Glad it was helpful! 😊 We see lots of tutorials explaining the how already that we thought adding our thought process would add to the overall learning of the people who would watch this. Glad to know it was effective 😊
was looking for an easy way to simulate hand-drawn animation in a similar style. the tips you gave in this vid helped me a lot! thank you for sharing :)
Thanks! Yes this is what we advocate, that you can use knowledge from other fields interchangeably. What we learn in 3d can by applied in 2d, frame by frame in AE and vice versa. 😊
If you hold click the pen tool icon on your menu bar, there should be a pop up that would allow you choose different pen tool options. Choose the one with the + sign
This is awesome! Do you have any tips to make it a perfect loop? It usually loops in a cycle with Wave Warp, but for some reason, it's not looping at the end... Do you know why?
Glad you liked it! For making this a perfect loop, that would be difficult. It's because your controls here is the wave warp, in which you would need to set the speed etc. It is possible but you have to compute, for the speed, the length of the animation, and other parameters. But it's possible to arrive to a loop, it's just hard esp. if you don't know the math and all 😅 And we're not that good with math 😅 Whenever I use this technique, I don't use it for loop but I just set a long duration like 8 - 10 seconds. But you can always do trial and error, play around with the values until you arrive at a perfect loop.
@@plainlysimple Thanks for the reply and help, man! Yeah, the main problem is the speed difference you talk about at 14:35 in the video. It does give a lot more realism, but the difference makes it impossible to loop at the end. One solution I found was to apply the posterize time effect in an adjustment layer as you said, precompose everything, and then slice the precomp in half. Drag the first half to the end, and the last half to the beginning (this will make the loop perfect at the end, and now the problem is in the middle). Now you just have to drag the sliced precomps around a little and find a common ground between them, where the frame at the end of one precomp kinda looks like the frame at the beginning of the other (it doesn't need to be exactly the same of course, just similar). You may want to tweak the wave warp effect a little until you manage to find a similar frame. Now, because we have applied the posterize time effect, any little difference between those frames will look like part of the animation, and will go unnoticed, making it a perfect loop. Another easier solution is of course to just leave both wave warp effects at the same speed. (You can see the loop at 14:24 in your video). It loops perfectly and still looks good, sacrificing a little realism in the benefit of sanity. 😅
hi friend, I'm in Vietnam, I just approached Adobe and want to become an animator and youtuber :>, so in the process of using adobe I encountered many problems. Can you help me answer some questions? Thank you very much.
For our animation classes, we use Adobe animate and for drawing classes we use Photoshop. In those classes, we teach you how to use those software but even if you choose to use different software you can still follow along. The main focus of those classes is the principles. 😊
Brilliant tutorial. I really appreciate how you include your thought process as you go through things.
Glad it was helpful! 😊 We see lots of tutorials explaining the how already that we thought adding our thought process would add to the overall learning of the people who would watch this. Glad to know it was effective 😊
That's a VERY SMART way of using wave warp!! Thanks for the tutorial! :D
You're welcome! 😊 Glad you like it!
This is one of my favourite 2D flame effects in after effects, thankyou
Thanks for the kind words! Glad you liked it. :)
thanks! not just the tutorial but the perspective is gonna help a lot!!
Glad it helped! Keep at it! Take care! 👋
was looking for an easy way to simulate hand-drawn animation in a similar style. the tips you gave in this vid helped me a lot! thank you for sharing :)
Great! Glad this helped! Do you have an IG? Tag us we’d love to see what you came up with 😊
So cool! I animate in after effects all the time and never think to use my knowledge of frame by frame animation to improve my animations!
Thanks! Yes this is what we advocate, that you can use knowledge from other fields interchangeably. What we learn in 3d can by applied in 2d, frame by frame in AE and vice versa. 😊
The greatest tutorial i have ever seen
Thanks! 😄
Best video ever on fire animation. You are a genius. Thanks.
Wow, thanks! Glad you liked it! 👍
Man this is awesome! Waiting for the next tutorials.
Thanks! More to come! 😁
You're a great teacher! Thank you for this tutorial :)
Thanks!! And you're welcome 😊
such an informative video, your process guiding in understanding why fire looks the way it does makes this tutorial so incredible!
Hi! Glad to know you liked this tutorial! 😊
For the windows the vertex tool start with shift + alt incase you get mixed up doing this practice
I'm not that familiar with windows anymore. Thanks for sharing :)
best tuto about fire aep i have seen ! thanks you
Thanks! Glad you liked it 😊
That's an ossum tutorial 💯💯💯👍
Glad you liked it 🙌
I animate frame by frame in TVPaint, but I still found this insightful and interesting to watch!
Thank you Micah! 🙏
This was very helpful and clear to follow! Thank you!
You're welcome!
this is amazing. much appreciated!
Thanks! And much appreciated for watching the video. Take care 👋
great explained thanks
You're welcome! 😊
Fantastic tutorial!
Glad you liked it! 😊
Awesomeness
Thanks!! 😄
Thank you for this amazing tutorials! I made cool fire!
You're so welcome! Once you're done let us have a look :D
Thanks! It looks simple than frame by frame animation. I will try it 😁
Yes it's really simple. If you finished it let us know or tag us on IG: @plainlysimplestudios
We would love to see it 😄
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Is there a way to loop this flame? Im new to after effects
Excellent!
Great job..Thank you for this type of video
Thanks and you're welcome :)
Very impressive! Thanks!
Thanks! 😊
Track matte doesn't give me the option of alpha matte inverted, so I'm blocked from following along with this for now. Thoughts?
Just beside the track matte, you'll see two boxes, you can toggle the matte inverted by clicking the second box. Hope that helps 😊
i cant seem to be able to use the add vertex tool on my shape layers, any suggestions?
If you hold click the pen tool icon on your menu bar, there should be a pop up that would allow you choose different pen tool options. Choose the one with the + sign
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oh thanks a lot!
You're welcome!
i cant put the point with the tool vertex, help!!!! i use Ae 2024
This is awesome! Do you have any tips to make it a perfect loop? It usually loops in a cycle with Wave Warp, but for some reason, it's not looping at the end... Do you know why?
Glad you liked it! For making this a perfect loop, that would be difficult. It's because your controls here is the wave warp, in which you would need to set the speed etc. It is possible but you have to compute, for the speed, the length of the animation, and other parameters. But it's possible to arrive to a loop, it's just hard esp. if you don't know the math and all 😅 And we're not that good with math 😅 Whenever I use this technique, I don't use it for loop but I just set a long duration like 8 - 10 seconds. But you can always do trial and error, play around with the values until you arrive at a perfect loop.
@@plainlysimple Thanks for the reply and help, man! Yeah, the main problem is the speed difference you talk about at 14:35 in the video. It does give a lot more realism, but the difference makes it impossible to loop at the end. One solution I found was to apply the posterize time effect in an adjustment layer as you said, precompose everything, and then slice the precomp in half. Drag the first half to the end, and the last half to the beginning (this will make the loop perfect at the end, and now the problem is in the middle). Now you just have to drag the sliced precomps around a little and find a common ground between them, where the frame at the end of one precomp kinda looks like the frame at the beginning of the other (it doesn't need to be exactly the same of course, just similar). You may want to tweak the wave warp effect a little until you manage to find a similar frame. Now, because we have applied the posterize time effect, any little difference between those frames will look like part of the animation, and will go unnoticed, making it a perfect loop.
Another easier solution is of course to just leave both wave warp effects at the same speed. (You can see the loop at 14:24 in your video). It loops perfectly and still looks good, sacrificing a little realism in the benefit of sanity. 😅
@@ThiagoFerreira-zt8zvyour comment really helped me, thank you
Thankssss
you're welcome
hi friend, I'm in Vietnam, I just approached Adobe and want to become an animator
and youtuber :>, so in the process of using adobe I encountered many problems. Can you help me answer some questions? Thank you very much.
like it sooooo much thx u
You're welcome 😊 Glad you liked it.
What softwares do u teach in your skillshare class ?
And also do u teach to use that software or u teach to make animations etc
For our animation classes, we use Adobe animate and for drawing classes we use Photoshop. In those classes, we teach you how to use those software but even if you choose to use different software you can still follow along. The main focus of those classes is the principles. 😊
Nice
Thanks 😊
Please give me the tree and the girl file
What device you use for drawing?
My current drawing tablet is a huion kamvas