Did you know that CC Particle World allows you to use an image (or texture) as a custom particle type?

In this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz gives you some cool tips for working with numeric text, for things like video game scores and other digital readouts.

The After Effects text animation system is very powerful. So why not use it for more than just text?

This script creates a new camera and sets point of interest, position and orientation keyframes so that the camera successively faces each comp layer.

4 presets for solids, 1 for text.

Learn some fun techniques to get interesting animation by playing with the pivot points of layers and nulls objects

Use bitmap and text layers to emit particles to achieve Knowing film effect. Trapcode particular will read and emit particle text from the lava cracks.

The project is driven by two basic compositions - one contains the image to be wiped on and the other contains a very basic gradient to control the direction of the wipe.

J Schuh creates some flaming chrome text in After Effects using the glow and liquify effects.