Animation: face features reacting to Duik tools
All right so I'm animating a horse like creature with duik tools but I'm not sure how to get my face features to react along with the movement of the body. For instance I have the horse bring it's head...
View ArticleNeed advice to further reduce jitteriness in short photo animation
What I have done so far: In After Effects:• Imported photo from Photoshop• Animated its position from toes to head on the Timeline • Rendered at Best Settings from within AE. Result too jerky, almost...
View ArticleNeed help creating a 3d logo in AE CS6
Hello, My name is Stephanie and I'm trying to make a logo for a friend of mine in After Effects CS6. I have only been using this program for about a month so I still do not know everything about it,...
View ArticleIs there a way to make the audio preview whenyou hold Control and slide the...
Hello, Is there a way to make it so that the audio preview that happens when you hold Control as you slide the Current Time Indicator handle is the default, so that you don't have to hold Control every...
View ArticleWeird zoom problem with Wacom Intuos 3 tablet.
Hello. This is strange: If I hover my pen between 1/2" to around 2", the composition window zooms out. I've tried disabling the touch strip and express keys in the Wacom settings. The Ink app is off so...
View ArticleTurbulent displace help CS6
Hey everyone, I'm trying to do an effect with words coming out of a coffee cup and onto the screen. I'm looking for a "tornado-like" look when they leave the cup and for them to end up normal once they...
View ArticleAfter Effects & Premiere
After Effects n00b here. Seeking to learn and improve. But at the outset of my journey I have some confusion, already. Just like Illustrator and InDesign have functionality overlap, so do After Effects...
View ArticleHelp with effect.
http://youtu.be/YWyHZNBz6FE Can anyone please help me figure out which effect is being used in Adobe After Effects at 2:50 and 2:55. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
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Pre-composed layers not consistantly casting shadows?
So. I've been trowling through th interwebs for an answer and it appears a lot of people have come accross similar issues yet I am still to solve my little hiccup. I have a bunch of 3D layers sitting...
View Article"Unknown BIB error", anybody ever actually fix this?
So I haven't used AE for about a year. I have V7 but had installed a trial of CS5.5 and that has expired so I uninstalled it. But V7 is now telling me "After Effects warning: Unknown BIB Error, Invalid...
View ArticleAfter Effects Comp fps settings
Hi, I have shot some 240 fps footage and When I import it ot After Effects, I have notices that the fastest the Comp can use is 99 fps which makes the footage render our at 2.5 times slower than...
View Articleunable to render projects on the last day of free trial
hi. during my 30 days of AE CS6 trial i managed to render several projects without any issues whatsoever. Yesterday was the last day of the trial. I wanted to export my last project (durationn ~25...
View ArticleRelease date for new updates
I'm super excited about the new features, especially the integration of C4D and AE, and adding looks in Premiere. I've looked for information about release dates but can't find any details. What's the...
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create a 1440 x 1080 comp
Hi, I need to create a 1440 x 1080 comp which is the same dimentional size of my video.I tried to create a new comp and dragged my video to new comp icon, what I get is not a 16:9 aspect ratio. The...
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Best way to animate this graphic?
Hi everyone, I'm brand new to AE, though I'm very familiar with other products in the Adobe suite. Attached is an image I'm working on animating, I want each line to draw at a different speed from left...
View ArticleEfficiently Create a Cube Rolling In
I did this quickly (relatively quickly anyway) to get close to the effect that I'm going for. I'd like to have the cube roll in the three words seperately. There's got to be an easier way than trying...
View Articleno shadows with gradient
I have a shape with a 4 colour gradient on it but it wont accept shadows unless i turn off the gradient. Is there a way to have shadows on this shape and keep the gradient as well?
View ArticleThe Timeline and You (I mean me).
OK . . . Hacking my way through the After Effects jungle here . . . but don't understand how there's not a main timeline. I come from Flash, which has a main base timeline you throw all your animations...
View ArticleColors in an image comes out different after rendering comp
Hey guys, having an annoying problem. For a project, I've imported a jpeg file that I made on Photoshop. The colors look perfectly fine on the RAM previews and stuff but after I render it, just that...
View ArticleCan I set adaptive resolution to OFF as the default ?
Hi - I turn off adaptive resolution (fast previews) as a matter of course but it seems that I have to do this specifically for every composition window. The default is apparently for adaptive...
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