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There’s something inherently powerful and cool about transforming the material of UI. By allowing the user to stretch and distort the material, the experience can become much more engaging and dynamic. Of course it can be abused as well, to the point where it impacts usability, so be...
If you’ve already watched my first tutorial on UI jelly, you’ll be pleased because this one offers something a little different. There are fundamentally two different ‘UI jelly’ treatments I’ve come across.
Here are some references that illustrate what I mean...
Over the years of teaching UI animation and helping designers and animators integrate motion into their online portfolios, I've noticed a major trend: designers do not integrate motion well into their online portfolios.
When it comes to the strategic design of your portfolio, it's important to...
How to curve your UI in After Effects
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In this tutorial, I show you step by step how to curve your UI in After Effects.
This tutorial will let you add your UI to any curved screen in After Effects.
We’ll be covering the ‘Bezier’ effect, which gives you handles...
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In this tutorial video, you are going to learn how to quickly animate a page swipe in After Effects. You will also learn some great easing numbers to create smooth gestural animations. You will also be learning critical keyboard...
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In this tutorial video, you are going to learn how to put your prototype on any device in After Effects.
This is a great way to share your work on your portfolio or in a presentation. Your design feels more real and...
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Ok so full confession, I LOVE keyboard shortcuts. I love being fast and building my ui animations in after effects with lightning speed. I don’t expect you to get blazingly fast right away, but you are guaranteed to at least double your overall...
I don't usually do this but last week I received an email asking for career advice. The question touched a nerve and I wanted to share my thoughts about feeling like an imposter.
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Issara - Thank you so much for this content. I'm a total newb - and I mean newwwb. I have zero experience in...
Every time I’m done teaching a full day motion and usability workshop, I do this really stupid thing.
I rebuild my entire workshop from scratch while incorporating all the new feedback, plus new research I’ve done.
Hey I wanted to share a new library reference I captured the other day.
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Whenever I encounter motion on my phone I tend to notice the design and execution. I quickly create a video capture for analysis. I add it to my resource library. ...
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I created a quick tutorial video to show you how to quickly create an adjustment layer, 3 ways to locate an effect, and 3 ways to quickly apply the effect to the layer.
One of the things that makes the UI animation workflow unique...
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This week’s tutorial is a simple and super helpful thing to know.
Sometimes you need to take all your linked UI animation files, copy them into a single location, and have all the links update in your After Effects project file....
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This is a really cool After Effects feature. It’s so simple I hesitated sharing it with you.
However, it’s been pointed out to me that I’ve been struck with the ‘curse of knowledge’, as they say. I figured...
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UI Animation needs to be fast and clean. There’s no two ways about it. If it’s slow, it appears unresponsive, and unprofessional.
In fact, the single biggest mistake I see designers make is that their motion design is way...
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Sometimes I discover something amazing in After Effects. This is one of those times.
Over the years, it just so happens that occasionally I need to take my UI Animation composition and resize it.
I’ve found all kinds of creative...
I think this is amazing and people have been asking for this feature for years.There are a few things to know and in this video I'm going to break it all down and the fastest and easiest way to export an MP4 out of After Effects and get it posted to Dribbble.
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I’m super excited to share this technique with you.
Here’s the idea: sometimes you need to show a video render and actually show the layer handles and UI elements. It’s part of the ‘behind the scenes’ or...
I created a quick tutorial to show you the best way to get your sketch file to After Effects.
Here’s the backstory.
Over the last few years, Sketch has crushed the UX design workflow. Not to say that everyone uses Sketch, but a lot of designers do.
Getting your Sketch file into After...
In this tutorial I show you how to turn an avatar into a header in After Effects.
In After Effects there are always a million different ways of doing things. That’s what makes it so...
