The After Effects Blog

Updated Ink Bleeds and Blots Pack! We have completely overhauled and rebuilt one of our classic tools from the ground up: the brand-new Ink Bleeds & Blots template for Adobe After Effects is here. If you have ever used stock footage video clips of ink drops, you know how limiting it can be. You are stuck with someone else’s timing, someone else's colors, zero flexibility - not to mention the price tag, often exceeding $50. This updated template changes all of that by deliveri

Follow this tutorial, or check out the Animated Paper Textures pack for After Effects. If you love the look of mixed-media animations or hand-crafted stop-motion graphics, you’ve probably searched for stock footage of paper texture loops before. But buying a stock clip can cost upwards of $50—and worse, and they usually just loop the same five frames over and over, making the repeating pattern glaringly obvious. Save yourself the money and make something continuously random b

This tutorial will show you how to set up a 3D camera projection (aka "projection mapping") in Adobe After Effects. Camera projection mapping is one of the most powerful and cinematic visual effects techniques available. It allows you to take a flat, 2D still image and transform it into an immersive 3D scene that your camera can move through, pulling the viewers right into the picture. While you can build a camera projection entirely from scratch, there are a lot of settings