My Adobe Premiere tips were quite a hit, so today I have four super easy expressions to get you started using your first After Effects expressions TODAY!Īt the very least, you should know what expressions are capable of doing, so you can call on an expert when streamlining a process might save you hours of work. To many filmmakers, looking at lines of code may not feel “creative,” but film production attracts people with artistic and technical minds, so I think with me guiding the way you can imagine how these tools can help make our work better and faster. You can find some less advanced material on my resources page, and an introduction to using VFX in small budget films in this lecture. If you’ve just gotten comfortable in After Effects, adding expressions can be an intimidating step – if you aren’t yet comfortable in After Effects, it’s double scary 🙂Īfter Effects is animation and visual effects software sold as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. Even when my visual effects and motion graphics skills became pretty advanced, I had memorized only a handful of tricks and was hesitant to venture out.
I put off learning After Effects expressions for years.
