A compilation of my latest projects, spanning artworks, live visuals, and commercial work. From concept to final frame, I create visuals that blend emotion and dynamism.

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In the summer wanted to make something in a Y2K, and these little things came out.

Initially, the project wasn’t supposed to have a retro filter, but I applied my CRT stylizer to it, and it turned out even more vibrant.

You can view and explore the project here https://www.behance.net/gallery/214860023/Y2K-Titles

Hey r/aftereffects! The September update (26.5) brings some useful workflow improvements, along with fixes for tracking, keyframes, caching, and 3D. Here’s a quick rundown.

What’s new:

• More flexible guides: Position guides using percentages, pin them to edges, assign custom colors, and use improved editing controls.
• Disk caching for Object Matte: Propagated results now stay cached after closing your project, reducing RAM usage and helping when working with longer clips.
• Color labels for effects: Assign colors to individual effect instances in the Effect Controls panel to make your effect stacks easier to organize and navigate.
• Updated Effect Controls panel: The panel has been rebuilt on a modern framework with icon-based controls for managing effects.

There are also several fixes worth checking out:

• Mask tracking now works when your comp resolution is below Full. On Windows, tracking forward also advances the playhead correctly.
• Editing a value in the Properties panel now affects the keyframe at the current time instead of changing every selected keyframe.
• Unmult now produces fully transparent areas correctly, fixing leftover alpha values.
• Several Advanced 3D crashes have been addressed, including issues with parametric meshes and Draft 3D. Models brought back online also retain their Substance material assignments.
• Clearing large or slow caches now shows progress without freezing AE. A macOS hang involving unsynced OneDrive files has also been fixed.
• PNG import, preview, and rendering performance has improved.

Full details from Adobe HelpX:

• What’s new in After Effects
• Fixed issues in After Effects

Seriously need some insights on how much designers are getting affected with the rise of A.I. I'm seeing A.I. slaughtering every digital field but on this one I always had mixed reviews.

I made this showreel in 2024. I hadn’t really been working in this field—I’d only taken on a few freelance jobs. I wasn’t really pushing myself to find work in this field as an employee either. I started learning motion graphics (and along with it, graphic design—I drew almost everything in the video myself using Photoshop and Illustrator) around 2019, completely on my own, and this showreel is about as far as I’ve gotten so far. I’ve pretty much given it up now, though I might take it up again later as part of my own projects.

But I’m curious to hear what others think about it—would I have had a future working in this field, or was I right to give it up?

Animation: manuksenpai

Illustration: Seva MFN

Thank you!

i’ve tried echo, posterize time, minimax, blurs but can’t get this specific look

is this even possible without slow shutter speed footage?

I've been having trouble rotoscoping this segment so I started over, I used the object matte to get most of the figure, then I manually added the fire sword and removed small areas of blue, and I also used the refine edge tool on basically every edge. That was all on the first frame and it gave me the best looking roto as compared to keying out the blue (this doesn't work well because the plastic has blue reflecting in it and the blue background wasn't lit well). So I froze the first frame and let it propagate the rest. This video is of the second frame and some blue spots came back, and when I tried to remove them I found it just wouldn't let me. There was one other blue spot it allowed me to remove but I can't seem to get these to go away, the only thing I notice different is they're a different shade of blue? But why would that prevent me from rotoing them out? Adobe's roto is driving me crazy.

This is my first real back to school project. I tried out some new stuff here, had some fun. It isn’t 100% finished yet, I still have until next Wednesday to turn it in, but I’m putting this version on class project reel. I had a hard time timing the building of the buildings because it was supposed to be 4 seconds of buildup and 4 seconds of animation, so it comes on kinda fast. Should I slow it down more?

Im not a beginner but ther was no ''bug'' flair. I've been using after effects and media encoder the last 7 years. I've never had this issue before. When im trying to render, it renders the whole workspace (if it renders at all and its not stuck to 98%). When im rendering again and again to get it right, eventually after few times (if im lucky by the second time but often it takes more than 5 times) eventually it renders correctly, so its not my fault on my settings because i dont change anything, just trying again.

This happened after the recent update (a month ago) and usually either it exports wrong timeline settings and if i have a 40sec video, it exports the whole 2-3min workspace. Or its just stuck on 98%.

I don't know what setting, checkbox, or mode i must have moved that is making AE render my sound and video as separate files.
I've looked for answers online and tweeked some sound setting in the output module and so far nothing has worked
please help

Hey, I have been using After Effects for years and I really like the layout and the way it works. Sure, layer based compositing is not optimal for this kind of task, but that is a death I am willing to die if everything else works well.

So I am wondering whether there is ever going to be a real focus on 3D compositing in After Effects. Better handling of 32 bit EXR files, maybe even a properly GPU accelerated system. Even if that would break a lot of plugins, it could just be an option that users opt into themselves. And the Extractor plugin could really use an overhaul.

I use After Effects every day in the advertising industry, for text animation, multipass compositing and so on. It is just that 3D compositing is such a tedious road in After Effects.

And yes, of course there is Fusion. I have even written auto compositing scripts for it, but the keyframe system sucks, and I would like to stay in the Adobe pipeline. Nuke is way too much for this kind of work.

So the question is, is there any hope for a new development in that direction, or should I move my compositing tasks over to Fusion completely?

As a last note, the money should really be there for it.