You’ve built a dynamic layout with Pins & Boxes and wonder how to center it in your comp? Here is a super easy and general approach to center it around any pin or box of your layout! Use this in your Mogrt templates!

Learn how Adobe After Effects' new “Content-Aware Fill” feature can be enhanced by using the Mocha AE CC plug-in for tracked masks.

Learn how to rig a hand in After Effects using Joysticks 'n Sliders by backwoods animation

Great concise Joysticks 'n Sliders rigging tutorial by keyfram.ed

Charles Yeager shows how to create double exposure displacement mapping effects with FreeForm Pro, as seen in True Detective Main Title sequence Seasons One and Three. Free project file included.

We are doing it again this year! Join School of Motion, Greyscale Gorilla, Video Copilot, Maxon, Red Giant, Motion Hatch, Action VFX, aescripts + aeplugins and more at the NAB MoGraph Meet-up!

Great commercial made with Stardust by Gravity

Adobe released an important new version of After Effects today which they are now calling 16.1 but it can be considered CC 2019.1 if you are going by the old naming convention. Joey from School of Motion does a great job breaking down the new features and showcasing the amazing new Content Aware Fill for Video which will surely blow your mind. He also includes the project file and a free script in his review.

Explainer created using  Joysticks 'n Sliders by Plumcat Studio

Explainer created using Explode Shape Layers, Ray Dynamic Color, AfterCodecs, GifGun, EaseCopy in After Effects by Adrian Moran

Explainer using Isomatic FX by Rodrigo Domínguez

Clever effect on this title sequence for the BBC by otok

Jason Boone of No Film School shows you how to create dynamic and customizable map animations with the GEOlayers 2 plugin for Adobe After Effects.

Roland Hartmann of graphicinmotion.com shows how to create a 3D Abstract Landscape scene using the Stardust plugin.

This tutorial covers using the 3D models, Maps, Turbulence Node and more.

Learn how to create a character animation template library using Rigomator in After Effects by Ina

Insane animation created using  Real Glow, Immigration, GifGun by Jeremy Mansford

Fantastic animation created using Ray Dynamic Texture and Ray Dynamic Color by Chris “Heezy” Hurtt

We are happy to again sponsor @motionmarkus's Animation SmashDown with some excellent prizes!

In this tutorial series learn how to create dynamic layouts in After Effects using Pins & Boxes. This is especially useful if you are creating Mogrt projects!

VinhSon Nguyen reviews Deep Glow and compares it against other After Effects glow plugins.