After Effects Tutorials

A Displacement Map effect changes the position (displaces) of pixels either horizontally or vertically or both, based upon the grey-scale or luma values in a separate reference layer.

Original (left), Displacement Map (background) applied (right)
Using a displacement map
- Create a new Composition and place a still image or your movie footage onto a layer. (I created […]

Usually when you’re keying blue or green screen you really only want one particular subject or object on screen and the rest of the background is redundant. So you usually create a rough matte or mask around that subject restricting the area to only where the action that you want is taking place. We call […]

The Difference Matte effect creates a transparency a mask or a matte by comparing the pixels in a source layer with the pixel in a defined difference layer, and then keying out (eliminating) pixels in the source layer that match both the position and color in the difference layer. It is usually used to key […]

So using Animate a stroke path tutorial as our starting point. We will now look at adding echo effects.
- Create New Composition and create a new solid.
- Add a bezier path to the solid (this is the path that your stroke will follow) and add Stroke Effect to the solid.

- In the Stroke Effects Panel
set […]

After you get the hang of this technique, it can be used for all types of write-on and playful effects.
- Create a new composition to your desired dimensions and duration (Composition/New Composition)
- Create a new solid the same as comp size, color is not important (Layer/New/Solid)
- Select the pen tool from the toolbar menu at […]