After Effects is very capable animation tool for both the "jointed" method and "squash-and-stretch" technique. Richard Lainhart pulls some effective character animation tricks out of the bag.
Monty Python's characteristic lo-fi animation style is famous across the world. In this article, Richard Lainhart shows how to create the "mouthy", lip-sync animation in Adobe After Effects CS5.
If you had to name your three favourite plugins for After Effects which would you choose? It's a hard choice. Well, we asked Toby Pitman and he obliged with some interesting suggestions.
Hello, sailors, and welcome to New York! These guys, probably shot in the 1930s, are going to help us learn how to bring static 2D images into an animated 3D space with Photoshop and After Effects. It