I just can't say enough about this series. Just amazing. So many effects I had no idea even existed. Your presentation and oration style is perfect. Thank you for making these! Keep it up!
Bro. Using two transform effects to re-angle something that's limited to one axis? That's genius! Transform has always been one of my favorite effects due to all the weird stuff you can do with it. Just got even better!
Minimax is awesome! Love seeing how this with with motion graphics. I’ve used Min then Max or max then min for VFX applications throughout the years. It’s good for removing blemishes or painting out small things inside the frame. I know it’s not graphics related but useful non the less. Btw binging you right now 😆
This is fantastic! I have been trying to add another offset that makes it look like the text extrudes the other way (imagine the text on a surface and growing upwards). Havent managed to nail it yet though!
Hi Jake, I've tried this and after saving the effect as a Preset and applying it to a text layer, I have seen an error -- the shadow is slightly offset from the original shape. Do you know what to do?
Thanks a lot! This is really cool! But I was trying to apply a long shadow effect to text and shapes and ran into a rotation offset problem. Is there any way out of this situation?
Big congrats on your channel - I wish you all the best showing uses for these effects. If i was Adobe I would have the effect mouseover link to these videos. Being an AE user for 20 years I have used most of these effects before but I have rejected a ton over time for third party things. Your videos show me I should use some of these again as they are often more useful than they appear.
Where did you learn after effects? I mean so deeply. Are there secret schools or adobe exclusive lessons? I mean, no RU-vid channel is gonna teach me that level of understanding right?
"The Minimax effect assigns each channel of a pixel the minimum or maximum value for that channel found within a specified radius." WHAT?? It's almost like they wrote the AE User Guide to confuse people. Don't they want users to actually know how their software works? I never would've known what half these effects are even for without this series, and I've been using AE professionally for over 10 years.
Oh boy, the set matte effect really annoys me too and I wish they would improve it. Particularly when resizing/animating the referenced layer, how it doesn't effect the matte itself. Really annoying & stupid. I know a standard layer matte mode would do the trick, but once you need to matte multiple layers from the same layer it becomes a right pita and gets messy quick.
I actually hadn't learned that technique before designing the title, but I definitely would if I made it now. The minimax technique renders much more quickly and uses a lot less effects than the technique I used.
