After Effects Tutorials & Tips
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…
Beyond Keyframes: Your Journey into After Effects Scripting (and Expressions!) Are you a motion designer looking to elevate your craft, automate tedious tasks, and create animations that seem magically complex? If so, diving into After Effects expressions and scripting is your next big leap. I know, the word “code” can be daunting, but think of…
Script Preset Manager for After Effects: The Ultimate Script & Extension Installer If you’ve ever managed multiple scripts, ScriptUI panels, and extensions for Adobe After Effects, you know the pain of navigating directories, copying files, and ensuring compatibility across different AE versions. The Script Preset Manager—an advanced After Effects script—solves all these headaches with an…
Script Launcher is a fully responsive and customizable ScriptUI panel for Adobe After Effects, designed to streamline your workflow by letting you launch your favorite scripts with a single click. Whether you’re a motion designer, VFX artist, or AE power user, this panel automatically detects .js, .jsx, and .jsxbin files in its dedicated Scripts folder…
This After Effects script thoroughly cleans your project by automatically removing all expressions from every layer and property within your compositions. It recursively scans through property groups, ensuring that even nested expressions are eliminated. With built-in error handling and detailed logging, the script not only reports the total number of expressions removed but also provides…
This script automates the process of creating multiple compositions in After Effects from a single template. Each line of text that you input will become its own composition. The script first validates that your project is open and then displays a user-friendly dialog for you to enter your text. It then searches your project for…
This script automates many of the repetitive tasks involved in creating transitions and setting up a composition, letting you focus on adjusting creative parameters as needed. Usage: To use the script, follow these steps: