with Expression Controls Adobe After Effects is a powerful tool for motion graphics and visual effects. One of its many strengths is the ability to control layer properties with expressions. In this post, we’ll explore an anchor point expression that leverages a Dropdown Menu Expression Control to dynamically set…
Setting multiple features: Here are some other settings: Here are the set of functions available for text styling in After Effects expressions (all used on the style object): Function Purpose setFont(fontName, [startIndex], [endIndex]) Set font by PostScript/system name setFontSize(size, [startIndex], [endIndex]) Set font size setFauxBold(boolean, [startIndex], [endIndex]) Enable/disable faux bold setFauxItalics(boolean, [startIndex], [endIndex]) Enable/disable faux italics…