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Bringing joy back to motion ๐ŸŒˆ with anti-burnout tools for After Effects

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This is Skew, and it will forever change the way you look at After-Effects [Thread]
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This is how fast it is to animate in After Effects using Kangaroo
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Did you know you can drag and drop properties to the viewer to quickly convert them to live text layers?
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After Effects Biggest Issue
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NEWS: Adobe just brought H.264 back from the dead in the latest After Effects beta
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Wiggle for Adobe After-Effects is now out! And it's free โœจ
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Adobe just released "Selectable Track Matte" for After-Effects ๐Ÿฅณ
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Meet Kangaroo for After Effects. The tool that summons layers from the future [Thread]
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...๐Ÿ˜ณ... ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿ‘ˆ
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After-Effects: how to use expressions to place an object exactly in between two other points
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Did you know that a new After-Effects alternative will be released this month? It's called Autograph
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Left Angle
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In Autograph, image processing is done in a 32-bit per channel linear colorspace workflow, ensuring optimal image quality without compromise ๐Ÿ‘. Preserve original image resolution and vector graphics during transformations. #motiondesign #leftangleautograph
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Liquify and Spin
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What an incredible demonstration of #Skew
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After-Effects: how to create soft parenting / loose tracking
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โšก๏ธWhat's a super powerful effect combo in After-Effects you can't go without? I'd start... ๐Ÿ‘‡
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After Effects 2023 splash screen artwork is the best one in a while @AdobeAE
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Made with #Skew in @AdobeAE
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Adobe After-Effects Tier List @AdobeAE
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๐Ÿค”
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๐ŸŽ๏ธ๐Ÿ’จ #skew
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Skew can manage tens and even hundreds of layers at a time. And for the first time ever in After-Effects, you can shrink your layers to fit the timeline, making the biggest of comps incredibly easy to design.
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Hey that's you
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Not gonna lie... The properties panel in @AdobeAE is๐Ÿ”ฅ
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Fast Box Blur x Matte Choker I use it all the time. Makes it extremely easy to blobify random shapes.
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Kangaroo โค๏ธ Easing! When your initial layers are animated differently, Kangaroo will accurately animate the layers it creates in-between to achieve a seamless blend.
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Forbidden @AdobeAE features: Parenting layers from the viewer & time offset for children layers #aftereffects #features
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Installing After-Effects
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Queens don't have to name their layers
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Made with #Skew in @AdobeAE
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Make Shape Layers Great Again!
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shpr for After Effects is now out! Try it out for free: #aftereffects #shpr #adobeAE #script What is shpr? {a thread}
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Welcome to the Expressions Cheat Sheet. >> Start your learning journey now. Itโ€™s free!
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I've been enjoying using @screenstudioapp by @pie6k recently. Demos of Skew look great with version 2.0 that just came out.
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Introducing the After-Effects Expressions Cheat Sheet
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If you thought this was crazy, just wait for tomorrow's sneak peek.
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Skew brings an uncontrollable amount of power to your fingertips, making it incredibly easy to shape layers in the timeline
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This is Skew. With it, After-Effects will never feel the same. Get Skew:
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Made with #Skew for @AdobeAE
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What a good boy
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Colored Keyframes are officially coming to After-Effects. Thanks @AdobeAE
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Victoria
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AE friends, you might want to check out today's beta update. Things are looking a bit more ...colorful. ๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŒˆ
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Colors for After-Effects is now out (and 50% OFF for a limited time). Colors lets you generate a palette from a comp, explore an endless array of color combos, and also recolor ENTIRE COMPS in a click. It's like nothing you used before.
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And that is just the tip of the iceberg. Visit to learn about the ungodly amount of power skew unlocks.
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If you thought this was crazy, just wait for the next sneak peek...
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Skew's Liquify brush brings a familiar experience to a completely new environment, allowing you to gently touch your layers and push them into place.
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Hmm
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That'll be epic ๐Ÿ˜†
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Sounds very promising, and here's how it works
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August will be the biggest month for motion graphics in 2022
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When you render with only 10 samples #blender
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Next week we're gonna make wiggle() great again @AdobeAE
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Get your lube ready: #Noodle is coming back with a HUGE performance boost, real-time preview, and the smoothest UI ever.
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NEW: After Effects beta now supports importing 3D models
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Available today in After Effects Beta: native 3D model import Can't emphasize enough how hard the team has worked on this + how much under the hood is different to make it work. Long road ahead to get out of beta. Appreciate you trying it + your thoughts.
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Noodle for After Effects is now out! Here's a special 25% discount for my twitter followers: What is Noodle? {a thread} #aftereffects #NoodleAE #LookMomNoKeyframes #adobeAE #script
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Fun Tidbit: With the labels list open, you can type the first letter of the label color to apply it faster. Here I'm typing "R" for red, "B" for blue, and "Y" for yellow. @AdobeAE
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Felt cute. Might delete later... #Skew #Soon @AdobeAE
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Something new is coming to After-Effects...
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๐Ÿ†• version of #Skew just dropped! You can now easily reverse the order of layers to bring elements from back to front / front to back
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Hyper Brew
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Sometimes after making useful tools, you just have to make some that are fun, but completely useless. We present: AE Keyframe Renderer๐Ÿ”ธ๐Ÿ”น๐Ÿ”ธ๐Ÿ”น๐Ÿ”ธ๐Ÿ”น๐Ÿ”ธ๐Ÿ”น The slowest and most exciting way to render in After Effects! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐ŸŒ
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@AdobeAE just dropped a new feature
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Behind the sleek interface resides an incredibly rich set of tools, such as "Select Every" which makes selecting groups of layers faster than ever before
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10/10 launch video โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ˜ฉ
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This is Speed โšก๏ธ An After Effects script for retiming anything. Layers, keyframes, or entire comps.
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shpr for After-Effects will be 50% OFF for the rest of this week too! Thanks for all the nice things you said about it! - Feel free to share and tag the @goodboyninja with your creations!
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Looks interesting
@jittervideo
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Introducing the all-new Jitter! ๐Ÿ’ซ With a completely new UI, tons of new features, and one mission: make motion design accessible to anyone. Check it out at
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Good catch!
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{ motion design } @goodboyninja 's brain just works different โ€“ this tiny mini-graph editor for adjusting the spacing for clones in their new KANGAROO script for After Effects?!? Genius-level.
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So happy to see the first #Skew posts in the wild! @AdobeAE
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First proper play with Skew from @goodboyninja . So much fun. It feels so intuitive and natural. My old method of doing stuff like this feels rigid in comparison.
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The properties panel is looking hot. What do you think?
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Procreate just announced an entirely new animation app for iPad. What do you think? ๐Ÿ‘€
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Unpopular opinion: Multi Frame Rendering in @AdobeAE is not what you should be excited about right now (thread)
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Death of the Character panel? ๐Ÿ†•After-Effects beta now supports text in the properties panel
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One of the big things we've heard from AE beta users is that the Properties panel needed text support. Good news: it's in today's beta! Give it a try and let us know what you think.
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Done with Wiggle. Time for what's next...
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The new wiggle() tool is slowly taking shape @AdobeAE
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80% OFF EVERYTHING FOR AFTER-EFFECTS / 24 HOURS NOODLE - 1$ SHPR - 3$ COLORS - 8$ USE COUPON CODE: goodboy80
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#Noodle2 will support positions, rotations, paths, and more! In this rig, parts of the lamp noodle to the motion of their parents. The springs are Noodle paths. Noodle saves you tons of time by generating all the secondary motions and brings this character to life! @AdobeAE
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Being able to access properties from somewhere else other than the timeline can unlock a whole new vision for After-Effects {a tiny thread}
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NEW: This is what keyframes look like in the new After-Effects beta @AdobeAE
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Thank you for 4K Followers โค๏ธ Enjoy a 40% discount on #Noodle , #Colors . Power up your After-Effects now:
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Skew for @AdobeAE version 1.01 is out, with bug fixes and improvements ๐Ÿž
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This is Skew, and it will forever change the way you look at After-Effects [Thread]
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@DermotFaloon An upcoming tool I've been working on
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Now do it with After-Effects
@browsercompany
The Browser Company
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What if the internet... was actually ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ internet? ๐ŸŽจ Introducing Boosts 2.0 โ€” only in Arc
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This is wonderful
@RO_Motion
Ross Owens
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Hacking the After Effects Textbox ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Textboxes in AE don't let us control the bounds with anything but our plain old mouse... unless? We scale the text layer DOWN while scaling the font size UP an equal amount with a couple of expressions. See the steps below โคต๏ธ
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Moved all of my products from Gumroad to @lmsqueezy
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Yes! This was my inspiration for Wiggle! I love how DAW plugins are full of personality, it would be incredible to see more After-Effects developers taking a more unique approach when it comes to panel design.
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I love how AE Scripts are getting more unique UI designs. It reminds me of how vsts and audio plugins are each so different
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Noodle 2 is coming soon
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What is going on?
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Get ready to begin a new chapter in one of the most beloved animation systems of all time. We are very excited.
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This means Kangaroo also works with paths! Point by point, it will fill in the gaps or continue your changes, setting the ground for your next incredible motion design piece.
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@goodboyninja
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Excuse me? ๐Ÿคฏ
@FakeGreenDress
Victoria
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๐Ÿ†• There's a really fun update to one of my favorite Cycore effects in today's After Effects Beta (x49) update: CC Ball Action gets a new Displacement parameter and Shading options. You can do so many things with these! Here are a few tests I made yesterday.
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Blender vs After Effects in UI Snappiness
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