Adobe After Effects is one of the leading applications to create video animation for TV broadcasting, DVD, and video production, not only inside Adobe products but also among other video animation tools in the market. The advantage of using learning After Effects to create animation is that you can easily create great animation using the effects and presets inside Adobe After Effects, and you can dig into After Effects tools to get more out of these tools.

Basically, After Effects more specialized in TV and offline video production such as cinema production and Flash is more concerned with the web animation, but both applications have melted together to allow each other to produce content to both offline and online media. On the other hand,   Adobe After Effects integrates with Photoshop and Flash to allow create more create content and give more capabilities for the design to create new animation and video ideas. For example, you can apply effects and presets on Flash animation by importing it to After Effects.

As mentioned above, working with Adobe After Effects requires deep understanding for After Effects tools and features. However, the best understanding is through practice different tips and tutorials. Here are some useful After Effects tutorials in both articles and video tutorials to create famous video effects.

Animated Swirls in Adobe After Effects

Create animation for the commonly used swirl animation in After Effects fast and easy with few steps.

Disintegration

Build a furious procedural Disintegration effect in AE and use displacement, turbulence and particle world.

Scene Re-Lighting

Use normal-map to relight 3d scenes in AE and use the advanced lighting, reflection & Refraction

Lightning Strike

Add Rain & Atmosphere then build a Lightning Bolt and use Action Essentials 2 and make Sam explode

Smoke Trails

Create realistic smoke trails with Particular particles and create a randomize the look of a cloud texture with 3d turbulence

3D Ball Dispersion

Create a ball transition effect with CC Ball action and use multiple layers to cascade the effect sequentially.

After Effects CS4 Cartoon Effects

This tutorial creates cartoon lines effect on video animation in After Effects.

Animated Handwriting in After Effects

Use this amazing effect in After Effects to create handwriting effect.

Flaming Chrome Text in After Effects

This tutorial each you how to create a flaming text effect .

Animate Paint in After Effects

Learn how to create paint animation through this video tutorial in After Effects.

After Effects: Jumbotron Column

In this extended tutorial learn how to identify the field order of footage and interpret it collectly; create a realistic Jumbotron-style look using CC Ball Action, Glow, Levels and Curves; turn the jumbotron into a 3D column mounted on grungy wire mesh using Zaxwerks 3D Layer Warps

After Effects: Spray Paint and Bullet Holes

How to create grunge text  animation effect in Adobe After Effects.

After Effects: Holomatrix

In this Adobe After Effects walkthrough learn how Red Giant Holomatrix was used to give grungy 3D text a dynamic sci-fi look.

Animate Rain Shadows in After Effects

This tutorials lets you create a rain shadow animation.

The Pusher

This video tutorials creates a watery liquid push effect and color corrects the shot using the bundled Color Finesse plug-in.

Creating The 007 Intro

In this video tutorial,Michael Park shows you how to achieve that classic introduction to all of the James Bond films using only basic After Effects plugins.

Related topics you may like to read

• What’s New in Adobe After Effects CS4
• Programming Flash AS3 Buttons for AIR Video Tutorial
• Flash Downunder – The Deco Tool
• Aligning Images in Photoshop CS4
• New Video Tutorials at Graphic Mania, All Video, All Free!!
• MLB.com drops Silverlight and use Adobe Flash
• What’s New in Adobe Photoshop CS4 – Let’s have a 3D
• THE CS4-DAY
• Creative COW After Effects Tutorials – Super Tight Junk Mattes
• About Adobe Flash Player 10

Go to Source