Make your Text follow ANY path in After effects free video tutorial by Henry Mbata

This flash tutorial will teach you how to use motion guides. Motion guide let you draw paths along which tweened instance, groups, or text blocked can be animated.

In just a few moments, you can add a vibrant splash to your text that will really add some pop-culture flavor to your designs! Great for spicing up banners and promotional material when time’s a concern.

A co-worker of mine recently found a great article in Wired that had some really beautiful looking “lasers”, as he called them with some light bursts and motion trails around them. He wanted some insight as to how one could emulate those effects in Photoshop and I’ve always wanted

In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to use motion guides. These basically create a ‘path’ that a movieclip will follow, without you having to animate all of the frames at turning points etc. Your final result will be something like this:

This is a fairly basic tutorial, to show you how some basic actionscript can be used to alter a movie clips position. Your final result (in about 5 mins!) will be something like this:

In this tutorial we will understand how motion tracking works inside of after effects. Motion trackers tracks pixel location on frame-by-frame basis. You can track the movement of an object and then apply that tracking data to another layer or to an effect control point.

Using this thoroughly explained, detailed lesson, you will see how to create very useful and realistic aquatic bubble animation using a Motion Guide.

Learn how to create a trail following any movements in the video.

Learn how to zoom into a knife and slow down time as it spins in the air.