Beautiful Lighting & Shading in After Effects with Layer Styles
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- An easy After Effects tutorial on how to use layer styles to achieve a realistic 3D lighting, shading, gradients and reflection effect. This tutorial is suitable for beginners.
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Wow Tip tut in the comments
Thanks my dude! :D
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I like it that you can achieve this Quality LeveL with just a few steps!!! Great tut as always
oh ... the glow with the matte... what a simple solution, and so effective! You rock, thank you xx
Ben, I can't thank you enough for all the knowledge you share! Hope you're doing well.
Love this one, really gives that "ray tracing look" to an animation, thanks Ben!
Great tips Ben! Neat little way to create quick reflections too. 👍🏻
Always amazed by the techniques and results with such simple tools. Thanks for sharing
Thank you Ben, this is exactly what I needed!
The Set Matte with the Gaussian Blur is a very clever solution. Thanks so much for sharing and being so generous with your knowlege.
omg the set matte reflection is so simple, but so effective! bravo!
Omggggggg Love these tutorials and you channel. Your tips really adds that value to my work, thank you so much.
Thank you very much. I was really struggling to do this and you made it so simple.
amazing as always Ben. Great work! I am going to tinker for a bit with this one.
Ben!! That reflection trick is genius! As soon as you did that I was like "Well, duh!". Excellent video as always.
Wow Ben !!!! It's so so so awesome!! The way u used set matte it's so cool nd the reflection of traingle on circle looks so releastic, loved it 😍😍😍🤗
Thank you for this tutorial! I would like to learn more about basics like understanding physics of falling circle. But your tutorials are incredible, I just repeat it and get an amazing result!
Ive honestly been practicing for hours to work this program i intend to animate professionally one day and the vidoes are a breath of fresh air I will say
The Set Matte pink reflection trick was very smart!
Incredible as always!
Ohh yes, the set matte effect is a really underrated one! It definitely deserves some lovin, great video as always
Cant believe I just found your channel. It's feels like I struct gold! Thank you for all these great contents!
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You are so cool! Loved this tutorial, i watched bunch of tutorials about shadow and this one just save my project,thank you🤩
Again, very detailed and direct. Thanks!
Freakin blown away Ben, recreating Global Illumination in AE...especially on 2D layers!! Ugh...will try that Set Matte effect. So awsome👍🏼✨
aaay this is awesome Ben!
Excellent techniques and insights Ben.. Thank you very much
Thank you for this! I had no idea that blur + set matte were so powerful.
Your animations look amazing!
Thanks Primo!!
Great tutorial mate! Keep it up!
That was outstanding techniques. Thanks for helping ❤️👏🏻
Amazing!!! Nice solution man!
This tutorial is amazing!
Wow! Thank you so much. Loved it
This one was amazing.
I'll be using the "This is animation baby! Stuff doesn't need to make sense if it looks good!" line during client conversations a lot from now on! Thanks Ben
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Thank you! Welcome aboard!
this is great i'm planning on using this for animations i make in adobe animate for a semi-realistic look
Another thing i didn't even know existed in AE 🙈. And the reflection stuff? Chef's kiss!
Very clever !! Thank you very much for the tips and really nice tricks :)
Awesome, love it!
"This is animation, baby!" 😆
You know it!
OMFG I've worked in AE for 5 years and spent so much time fiddling with with multiple alpha mattes for different layers. I never knew the 'set matte' effect existed until this tutorial. Thank you and I'm kicking myself XD
THIS
you're the best Ben
Great stuff as always mate! 😘
Thanks dude! I really appreciate it :D
Those reflections 👏👏👏
Another great one brother!
Luv u Ben! Thanks for the shoutout!
Thank you! I want to add some nice shading to my 2d animation. Make it more pleasing to the eye.
I want a tshirt that says, "This is Animation Baby" on the front and "We Always Label Our Layers" on the back.
"Stuff doesn't need to make sense if it looks good" just wow said 🤩👍
"Stuff doesn't need to make sense if it looks good!"
Yeah baby 😗 I live for that rule 😉
Awesome tutorial!
Thanks for the cheeky shout out Ben!! :D
we love u bro ! so awsome
Amazing! just amazing, thank you! I have to start thinking of AE a little bit like PS for some things :D
A tutorial about colour settings in Adobe CC would be extremely helpful! No matter what I try, my colours always change when moving files between different Adobe programs...
Nice! I was playing around with layer styles today funnily enough! It sucks I can't double up on the same layer style though. Feels very limiting seeing as I can't have the bevel and emboss have a noisy texture without changing the blending mode to Dissolve where as the inner glow has a slider for noise amount.
Layer styles is so underrated!
Amazing!
Cool!!
Thank you
thanks my guy!
Thanks for share!
The Set Matte + Gaussian Blur + Set Matte combination at 6:21 just blown my mind 😂
Really cool stuff right here.
brilliant !
Awesome!
THANKS !!!
i love this
Thanks TREAL! You're a real one
Awesome work bro. Do More videos
Wahoooooo! Very cool!
Thank you!
Thank you for watching!
WOW!!!
Nice! thx
This is animation baby!
Awesome
Yeah I made a pretty interesting project for class today and I wanted to add more (personally)
great!
Gold 😊
Any POGGERS 😮
That double set matte lit a lightbulb in my head haha
😍❤ So pro bro.. 👏👏👏
The inner shadow with noise turned on creates another interesting effect, try it out
As always - Great! Sad, that I lost motivation.
Watching your vid in korea !!
Nice
Omg there so many things learn from you. I"m glad i found this channel. How can i send my low-key motion designs to you to take critisice from you.
A big like. I'm happy to make you happy because you make me happy
Waouw nice ! but the question is how do you animate/make the rebound of the sphere so real ???
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Gr8!
Need to give this a shot 🤖
Very nice
Thank youuu!
you are the bast
genius
Hey Ben, where's your lovely background music?🥺
Love the tutorial by the way!!!
Ben, you are f*ckin awesome!
i finally found this