Motion designer Harry Frank demonstrates how to get around the particle orientation limitation in Trapcode Particular wherein particles always face the camera.

Animated swirls are all the rage in the motion graphics world, and there are some pretty cool things that can be done with them.

Motion designer Harry Frank shows how to breath new life or make a retro look with standard After Effects Lens Flare by using Shape Layers and Trapcode Shine.

Earthquake effects on fullscreen video clips

You know the good old movies shown in an old flickering and not very well timed film projector where you can see the different frames scrolling.

Ease and Wizz is a set of expressions for After Effects that give you more ways to interpolate between values. This new version lets you apply the expressions to curved motion paths and mask shapes.

If you wanna wiggle something, and have it be loop-able (for motion backgrounds and whatnot) this is the code for you.

Tracking and stabilizing footage plays important role in composition.

In this 3.5 minute video tip John Dickinson shows how you can look through a camera linked to a light.

Creates a bouncing (sine wave) motion between two specified 2-dimensional positions over a
specified period of time (in seconds). Useful for creating bouncing balls.