r/AfterEffects • • 6h ago

OC - Stuff I made DEP — Brand Animation & Motion Design

40 Upvotes

A motion design piece for DEP, exploring its visual identity through animated brand elements, including a box, a roll-up banner, and a book with turning pages.
The page transitions form the letter E from the DEP logo, bringing the brand identity into the animation itself.


r/AfterEffects • • 17h ago

Explain This Effect How to recreate this AR iPhone Effect

164 Upvotes

I just saw this weird AR iPhone Filter and thought: how do I recreate this effects?

In head it's some sort of:

masking the hand > Echo > Turbulent displace> Vector blur > Colorama > Blend mode type magic..

But unfortunately that's not how it works. Maybe you guys can figure it out?

Source:

https://www.threads.com/share/_rIAUe9C0/


r/AfterEffects • • 14h ago

OC - Stuff I made My first lyrics video in after effects

54 Upvotes

r/AfterEffects • • 1h ago

Beginner Help After Effects crashes at start up (AfterFX.exe)

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I'm using after effects 2024, every time I open the application, it would pop up this error message. It was working fine yesterday until today.

I've seen post about deleting plug-ins but I have none at all, so I'm not sure what could be affecting this. Help would be heavily appreciated


r/AfterEffects • • 4h ago

Beginner Help Check out my animation pre-compositing with Miyamoto Musashi

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r/AfterEffects • • 7h ago

EPILEPSY WARNING How do you achieve this impact frame? Spoiler

1 Upvotes

I've tried the following
- Hand-draw it (the lines)
from here, I tried to mask it out but it didnt work
-Searched up what effects were used
-Asked ChatGPT to identify the entire impact frame
-Asked my experienced friends how to do it.

None of it worked, so help here would be really nice!!


r/AfterEffects • • 10h ago

Beginner Help AEUX can't send figma selection to after effects

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I tried uninstalling and reimporting the plugin on figma. I also downloaded the latest version of the aeux plugin again. With less complex files (1st image), i was able to send the figma selections. I was unsuccessful with more complex files (e.g. 2nd image).


r/AfterEffects • • 1d ago

OC - Stuff I made Still a work in progress. Would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions so far!

32 Upvotes

Still a work in progress. Would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions so far!


r/AfterEffects • • 21h ago

Discussion Audio is clipped in AE timeline but not in Audition

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The music track is clipping on the timeline (not just the export) in AE:

Clipped waveform in After Effects

The levels are set at 0 in AE. When I reduce the levels, the waveform just gets shorter but still flat on top as if the problem is in the audio file, but opening that same file it Audition show it isn't clipped.
In Audition, after zooming out one click, it looks like this:

Not clipped in Audition

I tried exporting from Audition as a WAV file and it still comes into After Effects (and Premiere) as clipped. In AE,
I updated my video card driver and it didn’t help. My specs are Win 11 Pro 25H2 (26200.9711), i9-14900K, 192 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you!


r/AfterEffects • • 1d ago

Beginner Help Is there a plugin like MaskPNGscatter but for multiple layers?

3 Upvotes

Instead of one layer repeated hundreds of times I have hundreds of unique layers I need this same effect applied to ^~^

Attempted to find something similar on aescripts and older posts but no luck yet.


r/AfterEffects • • 23h ago

Discussion How do you actually study motion you love?

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When you see a title sequence, from a Vox transition, or edit that blows you away, what do you do next?

Curious what your real process looks like, and what's the most annoying part of it.


r/AfterEffects • • 2d ago

Beginner Help MOtion design for canva | need feedback on this motion design

65 Upvotes

I’m sharing my motion design project and would appreciate honest feedback and suggestions. I’m still learning and trying to improve, so feel free to point out what works, what doesn’t, and what I could do better in terms of animation, timing, transitions, and overall visual quality. All constructive criticism is welcome!


r/AfterEffects • • 23h ago

Beginner Help I reinstalled, deleted my plugins, turned off MFR, and Deleted All Cache

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This has been bugging me for 2 days. I cant finish work because of this issue. Ive searched and tried multiple fixes, none worked.

Ryzen 7 5700x
RTX5060
DDR4 32GB Ram

After Effects 2026


r/AfterEffects • • 1d ago

OC - Stuff I made Yaango App Motion Design – Looking for Honest Feedback and Suggestions

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Made this motion design for Yaango. Would love some honest feedback and suggestions on what I could improve!


r/AfterEffects • • 1d ago

OC - Stuff I made "Three Rooms" short-animation (digital + analog)

11 Upvotes

This multidisciplinary project made by Me, Witchgaze and Meljiiit is dedicated to our curiosity about different media approaches. As well as creating a feeling of otherworldly curiosity & childhood nostalgia

we were making clothes out of carton + paper, creating music, constructing rooms, making animations, writing letters, working with aerograph and lots of other materials all together. special thanks to Rayden Vision for the crt

a week in Rīga - collaboration round 2 - 3 čelovečka

I look forward to hearing your comments, thoughts, and questions. I'm here right now to answer them all <3333


r/AfterEffects • • 1d ago

OC - Stuff I made Warrior Dreams: A Visual Haiku (critiques encouraged)

5 Upvotes

First After Effects project made for my Digital Animation Techniques class in college. Any feedback or critique is greatly encouraged! Thank you!


r/AfterEffects • • 2d ago

OC - Stuff I made Update: Finished Mixed Media video. [First time making a mixed media animation in After Effects — looking for feedback]

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Hi everyone! I've finally finished my first mixed media animation in After Effects. It’s a recap video of my trip to Spain. I've tried to follow your advice on the old post, and i wanted to share the final result. Let me know your opnion. Hope you enjoy it!

Link to the old post: https://www.reddit.com/r/AfterEffects/comments/1wtae81/comment/pcx4kfb/?screen_view_count=2


r/AfterEffects • • 1d ago

Beginner Help Someone Please Help Me With Scrubbing

0 Upvotes

So i switched to after effects 2025 and the preview is smooth but scrubbing is insanely laggy. I even have a video if anyone wants to see how it looks like.


r/AfterEffects • • 1d ago

OC - Stuff I made Is anyone hiring for SaaS animation

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I recently put together this product promo for Arpixa, an agency workspace I'm building.

I focused on the UI reveals, transitions, typography and making the software feel like a polished product rather than a generic screen recording.

I'd appreciate honest feedback, especially on the pacing, visual hierarchy and whether the product comes across clearly.

What would you improve first?


r/AfterEffects • • 1d ago

Beginner Help How is this square shaped hold keyframe created?

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For the second layer, there is a square-shaped hold key frame that I couldn't replicate.

I turned this keyframe back into a diamond, then clicked toggle hold keyframe. It just turned into a one sided hold key frame (flat on the right side, pointed on the left side). Tried to ask AI and search through reddit and couldn't find an answer.


r/AfterEffects • • 2d ago

Tutorial 2D Halloween Cat Animation | After Effects Tutorial

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r/AfterEffects • • 1d ago

Beginner Help Please help.. issue with colour space..

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I am creating a project for a client i mistakenly used hlg 2100 color space in premiere pro and dynamically linked some footages to after effects with the same color space. Now i changed the color space back to rec 709 in both after effects and premiere pro but it caused the dynamic linked footage in premiere oversaturated. In after effects the footage are looking fine. I fixed the issue by selecting the linked footage in pp and clicking on interpreter footage and converting them from hlg to rec 709. But there are 100 comps do i have to select them all and fix individually?


r/AfterEffects • • 2d ago

OC - Stuff I made Honest feedback on my motion design portfolio, website and branding?

2 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

I’m a motion designer currently job hunting, and I’d really appreciate some honest feedback on my portfolio:

brankovlahov.com

I’d love to hear what you think about the work itself—animation quality, pacing, variety, and whether the reel and selected projects show my skills well. Are there any pieces that stand out, or anything you’d improve or leave out?

I’m also looking for feedback on the website and personal branding/logo. Does it feel professional, and is the work easy to find and watch from a potential employer’s or client’s perspective?

Feel free to be brutally honest. I’m looking to improve, so constructive criticism is very welcome. 😄 Thanks for taking a look!


r/AfterEffects • • 2d ago

Beginner Help 3D Logo Lighting which adjusts based on the camera movement

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Need help in relighting the logo to match the environment and change as the cam pushes forward.

The footage is a drone push in and I have done the tracking part pretty well but the 3D logo looks too plain. I want it to be metallic and shiny with a bit of glow so that it fits well with the camera push in. The logo is a glb file and I've added a metallic texture (0.25) to it already but it ain't looking good enough.

I've tried parallel lights and a studio environment light layer but it ain't that good. The screenshot shows how it looks with 2 parallel lights facing on it.

Any yt tutorial or documentation regarding this would help a lot. Thank you :)


r/AfterEffects • • 2d ago

Job/Gig Hiring I'm looking for someone make my image animated.

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Hello.

I just finished to made my chat box for my twitch but the image isn't moving look a bit boring.. i'm looking for some to help me add some glow effects and tiny animations.

If someone is available to help me my DM is open.

Thanks a lot