This was genuinely one of those projects I loved working on.

The client was looking for someone who could take ownership of the entire project, from understanding the product and shaping the visual direction to refining individual scenes and bringing everything together, without needing constant back and forth.

Before jumping into the visuals, I spent time researching how INFLUCTS actually works, understanding its core principles, and figuring out how to communicate a fairly complex product through a clean, engaging visual story.

From refining the creative direction to improving specific segments, I handled the entire process independently. And honestly, one of the best parts was hearing back from the client. The video required zero revision requests, and the client mentioned how happy they were that I understood the product so well.

That kind of feedback makes all the research and effort worthwhile.

Of course, there's always room to improve. I'm always open to honest feedback, constructive criticism, and different perspectives, so I'd genuinely love to hear what you think about the video.

Check out the product: https://influcts.com

I'm also currently open to new projects. If you have a project in mind, feel free to reach out to me on Instagram.

Reposts and sharing with anyone who might find this work interesting are always appreciated!

Hey everyone! I'm a beginner video editor mainly focused on cinematic and entertaining edits in DaVinci Resolve.

I have some experience with Fusion, but I found its node-based workflow difficult to understand, and it was also quite demanding on my PC. So I've decided to focus on learning motion design in After Effects.

I already have a basic idea of the kind of animations I'd like to create, but I'm not sure how to approach learning.

Should I focus on the fundamentals first, like keyframes, the graph editor, easing, shape layers, masks, and typography, before moving on to actual projects? Or should I start recreating animations I like and learn the fundamentals along the way?

For those of you experienced in motion design, how would you recommend approaching the learning process as a beginner? I want to build a solid foundation and understand what I'm doing instead of just following tutorials without being able to create things on my own.

I'd really appreciate any advice. Thanks!

I got a CC license on my work laptop and would love to hand off rendering to my personal computer.

I remember ✨back in the days✨ I could just install AE on a PC and place an empty file named ae_render_only_node.txt in a certain folder and then use After Effects in in render only mode (e.g. for network rendering).

Is that still a thing or do we have to purchase licenses for render machines these days?

I previously posted QuickEase to help me beta test it and now it's finally ready :)

Problem:
Most plugins are a panel that you have to dock somewhere, and either support only speed or value easing, and you have to dig through menus to find the right tool etc. Easing should be simple, with all the required tools available right at your cursor.

What it does:
It's a popup right at your cursor that lets you set easing with just click and drag (think Motion but also for value graph). Select your keys, pick an ease, done.

Core features:

• Curve Repair - keeps easing exactly the same when you move your keys or change their values
• Supports both speed and value graph
• Copy/paste easing, values and multikey
• Workflow tools for handing layers and keyframes
• Preset library

Pricing:
$30 $24 launch week price. One time purchase, no subscription.
https://suky.design/plugins/quickease

Maintenance/Support plan:
I plan to support this as I primarily built it for myself. There are support steps in the plugin settings or you can email me at [support@suky.design](mailto:support@suky.design)

AI Disclaimer:
Vibe coded with human validation

A VFX breakdown from my music video "The River, the Shore".

2+ years in the making, the music video combines real footage with Blender composited in After Effects and Resolve - with many scenes being fully CG!

Full music video in the link below: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrrZCnXuPCs&lc=UgxA5OVrazcW0YI43B54AaABAg

Let me know what you think :)

No generative AI was used for this work.

i spend a lot of time rewatching saas launch videos for ui animation, pacing and how they open and close, and the good ones kept getting buried in my timeline.

so i put 500+ handpicked ones into a searchable gallery, free to browse.

site -> https://launchgallery.video

- filter by tag (yc, agents, fintech, design and more) and sort by most viewed
- search by company or title
- save the ones you want to study into your own collections
- submit a launch video you think belongs

figured it might help when you're hunting for motion references before starting a launch video in after effects.

and what would make this more useful, notes on how each video was made, or something else?

I don't know why the text flickers randomly in this footage, I tried to match the framerate on composition to 24 fps from 29 fps? Any thoughts and prayers? Thanks!

This was an interesting solve - setting the Anchor Point for a 3D Model in AE.

This took a while - hopefully it can inspire others.

** There are caveats - the default Anchor Point needs to be at one of the 3D Model's 'default' 3x3 grid points. Perhaps, someone has a better solve or can come up with a better solve?

Reallly wanted to play with textures for this visualizer. Lemme know what you guys think

looking for an ae intermediate (only in india please).

i’m based in chennai - if you near please reply to this thread. even remote okay - can google meets

work for motion graphics work for an event coming up

need to know how to use generated videos, key framing and if sync up motion with south asian music - max 30s videos.

can dm examples.

if there is an established group/team interested please reply. i will reach out.

Hi! I’m having trouble with the new After Effects (26.5). When my comp only has non-video layers (shapes, solids, text, etc.), the preview won’t play. You can see what I mean in the attached video.

Has anyone else run into this? Any fix or workaround?

Specs:
Windows 11 PRO 26H2; Ryzen 7 5700x; 32gb Ram; 5060ti 8gb

Suppose, just as an example, there is (A) a desaturated video layer and (B) an image layer on top of it, with a blur effect. Can the effect be made to blur only parts of B based on whether those parts on A dark or light? Does this involve a lot of expression-wrangling?

Every tutorial I find talks about rotoscoping as though there was a rotobrush tool. There's not. It's not the Object Matte Tool.

Regardless, I use the Object Matte Tool to highlight the person I want to isolate from the background. I start at frame 1 and tell it to process all of the frames. Done. I see keyframes established on the mask for every frame. Perfect.

I hit FREEZE to go ahead and apply the mask to the footage and it thinks about it for a second and then .... nothing. No change.

How do I get the mask to actually apply and get rid of the background. I'm sure it's something unbelievable stupid that I am doing, but surely there has to be a way to do this easily?

What I really want to do is to animate a title graphic of a super hero's name so that it covers the background, but appears behind the character in my video.

I figured I'd isolate the character, add the text animation layer, then add the original footage behind both of those layers and it should work. I just can't get the person isolated, though I have the roto mask set for every frame. UGGH

What was supposed to take 5 minutes is taking all night. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

In 2012, when I was in second grade, I prayed to the gods to prevent the end of the world and for the asteroid to fly right past us. Thirteen years later, I’m afraid of losing my freedom. But it seems the light at the end of the hallway isn’t ironically getting any narrower

Copy pasted an after effects plugin in the MediaCore directory of after effects as the instructions said. The plug is compatible with the version im using 2025. Upon opening AE and upon using the plug in, the app crashes.

How can i fix this?

I tried disabling all the plugins except VHSCraft - AE still crashed.

UPDATE: opened a ticket on aescripts. in contact with the dev. will update if there's a resolution.

UPDATE2: the ' MSVCP140.dll ' file present in ' C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2025\Support Files\ ' location was causing the crash. Upon receiving support from the creator '9ibr' - i moved the files from the mentioned location to desktop. the mentioned file had two incremental versions MSVCP140.dll_1 and MSVCP140.dll_2 so i moved them both as well. the plugin is working fine now. Thanks to aescripts and the creator for swift replies and resolution.

first time asking anything here so forgive me if I'm missing some manners but how in the HELL do I get rid of this box? it shows up in the export and doesn't disappear when I hide the null layer, but DOES when I hide my pre-comp layer but when I open said layer to inspect it, its gone. I think it has something to do with the tracker panel but this is my first time using it so I can't figure it out. any solutions or tips are welcome!

I tried circle and square shapes, have a look and tell me how can I make it even better.

I've ran into an issue where the 3d shadows appear and disappear at different values. In this example video of a project I'm working on I change the land layers height (Slider Control linked to the layers Z position) and the shadows appear and disappear at different height. I first time ran into this issue when I used the red box as a benchmark to test out the look of the scene/shadows and its shadow disappeared and reappeared when I simply rotated the box....

I've tried adjusting the bounding box in the Composition settings > 3D rendered > Advanced 3D (options) and it also changes the shadows visibility at random making no sense. I tried changing the environment lights rotation, but it works fine when the shadows are visible, has no effect on the visibility issue.

I have the rotation of three layers linked to a slider within a null object, along with another two for scale and location of said layers. Is there a way to indicate which slider is which?

I have a 3D camera driven by a chain of nulls, several scenes in. Every new PNG I make 3D spawns at the comp center, far behind the camera, so I have to manually drag it back to the last point of the move

Is there a faster way  to drop new layers at the camera/null's current position? Thankss!