40 Amazing After Effects Tutorials

Creating stunning effects has never been easier thanks to the masses of functionality available in Adobe After Effects.

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And best of all, you don't need to be an Oscar-winning effects specialist to fashion impressive video. To help you generate truly professional effects, however, we've rooted around the back of the internet and found 40 fantastic tutorials that will help you take your After Effects skills to the next level.

 

1. Boxing promo walkthrough

2. Advanced car hit

3. Learn how to create an advanced Jumper effect

4. Create an elegantly handwritten text reveal

5. Create a split-flap type display

6. Smoke trails

7. Lightning strike

8. Lightning explosion part 2

9. Time freeze

10. Cinematic opening title redux

11. Basic match moving with PFhoe

12. Reflective and refractive glass block tutorial

13. Build a car racing scene from photographs

14. The pusher

15. 3D ledge

16. Creating a holographic interface effect

17. Creating a music to light effect

18. Alphabet soup (fake text particles)

19. Text reveal (efficient method)

20. Tear it up

21. Track your golf form like a master

22. Meteor crash 3D

23. Energy

24. Get blown away with an explosive corridor blast

25. Basic footage coloring and object removal - Basix

26. Dynamic bar graphs

27. 3D credit roll

28. Become a storm chaser

29. Boharg II breakdown - Basix

30. Drifting title sequence

31. Running man

32. Animate your logo into characters

33. Introducing the Centrica Carnivale

34. Teleportation tutorial

35. Sci-fi sphere from the movie 'The Day The Earth Stood Still'

36. Kung fu energy ball

37. Demon face warp

38. Light streaks 2

39. Put together a realistic District 9 composite

40. Create a jelly-like text animation in Cinema 4D and After Effects