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Hacky After Effects Tricks to Improve Your Renders

School of Motion via YouTube

Overview

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Discover 10 quick and effective After Effects tricks to enhance your renders in this 42-minute video tutorial. Learn time-saving techniques sourced from the Twitter community, including adding lens flares, applying diffusion, incorporating grain, creating chromatic aberration, using lens blur and distortion, adding vignettes, implementing wiggle effects, zooming techniques, applying textures, animating on twos, and roughening edges. Gain practical skills to improve your motion design workflow and achieve better results in less time. Access a free 10-day introductory motion design course and explore the original Twitter thread for additional insights.

Syllabus

Intro
Add a Lens Flare
Diffusion on a Bduet
Grain it Up!
Chromatic Aberration FTW
Lens Blur
Lens Distortion
Ye Old Vignette
Wiggle It, Just a Little Bit
Zoomie Zoom
Texture for no Reason
Throw it on twos!
Roughen those Edges

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School of Motion

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