Beautiful Lighting & Shading in After Effects with Layer Styles 

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The king has blessed us once again

I got hired as video editor 3 years ago with no experience (I'm just a visual artist)... a couple years ago I discovered motion graphics, then later discovered your channel, and I LIVE for your uploads. My boss and team LOVE my work and I've become an asset at our company with the motion graphics/animation skills I've gained. THANK YOU for all that you do, you inspire me every day!

This one is a banger.

whenever i feel stuck, tired, in a rut with my projects, i watch a ben marriott video, and BOOM! my creative drive comes rushing back to me!

The Set Matte pink reflection trick was very smart!

I like it that you can achieve this Quality LeveL with just a few steps!!! Great tut as always

OMFG I've worked in AE for 5 years and spent so much time fiddling with with multiple alpha mattes for different layers. I never knew the 'set matte' effect existed until this tutorial. Thank you and I'm kicking myself XD

Awesome, love it! "This is animation, baby!" 😆

Your animations look amazing!

oh ... the glow with the matte... what a simple solution, and so effective! You rock, thank you xx

"Stuff doesn't need to make sense if it looks good!" Yeah baby 😗 I live for that rule 😉

I want a tshirt that says, "This is Animation Baby" on the front and "We Always Label Our Layers" on the back.

Cant believe I just found your channel. It's feels like I struct gold! Thank you for all these great contents!

Ben, I can't thank you enough for all the knowledge you share! Hope you're doing well.

Ben!! That reflection trick is genius! As soon as you did that I was like "Well, duh!". Excellent video as always.

Freakin blown away Ben, recreating Global Illumination in AE...especially on 2D layers!! Ugh...will try that Set Matte effect. So awsome👍🏼✨

The Set Matte with the Gaussian Blur is a very clever solution. Thanks so much for sharing and being so generous with your knowlege.

You are so cool! Loved this tutorial, i watched bunch of tutorials about shadow and this one just save my project,thank you🤩

Great tips Ben! Neat little way to create quick reflections too. 👍🏻

Thank you for this tutorial! I would like to learn more about basics like understanding physics of falling circle. But your tutorials are incredible, I just repeat it and get an amazing result!

I'll be using the "This is animation baby! Stuff doesn't need to make sense if it looks good!" line during client conversations a lot from now on! Thanks Ben

Another thing i didn't even know existed in AE 🙈. And the reflection stuff? Chef's kiss!

Ive honestly been practicing for hours to work this program i intend to animate professionally one day and the vidoes are a breath of fresh air I will say

Thank you!

Luv u Ben! Thanks for the shoutout!

Thank you Ben, this is exactly what I needed!

Thank you very much. I was really struggling to do this and you made it so simple.

omg the set matte reflection is so simple, but so effective! bravo!

Love this one, really gives that "ray tracing look" to an animation, thanks Ben!

A tutorial about colour settings in Adobe CC would be extremely helpful! No matter what I try, my colours always change when moving files between different Adobe programs...

Excellent techniques and insights Ben.. Thank you very much

Thanks for the cheeky shout out Ben!! :D

Great stuff as always mate! 😘

"Stuff doesn't need to make sense if it looks good" just wow said 🤩👍

i love this

Ohh yes, the set matte effect is a really underrated one! It definitely deserves some lovin, great video as always

Always amazed by the techniques and results with such simple tools. Thanks for sharing

The Set Matte + Gaussian Blur + Set Matte combination at 6:21 just blown my mind 😂 Really cool stuff right here.

Wow Ben !!!! It's so so so awesome!! The way u used set matte it's so cool nd the reflection of traingle on circle looks so releastic, loved it 😍😍😍🤗

This one was amazing.

Layer styles is so underrated!

Omggggggg Love these tutorials and you channel. Your tips really adds that value to my work, thank you so much.

Thank you for this! I had no idea that blur + set matte were so powerful.

Again, very detailed and direct. Thanks!

amazing as always Ben. Great work! I am going to tinker for a bit with this one.

That was outstanding techniques. Thanks for helping ❤️👏🏻

Very clever !! Thank you very much for the tips and really nice tricks :)

Subscribed. This channel is absolute class, so professional, and inspiring ideas

aaay this is awesome Ben!

you're the best Ben

Those reflections 👏👏👏

Incredible as always!

Amazing!!! Nice solution man!

That double set matte lit a lightbulb in my head haha

Very nice

this is great i'm planning on using this for animations i make in adobe animate for a semi-realistic look

Great tutorial mate! Keep it up!

Amazing! just amazing, thank you! I have to start thinking of AE a little bit like PS for some things :D

Wow! Thank you so much. Loved it

Another great one brother!

Thank you! I want to add some nice shading to my 2d animation. Make it more pleasing to the eye.

This tutorial is amazing!

THANKS !!!

The inner shadow with noise turned on creates another interesting effect, try it out

9:26 " it's a bit more on brand for this chili"

This is animation baby!

we love u bro ! so awsome

Yeah I made a pretty interesting project for class today and I wanted to add more (personally)

Discord gang!

AYOOOOOOOOOO PogChamp

Thank you

Awesome tutorial!

A big like. I'm happy to make you happy because you make me happy

Amazing!

Watching your vid in korea !!

Hey Ben, where's your lovely background music?🥺 Love the tutorial by the way!!!

Omg there so many things learn from you. I"m glad i found this channel. How can i send my low-key motion designs to you to take critisice from you.

thanks my guy!

Cool!!

Awesome work bro. Do More videos

Awesome!

Thanks for share!

Is there an effective way to simulate the gradient map from photoshop in After effects? Amazing tutorial Ben! :)

brilliant !

Wahoooooo! Very cool!

As always - Great! Sad, that I lost motivation.

genius

Nice! I was playing around with layer styles today funnily enough! It sucks I can't double up on the same layer style though. Feels very limiting seeing as I can't have the bevel and emboss have a noisy texture without changing the blending mode to Dissolve where as the inner glow has a slider for noise amount.

Gold 😊

Need to give this a shot 🤖

Any POGGERS 😮

great!

Nice! thx

😍❤ So pro bro.. 👏👏👏

i finally found this

Awesome

WOW!!!

Waouw nice ! but the question is how do you animate/make the rebound of the sphere so real ???

Ben, you are f*ckin awesome!