I highly appreciate you took the time to elaborate what every effect is doing in general and not just what numbers to put in. This is SO important for the learning process and many tutorials skip that part. thank you very much for the video. I feel I am a better designer now.
At last a tutor that doesn't just march through a series of instructions and takes time to explain the theory behind the After Effects tools. Great tutorial, very helpful thank you : )
Love this tutorial. Doing great looking stuff by being smart with simple effects and keyframing. Every step is clear and it sparks a million ideas. Just how a tutorial should be!
Thanks for the great tutorials. You're the only AfterEffects dude on TH-cam that actually explains what things do, and it's awesome. Keep doin' what you're doin', Evan.
I absolutely love you for this. I can't express enough how amazing you are as a teacher. To the point, easy to understand, concise and thorough and always entertaining (which makes 20 mins seem like 5). So glad you made the leap away from Premium Beat for your own following. THANK YOU!!!!
in case you're really pressed for time and zooming through several tutorials like i was when i made this comment. i had to make an effect similar to this and was feverishly searching YT for help. i know i'm not the only one who does this. plus - you can always come back to the video and watch the whole thing. i don't know why this comment was so controversial. i like ECAbrams and watch his vids all the way through as well, but sometimes you need those extra few minutes for your deadline! let those who have never scrambled for a solution at the last minute throw the first stone, jeez.
This is a great tutorial. I really like how you explain the process in an open way rather then just making something and having to follow step by step. I feel like It's more open to interpretation of use rather then just a paint by numbers tutorial. great also fun hosting.
it is so much fun to learn after effects from a Canadian Seth Rogen. i hope im not the first one of tell you that. thank you for all the amazing and punny tutorials Evan. really appreciate it
+NonHelicoptere I believe I pronounce "about" much the same as everyone I am conversing with on a daily basis. It seems as normal to me as I am sure your pronunciation sounds normal to you.
Exactly what I was after. New to using AE and this was a tutorial that helped me learn the tool better outside of just the one trick of the moment I was searching on- while still being succinct and pro and amusing. Many many thanks!!
OMG I've been searching for this effect for a long time. I'll walk through all channel to learn more effects. (It's a little difficult to find the effects in my Chinese version of AE LOL it took me so long) Thanks for sharing.
Not only your tutorials are informative, they are also fun to watch! I am laughing hard ... :D "if only i knew an effect ... ohhh wait I do" :D Thanks for sharing!
Adjustment layer above your shapes + Fast box blur + Curves, Alpha, Hard graph - tone down adjustment layer transparency, tweak blur amount and curve graph till the liquid effect is crisp and keeping your shapes to the same size as originals. Turn up opacity to 100%. Throw in a Transform layer, play with scale, CC composite back original, to get little droplets behind your main shape movements. Also time echo can work.
Great tutorial- fun to listen to- Evan, I love how much fun you have with this and don't take yourself too seriously. I actually want to do a tutorial video on cell division, and this was (almost) just the thing. The problem is that I want to do this with a different fill color than the stroke color, and that creates problems. Instead of the cell dividing in the middle, one kind of hatches out of the other. I applied trim paths to each circle and then offset the start and end, adding keyframes in the process to tighten it up a bit (I was pretty proud of myself for figuring this out- I'm pretty much an AE beginner) but it doesn't look as good as I'd like. Any suggestions?
Great tutorial, man. I'm sometimes tasked to do biological animations and this technique will come in super handy for animating bacteria multiplication.
You can do a effect like this more simple but with minor level of control. Just need to use a gaussian blur and level effect in a adjustment layer and boom!! you have liquid effect, precompose and change the color or whatever you want. :) Great tutorial by the way. Thanks for the knowledge.
No but really, you deffinitely know how to teach! If you have some sort of paid individual classes, let me know, I dont mind paying for classes of this quality.
Thanks for saying so. Actually, individual classes will be a thing coming very soon. I'll be tweeting the details shortly, once the booking system is live.
Excellent. I did the same thing with a blur and choke but it wasn’t sticky enough. Adding the middle rectangle makes all the difference. And wow... did roughen edges grow up or what. I remember it as some lame filter from photoshop 3.
Another gem! Your tutorials are always extremely helpful. Thank you for explaining Roughen Edges so well -- I will be using those tricks for many many applications. Will also be using the dividing "cells" effect in my movie. I would like to suggest a tutorial: how to fake the "Hyperlapse" effect using video footage.
Hi at 7:30 you edit the speed, you select all but still have to move two handles. Mine is doing the same thing, but why do they not all move together when you have them all selected? By the way, fun and informative tutorial as usual. Thanks.
Hi Evan, loved this tutorial, keep up the great work! Very well explained and easy to understand and follow :) Just one question, (a bit off topic), I was wondering what camera you used to record the introduction to this video. It looked very good quality and I'm looking into buying a decent camera for making videos and just wondering what sort of cameras other people use. Thanks!
Oh man, I recently started editing again and I was looking through your tutorials when I realize the latest video was 3 months ago. I thought you quit youtube and for a second I felt sad because your way of explaination is the best. BUT- NOW THAT YOUR BACK HERE ARE MY TUTORIAL SUGGESTIONS- Something with flames POTATOES cucumber? but seriously, do you do any 3D stuff? Would love to learn some of that. :D
Adi Sharma I don't care for 3d stuff. And I believe that 3d is best left to c4d or some other dedicated program. I've really spent my days getting deep into Ae and it has left little time for other programs.
This is just amazing!! I'd love to know how to do the filling. Because I'm a mess and I can't figure it out as I'd like. Thank you for all your knowledge you are giving us !!!
Love the tutorial. Thanks a million! What about if I wanted the result of my animation just being outlined white in the end? So no filling but only outline.
There are a few methods to get edges of things. You might use the find edges effect for example. But, depending on how clean of a look you're after, that might not work. You can put edges on any layer with the layer styles. You might even create this kind of effect entirely inside a shape layer using offsets that could have a stroke as the outline. Do those ideas get you started?
I might subscribe just for the awareness of the unimportance of your work. Or maybe it's the self-loathing channeled through the task of creating splitting cells, realizing that is how you started as a life form. Either way great stuff, thank you.
sorry for not on the topic.. i watched your Infinite Door Animation in After Effects tutorial, i repeated step by step like you and it is perfect, but when i tried of myself idea like etc,scaling up and down circle (instead of opening door) it animates weird,mix , apparently due cycle expression and layer beginning position , and i dont know how move next layers that doest weird animation , please can you do tutorial about this , for perfect set up these things for perfect animation.Thanks.
I followed along all the steps but my square still looks square with the roughen edge effect and doesn't have that nice curve to the separation... any help >~
I highly appreciate you took the time to elaborate what every effect is doing in general and not just what numbers to put in. This is SO important for the learning process and many tutorials skip that part. thank you very much for the video. I feel I am a better designer now.
At last a tutor that doesn't just march through a series of instructions and takes time to explain the theory behind the After Effects tools. Great tutorial, very helpful thank you : )
Seriously one of the best tutorials I've ever watched. High quality thorough, informative, entertaining. Thanks for contributing.
OMG man! the way you explain all the effect properties is so clarifying. That video worth the subscription. CONGRATS FROM BARCELONA!
6 years later and still an AMAZING video! Thank you!
Love this tutorial. Doing great looking stuff by being smart with simple effects and keyframing. Every step is clear and it sparks a million ideas. Just how a tutorial should be!
+Alan Rudge glad you enjoy it.
Thanks for the great tutorials. You're the only AfterEffects dude on TH-cam that actually explains what things do, and it's awesome. Keep doin' what you're doin', Evan.
I absolutely love you for this. I can't express enough how amazing you are as a teacher. To the point, easy to understand, concise and thorough and always entertaining (which makes 20 mins seem like 5). So glad you made the leap away from Premium Beat for your own following.
THANK YOU!!!!
Superb tutorials..Please never stop doing these :)
Pratik Jain I'll try. Eventually I will die in a horrible badger related accident as foretold by a roadside fortune teller. But until then I'll try.
Haha you won't we all need you and your tutorials :)
ECAbrams
to skip directly to the tutorial, start at 3:15.
Why on my sane mind would I ever want to skip anything the amazing ECAbrams has to say???
in case you're really pressed for time and zooming through several tutorials like i was when i made this comment. i had to make an effect similar to this and was feverishly searching YT for help. i know i'm not the only one who does this. plus - you can always come back to the video and watch the whole thing. i don't know why this comment was so controversial. i like ECAbrams and watch his vids all the way through as well, but sometimes you need those extra few minutes for your deadline! let those who have never scrambled for a solution at the last minute throw the first stone, jeez.
@Carla Young uh, that comment was 2 years ago. I think she finished the job by now...
This is a great tutorial. I really like how you explain the process in an open way rather then just making something and having to follow step by step. I feel like It's more open to interpretation of use rather then just a paint by numbers tutorial. great also fun hosting.
Excellent! Then that is a mission accomplished for this channel :)
This i's literally the best tutorial I have ever watched
Evan! Your charisma and teaching skills are fascinating!
This is the most amusing tutorial I've watched (funny and enjoyable) I am watching it again and enjoying every ridiculous fractal reference.
One of the best tutorials Ive seen on here. Thank you
ECAbrams, your tutorials and dialogue are the best!
This is great, thanks. I will be following more of your lessons. The fun level just went up a few notches because of your causal approach to teaching.
This is the funniest tutorial I've ever seen with a lot of "Fractal wiiii"... ahahah! Cheers mate, awesome! Simply awesome!
Damn! Every time I look for a particular effect I need... BOOM there he is! Thanks so much.
Dude u are amazing... keep these videos coming man :)!!!
LeeToTheVi I'll try my best.
Thanks for making these tutorials! They have a really great balance of humor and useful information.
thewaffles There's information in here? News to me :) Glad you like them.
it is so much fun to learn after effects from a Canadian Seth Rogen. i hope im not the first one of tell you that. thank you for all the amazing and punny tutorials Evan. really appreciate it
+Dewang Trivedi Glad you enjoy the tutorials. Did you know that the celebrity Seth Rogen is also Canadian. He's from Vancouver on Canada's west coast.
Wow. I did not know that. Thanks for the info
feels like seth rogan is teaching me fractals in after effects. i love it.
As always, great work. I've used all those filters before but never considered stacking them the way you have. Thank you for sharing.
Good to see ya back on TH-cam!
***** It's nice to be back. Maybe I'll even post consistently this time?
your tuts are awesome! i try to catch them all. please keep doing them! would also love any kind of bigger package of tutorials you might make...
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TELLING ME ABOUT THE EDIT SPEED GRAPH. EVERY TUTORIAL MINE HAS BEEN DIFFERENT AND IVE BEEN SO CONFUSED. THANK YOU!!!
You make great tutorials brother, easy to follow, fun to watch, keep up the good work!
Amazing work! Really good tutorials, and the way you say «about» is part of the learning too.
+NonHelicoptere I believe I pronounce "about" much the same as everyone I am conversing with on a daily basis. It seems as normal to me as I am sure your pronunciation sounds normal to you.
Exactly what I was after. New to using AE and this was a tutorial that helped me learn the tool better outside of just the one trick of the moment I was searching on- while still being succinct and pro and amusing. Many many thanks!!
awesome tutorial, seriously man. fun and not alot of fluff. appreciate you putting this together!
Good to see you again!... I've been waiting for a while.
OMG I've been searching for this effect for a long time. I'll walk through all channel to learn more effects. (It's a little difficult to find the effects in my Chinese version of AE LOL it took me so long) Thanks for sharing.
best tutorial ever...keep making such great stuff man...i really liked you way of presentation
Not only your tutorials are informative, they are also fun to watch!
I am laughing hard ... :D "if only i knew an effect ... ohhh wait I do" :D
Thanks for sharing!
Thank u so much! ♡
ECA making hard things easy....or not but whatever...tutorials are great. Thank you from Argentina!
THANK YOU! actually a great tutorial. I got everything, the result is great, voice is great, and it is even fun to watch
Best tutorial person ever!
Adjustment layer above your shapes + Fast box blur + Curves, Alpha, Hard graph - tone down adjustment layer transparency, tweak blur amount and curve graph till the liquid effect is crisp and keeping your shapes to the same size as originals. Turn up opacity to 100%. Throw in a Transform layer, play with scale, CC composite back original, to get little droplets behind your main shape movements. Also time echo can work.
It's helpful, it's easy to follow and it's FUN! Trillion thanks buddy!
Great tutorial- fun to listen to- Evan, I love how much fun you have with this and don't take yourself too seriously. I actually want to do a tutorial video on cell division, and this was (almost) just the thing. The problem is that I want to do this with a different fill color than the stroke color, and that creates problems. Instead of the cell dividing in the middle, one kind of hatches out of the other. I applied trim paths to each circle and then offset the start and end, adding keyframes in the process to tighten it up a bit (I was pretty proud of myself for figuring this out- I'm pretty much an AE beginner) but it doesn't look as good as I'd like. Any suggestions?
Great tutorial, man. I'm sometimes tasked to do biological animations and this technique will come in super handy for animating bacteria multiplication.
I enjoy watching this. You're awesome. Thank you for making such a cool tutorial.
this is great tutorial. The "give me your drugs" part had me rolling. Informative and funny. keep up the great work!
Wonderful tutorial, can't wait to toy around with this! Thanks so much and keep up the great work! :)
Thanks Evan!
always fun to watch your tutorials :)
Thanks! Glad you enjoy them.
You can do a effect like this more simple but with minor level of control. Just need to use a gaussian blur and level effect in a adjustment layer and boom!! you have liquid effect, precompose and change the color or whatever you want. :)
Great tutorial by the way. Thanks for the knowledge.
No but really, you deffinitely know how to teach! If you have some sort of paid individual classes, let me know, I dont mind paying for classes of this quality.
Thanks for saying so. Actually, individual classes will be a thing coming very soon. I'll be tweeting the details shortly, once the booking system is live.
ECAbrams Welp, let me give this man a Follow.
Awesome, clear and very useful. Keep it up!
Heyy welcome back. :)
Thanks for the tutorial, its perfect. :D
Malavika Srinivasan no worries. glad you enjoy it.
thank you so much :D Very clear tutorial and I loved your funny comments during it :)
welcome back bro!!!
YOU DID...THE THIIING! lol Abrams humor is awesome!
Your tutorial is awesome！So much fun！
Tks ECAAbrams! its great and clear.
My god, your tutorials are amazing. i learned so much
well thank you kindly
I subbed because of his personality
So flippin' good. Thanks ECAbrams!
Excellent. I did the same thing with a blur and choke but it wasn’t sticky enough. Adding the middle rectangle makes all the difference. And wow... did roughen edges grow up or what. I remember it as some lame filter from photoshop 3.
Really helpful thanks! Happy holidays! :D
Another gem! Your tutorials are always extremely helpful. Thank you for explaining Roughen Edges so well -- I will be using those tricks for many many applications. Will also be using the dividing "cells" effect in my movie. I would like to suggest a tutorial: how to fake the "Hyperlapse" effect using video footage.
Excellent tutorial thank you for taking the time to do it!
+ECAbrams your way of explaining thing is so much fun and informative, thank you for doing this.
Saved my work, man. Thanks
Thanks Mr. Abrams! awesome and also entertaining as always :)
I love your humor, great tutorial!
thanks Evan. Educational and entertaining
Are you planning on doing the filling up tutorial any time soon? I would love to see that. Huge props!
Soon I think. There isn't much to it though. It's mostly about manipulating paths over time.
ECAbrams Thanks for the reply! Looking forward to see that, sounds quite interesting.
Hi at 7:30 you edit the speed, you select all but still have to move two handles. Mine is doing the same thing, but why do they not all move together when you have them all selected?
By the way, fun and informative tutorial as usual. Thanks.
AMERiNORGE that's just how they work. I think it's designed that way to prevent unwanted handle movement in times when that would be annoying.
Hi Evan, loved this tutorial, keep up the great work! Very well explained and easy to understand and follow :)
Just one question, (a bit off topic), I was wondering what camera you used to record the introduction to this video. It looked very good quality and I'm looking into buying a decent camera for making videos and just wondering what sort of cameras other people use.
Thanks!
Stan's Tech Videos It's an old Canon 60d. Not much special about it. Lots of light, EF 35mm 1.2 lens. Not much to write home about.
best youtube tutorials!!!
Oh man, I recently started editing again and I was looking through your tutorials when I realize the latest video was 3 months ago. I thought you quit youtube and for a second I felt sad because your way of explaination is the best.
BUT- NOW THAT YOUR BACK HERE ARE MY TUTORIAL SUGGESTIONS-
Something with flames
POTATOES
cucumber?
but seriously, do you do any 3D stuff? Would love to learn some of that. :D
Adi Sharma I don't care for 3d stuff. And I believe that 3d is best left to c4d or some other dedicated program. I've really spent my days getting deep into Ae and it has left little time for other programs.
Thanks Evan! am a newbie to AE, I did the G R O S S Letter A and it looks pretty sleek ...hehe
hi Evan - great tutorial!
I wonder how would you achieve the same liquid effect but with the objects that have stroke?
Thanks!
You Rock Dude I like your way of description :)
LOL after effects-ing I like that :D
This is just amazing!! I'd love to know how to do the filling. Because I'm a mess and I can't figure it out as I'd like. Thank you for all your knowledge you are giving us !!!
you simply just press control D to duplicate each layer and just make each of the sizes smaller
Great tutorial! Learned something and laughed a lot! Thank you :)
Dude, you're a blessing
Great video! I want to know if this would work as well with lower opacity settings... no overlapping?
Top notch buddy
Evan you are the best, nice sound by the way ;)
David Leonardo Carranza Muñoz well thanks. I've been working on it.
Love the tutorial. Thanks a million! What about if I wanted the result of my animation just being outlined white in the end? So no filling but only outline.
There are a few methods to get edges of things. You might use the find edges effect for example. But, depending on how clean of a look you're after, that might not work. You can put edges on any layer with the layer styles. You might even create this kind of effect entirely inside a shape layer using offsets that could have a stroke as the outline. Do those ideas get you started?
So much fun...really enjoyed.!!
I might subscribe just for the awareness of the unimportance of your work. Or maybe it's the self-loathing channeled through the task of creating splitting cells, realizing that is how you started as a life form. Either way great stuff, thank you.
Sounds like this channel was a real bring down in 2015. We try to stay more positive these days.
Awesome tutorial. Thanks !
sorry for not on the topic.. i watched your Infinite Door Animation in After Effects tutorial, i repeated step by step like you and it is perfect, but when i tried of myself idea like etc,scaling up and down circle (instead of opening door) it animates weird,mix , apparently due cycle expression and layer beginning position , and i dont know how move next layers that doest weird animation , please can you do tutorial about this , for perfect set up these things for perfect animation.Thanks.
great tutorial, but the bla bla around it is perfect :-D
i have really enjoyed it!
that video saved my day man! Thanks
"You can pretend you know something about science" i died hahahahaha
really nice,im learning a lot,thanks !!
20:47 all right there buddy, you crazy control freak xD
Great tutorial! Is there any chance you would be able to make a tutorial of an object being filled up with liquid?
Amazing work, really! Already a sub.
A question on the spliting 'A' how did you achive that shadow? Looks really nice ;)
Would also like to know! Thanks!
"Let's take this thing from two balls and a stick to something that's actually gross"
Thank you very much! Amazing tutorial, super helpful, even in 2019!
some things never change ;)
I followed along all the steps but my square still looks square with the roughen edge effect and doesn't have that nice curve to the separation... any help >~
thank you you're great
Thank you man, amazing work!
+Walter L'assainato glad you're into it.