Elevate Your After Effects Workflow With These Expert Techniques

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This time, I'm back with a classic tutorial creating this smooth type animation with soft gradients and neon glows in service of showing off my favorite techniques I use in almost every motion design project. all in Adobe After Effects. I'll show you the entire workflow so you can see how it all comes all together in the end, faster than you expect.
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@marioibrahim4173 Год назад

So I just ctrl click? Where have you been all this years I spent twirling down into properties just to change my butt caps into rounded ones? 😢

@BenMarriott Год назад

Right?! Changing stroke caps is so tedious otherwise. I love buttcapper for that as well.

@PixelDough Год назад

This same trick can actually be applied to many other programs, even folder hierarchies in some operating systems. It's also usable in reverse to close all properties, as if you just closed the top level it wouldn't close all the others inside it if you opened it back up normally

@marioibrahim4173 Год назад

@@PixelDough that's really neat.

@davidbatbold Год назад

You can unlink the mask feather (like scale) so that only the y axis gets the feather and not the x. By doing that, you don’t have to make the sides of the mask larger to avoid the unwanted feathering

@BenMarriott Год назад

This is a great tip, I had no idea!

@ysiegel Год назад

wow!

@BeingSanatani Год назад

@@BenMarriott 0:19 how to do this jump effect??

@dappe8822 Год назад

@@BeingSanatani position + rotation

@CoralieBinder Год назад

I just began to watch and the [Cmd + click on the arrow] to see all the parameters already killed me. Man, do we NEED this kind of videos, thank you so much!

@BenMarriott Год назад

Thanks Coralie! If had discovered that earlier, I think I'd have saved months of my life toggling down properties

@diegogamba7825 Год назад

Ben is a treasure to this community.

@jessegimbel Год назад

Your videos always have a lot of great tips but this one seems even more packed with them. Excellent stuff!

@zacksexplainers Год назад

I've marked down some subtle but super useful but subtle key commands Ben dishes out (for myself as much as anybody) - Revealing all properties on a layer -- 1:08 - Cycle through fill options on a shape layer -- 1:50 - Shortcut for easy ease on keyframes -- 3:44 - Selecting the mask on a shape layer -- 7:10 Thanks Ben! Another video I'll come back to several times I'm sure

@ltb337 Год назад

Thanks for this. 😉🤞

@user-zd9qv7ee7o Год назад

I don't even want to be a professional motion designer, but it is so charming to watch your smooth pipelines of stylish minimalitic animations.

@surplusvalues Год назад

Ben you're a wizard. I love how all of this is achieved without any plugins either, just smart (beautiful) design.

@111tv Год назад

Once again, thanks for your generosity!!! Adobe bless you!!!

@alexplaysplaysplays Год назад

Perfecto! Thanks Ben!

@shivendrapawar9618 Год назад

I have never seen any after effect tutorial so beautifully made, Such nice and simple video with lots of info...

@BenMarriott Год назад

This comment made my day, thank you :)

@riccardomengoli3326 Год назад

I love these good old plug in free tutorials with a lot of useful informations!

@SalvationArt Год назад

This is so professional yet made seem so simple. Thank you 🙏🏽

@taebae2862 Год назад

BRILLIANT! So many nuggets of information and techniques I can use later!

@himagnamallikorg Год назад

one of the best gfx designer i have seen

@ralph7752 Год назад

Those tiny details beside the tip to notice is excellent, great tutorial!

$@confdefracasado$

@confdefracasado Год назад

your videos are awesome, please never stop doing them

@lilianmihailova4589 Год назад

I think I might be in love with your tutorials.

@editorartem Год назад

omgomg that "hold down ctrl and click arrow to reveal all properties of a shape layer" tip is on another level

@techhfreakk Год назад

Ben, your voice in these tutorials is so pleasing. You're the Bob Ross of Motion Designers

@albertskowronski Год назад

It's funny how after using AE for over 10 years now I'm still able to pick up some new tricks - like alt click to cycle through fill options - brilliant!

@spaetzlelova90 Год назад

thank you ben!!!

@laxsurfer16 Год назад

Thank you Ben

@BenMarriott Год назад

Thank you for watching!!

@amir._.4988 Год назад

Great.thanks for sharing these fantastic techniques Ben

@BenMarriott Год назад

You're welcome Amir!

@Rosomyat Год назад

High level class tutorial. Many tips learned. Thanks and keep the good work.

@mediocreape Год назад

that was so well done! Thank you for posting this.

@BenMarriott Год назад

You're welcome Mr. Ape! I'm stoked you found it useful :)

@benjamintuck9258 Год назад

Excellent little video, really nice animation. Reminds me i need to get back to the course. Had a busy year and lost a lot of motivation but will come back soon and continue where i left off :)

@BenMarriott Год назад

Thanks my friend!! Hope you get a well deserved rest over the holidays

@dopemotions Год назад

This was super helpful tutorial!

@colincazier 2 месяца назад

incredible. only recently found your channel and am so thankful for these tutorials.

@D_The_Crafter Год назад

I was able to follow this tutorial in davinci resolve using fusion, and still get the same result. This is so good and informative, Thank you for the awesome videos

@alinamia4302 Год назад

So useful, thank you!

@Adhithya2003 Год назад

Wonderful ben!

@usamaali9330 Год назад

I don’t know you read this or not but this is the best tutorial to learn aftereffect. It’s interesting, more engaging and in-depth. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@metalabyss107 Год назад

Great tutorial and above all great explanation.

@rickardbengtsson Год назад

Always good stuff ben

@PontoZe Год назад

15 years using AE and in 2min of this tutorial I already learned 2 new shortcuts!

@surfexcelll Год назад

Satisfaction 😍

@BenMarriott Год назад

Happy to be of service :)

@zukhriddinmakhmudov3793 Год назад

Ben we love you

@stephanzammit Год назад

Great tutorial :) Well done!

@talescaveira Год назад

Thanks a lot for showing me this wonderful, incredible thing called anchor point tool. Yes, it's a shame, but I confess... I've been ajusting the anchor points using the parameters and then putting things back where they are supposed to be for 2 years. Somehow I felt this was wrong, but I kept on doing this. I have some work to get done still this year! I owe you some hour of sleep! And, no. I never used to label layers. Now I do. Specially pre comps. I reused some pre comps from previous project on my last video. And, it had 3 or 4 "comp1".

@ivansemchuk Год назад

I like the reverse engeniring technique of glow effect. I guess now you can use it it with lottie. Thanks!

@FrytoTheFry Год назад

Thank you!!

@goranthoren5522 3 месяца назад

Nice! You can unlink the feather dimensions instead of making a huge mask. Just a friendly pointer.

@Shrike8473 Год назад

Waking Up never been so Beautifull

@SiHargreaves Год назад

You just saved me about a million hours with the cmd click arrow to open all the properties!

@danielzana818 Год назад

Came here for the motion tips, stayed here for the cutaways to the tape measure!

@BenMarriott Год назад

Glad it was worth whipping out the camera for those XD

@advikedits Год назад

Thank you sir 😀

@CausticAscarite 5 месяцев назад

i've never added masks to shapes because it just creates more shapes. Everytime I was applying masks to comps and solids for that matter wow, just wow, you learn something new everyday

@chinoborrego4828 Год назад

The whole thing is great and full of info as always, but I want a tutorial on Joden Newman's take of this!!! OMG such a visionary

@njanadesign Год назад

you are just fantastic

@azure4302 Год назад

GOLDEN

@GustavoHenrique-ub8ts Год назад

G.O.A.T

@saliuarts Год назад

i reeeeally love this game looking tutorial. Pls do more Game like effects

@jodenclash Год назад

Mum! Come quick! I'm in a Ben Marriott video! Great tutorial, love how meditative this one feels, compared to the mad dash getting it done in the first place!

@BenMarriott Год назад

Feel free to add that to your imdb Joden!

@svampefett 3 месяца назад

Many of you probably know this, but exporting from Adobe XD directly to After effects is a game changer!

@svampefett 3 месяца назад

Each artboard from XD basically becomes a composition, just remember to rename layers etc before exporting. And groups become parented with shy parameter. which is nice.

@Tognasca Год назад

how did you came up with this idea so fast? I guess you need to have tons of references to create this fast right? Great job!

@robinblueqube Год назад

you can also add a touch of noise to help with the banding.

@leofreaking Год назад

3:10 One little plugin I found insanely useful when animating is the Anchor Point Mover that comes with the Animation Composer 3. Just snaps your anchor point to any corner or center of the shape/text or whatever. And it's free

@deadneck13 Год назад

You don't even need a plugin for that. Just hold the Ctrl key, and it will snap to center, a corner, or the middle of any side.

@leofreaking Год назад

@@deadneck13 Good point. But if you wanna realign a bunch of anchor points at once with just one click, that's a great way to do it. It's just a bit quicker and helps me lot when the assets change or I wanna try different ways to animate something

@Agvart28 Год назад

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@MrQuentini Год назад

Nice!

@jtjt7442 Год назад

thx Ben.

@johntnguyen1976 Год назад

Shades of Bob Ross...I felt so calm and positive watching this 😀

@kacpervision Месяц назад

Hey! Great tutorial but it is worth noticing that to simply duplicating beams and adjusting their positions to specific letters you should choose font that has each letter same size (width) otherwise you will have to adjust beams' width or change font. :)

@melk01 Год назад

Cool

@BenMarriott Год назад

Thanks cool cat!

@redaizo Год назад

10 years with AE didn't know I could anchor snap on points damn thanks

@serious_about_men Год назад

this feels like a 2011 opening sequence for a streaming service

@xaska104 Год назад

Dios mio, que hermoso

@Shady21 Год назад

❤️❤️

@BenMarriott Год назад

Two?! You're too kind :)

@shuddabinswollode Год назад

im a sucker for keyboard shortcuts

@UnK1999 Год назад

Awesome video,🔥🔥🔥 thank you for sharing this…I’m brand new to AE, what would be the best way to change colors of each letter? Thanks again!!!

@rowliv Год назад

Say no more. I am subscribed.

@LucasNoce Год назад

Couple of tips: - Use a null for animation so you dont repeat yourself - You can adjust the alfa in the gradient - Precomposing is your friend: make one beam and ctrl + d afterwards

@ePICS8 Год назад

How do I make a different duplicate of the precompose? I mean, I want to duplicate and change what is inside without changing what is inside another duplicate precompose of the same thing.

@dushfack Год назад

@@ePICS8 Just copy and paste what’s inside the pre-comp, pre-compose the newly pasted as a different comp name

@octas_filmes Год назад

@@ePICS8 aescripts > TrueCompDuplicator

@kahoryaowoleng1059 Год назад

@@ePICS8 in the project box (where all the comps/solids/images are) just copy the comp you want and paste it in there and use the copied comp.

@kahoryaowoleng1059 Год назад

@@octas_filmes or download this

@Horsestinger Месяц назад

Wonderful minimalistic animation. May I know which font have you used for the word? Much thanks! :D

@NanerBag Год назад

14:05 We NEED this guy to be featured in another video

@jodenclash Год назад

So kind, thank you!

@tarikalpat Год назад

Where did you find those musics/Sfx? Sounds amazing! Could you give a few keyword for this kinds of musics please?

@ahmedsaadkamel5601 10 месяцев назад

جميل ماشاء الله

@steveloudon7491 Год назад

A question if I may. You said you made the letters into individual layers in photoshop. Is there a difference between that and changing the letters to shapes in AE? Thanks.

@emb0y Год назад

Could you put the link for the tape measure in the description? thank u

@Loki.Variant Год назад

im also still learning ae but i assure you, that guy with "more money more drugs more rock n roll", will go farrrrrrr xDDDDD

@jaysonfontela5761 Год назад

💖

@KEY-uq1hf 4 месяца назад

I had trouble around the 10-minute mark when copying and pasting keyframes. The frames weren't appearing on the layers I pasted them onto. I solved it by separating the X/Y dimensions and only pasting to the Y. I must have missed the step to separate dimensions on all layers; I only did it for the M layer.

@nguyenhoangnam Год назад

Can you share the background music you used? I really like it

@cosmicparsec9463 Год назад

hey friend, thanks a lot for the video. I've been looking for a tutorial on how to make these elements go up and down for a while, exactly as it was done at 0:20 with the AE file icon. I don't even know what to search to find out how to do this, because I already researched several terms and did not find anything teaching. Could you give me a light? Do you have any tutorial about this? Was it in Premiere that you did it? If so, even better for me. Thanks.

@sculptor000 Год назад

1:10 just double press the U key it'll reveal the size

@ciaranoc Год назад

Hit UU to reveal all the properties which have been changed from the default values, massive time saver1:04

@sharawymusic 7 месяцев назад

Can we animate these beams to music like a visualizer?

@RReapxRR Год назад

Okay this is a very stupid question but, what do you do to import from illustrator, do you mean that you export the layers and then place them in after effects? Or is there an explicit way to bypass that step and import illlustrator graphics directly into after effects?

@rkreutzkamp Год назад

Biggest learning from this video: "tittle". And also everything else 😂

@Bonirin Год назад

you could've used the width of the layer, with Layer control effect and a simple expression, making width of the beam always follow the width of the letter, and just changing the "parent" on the layer control for each letter

@Bonirin Год назад

Also copying effcts with Cntrl + Alt + C would also link all the parameters, of the effects pasted, to the original effect

@Bonirin Год назад

Although the size parameters access through expression would probably work better if you imported the letters from illustrator using something like Overlord or just copying and pasting the shape directly

@BenMarriott Год назад

That would definitely be useful, especially if the letters width changed as well. Thanks for sharing!

@grqfes Год назад

i had to pause and rewind like a million times and then id accidentally hold space while focused on youtube and drag something off in ae

@hoozn Год назад

It somehow feels like blasphemy to leave one of those "why didn't you just..." comments under one of your videos, but why didn't you just unlink the feather properties and adjust the y-value only, instead of having to keep an eye on the position/size of the mask? 😄 On a sidenote: for everyday adjustments like size/colour/contour, I find it easier to just double-tap the U button becasue I get easily overwhelmed with too many options lol, but that CMD+click tip will definitely come in handy for layer effects. So thanks a lot for another very useful piece of content 🤗

@BenMarriott Год назад

Heretic!!!! I honestly had no idea you could unlink the feather properties like that. Love comments like this, thanks for sharing the info!

@tgd2650 Год назад

Question: do you know any website for found best color palettes?

@oiganamitio Год назад

Why you're not using GPU acceleration?

@jeremymather9689 Год назад

1:53 - what's the trick to showing the handles? I have the layer selected, I have 'toggle mask and shape path visibility' on, I've tried selecting the gradient fill within the shape layer... I know you can manually change the start and end points, but still confused about getting those handles to appear in the composition window