Beautiful Lighting & Shading in After Effects with Layer Styles
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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3 жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
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@BenMarriott
3 жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
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@meravkleinmann3930
2 жыл бұрын
@standoesshows type in "ball bounce animation" I don't think Ben has one
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3 жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
SAME. even the (just a visual artist) part. king marriott doing it all for us to thrive
@venusvisions
2 жыл бұрын
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@hirahiro2331
2 жыл бұрын
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Cool!!
WOW!!!
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Nice
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hehe I remember doing this stuff in Flash ;-)
whenever i feel stuck, tired, in a rut with my projects, i watch a ben marriott video, and BOOM! my creative drive comes rushing back to me!
The Set Matte pink reflection trick was very smart!
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Thank you!
@BenMarriott
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!
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
@michaelbrown5801
3 жыл бұрын
THIS
Luv u Ben! Thanks for the shoutout!
THANKS !!!
"Stuff doesn't need to make sense if it looks good!" Yeah baby 😗 I live for that rule 😉
9:26 " it's a bit more on brand for this chili"
You are so cool! Loved this tutorial, i watched bunch of tutorials about shadow and this one just save my project,thank you🤩
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
Thank you very much. I was really struggling to do this and you made it so simple.
Ben, I can't thank you enough for all the knowledge you share! Hope you're doing well.
Awesome, love it! "This is animation, baby!" 😆
@BenMarriott
3 жыл бұрын
You know it!
Wow! Thank you so much. Loved it
This one was amazing.
i love this
@BenMarriott
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks TREAL! You're a real one
this is fucking genius
The Set Matte with the Gaussian Blur is a very clever solution. Thanks so much for sharing and being so generous with your knowlege.
Excellent techniques and insights Ben.. Thank you very much
Those reflections 👏👏👏
Amazing! just amazing, thank you! I have to start thinking of AE a little bit like PS for some things :D
Your animations look amazing!
@BenMarriott
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Primo!!
Thank you Ben, this is exactly what I needed!
I want a shirt with random flying rectangle on it
Layer styles is so underrated!
Thank you for this! I had no idea that blur + set matte were so powerful.
Always amazed by the techniques and results with such simple tools. Thanks for sharing
Very nice
@BenMarriott
3 жыл бұрын
Thank youuu!
Very clever !! Thank you very much for the tips and really nice tricks :)
This tutorial is amazing!
This is animation baby!
this is great i'm planning on using this for animations i make in adobe animate for a semi-realistic look
Thanks for the cheeky shout out Ben!! :D
Love this one, really gives that "ray tracing look" to an animation, thanks Ben!
Thanks for share!
Great tips Ben! Neat little way to create quick reflections too. 👍🏻
That was outstanding techniques. Thanks for helping ❤️👏🏻
A pencil never crashes.
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
you're the best Ben
"Stuff doesn't need to make sense if it looks good" just wow said 🤩👍
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.
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...
Amazing!
Again, very detailed and direct. Thanks!
Incredible as always!
brilliant !
AYOOOOOOOOOO PogChamp
Nice! thx
Awesome tutorial!
Another thing i didn't even know existed in AE 🙈. And the reflection stuff? Chef's kiss!
Cant believe I just found your channel. It's feels like I struct gold! Thank you for all these great contents!
@Satysatonachair
2 жыл бұрын
where were you looking before?! it's THE channel haha
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!
Yeah I made a pretty interesting project for class today and I wanted to add more (personally)
Freakin blown away Ben, recreating Global Illumination in AE...especially on 2D layers!! Ugh...will try that Set Matte effect. So awsome👍🏼✨
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.
Thank you! I want to add some nice shading to my 2d animation. Make it more pleasing to the eye.
Awesome!
Ben!! That reflection trick is genius! As soon as you did that I was like "Well, duh!". Excellent video as always.
great!
amazing as always Ben. Great work! I am going to tinker for a bit with this one.
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
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Awesome
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A big like. I'm happy to make you happy because you make me happy
Gold 😊
Amazing!!! Nice solution man!
That double set matte lit a lightbulb in my head haha
Another great one brother!
aaay this is awesome Ben!
Great tutorial mate! Keep it up!
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Awesome work bro. Do More videos
Great stuff as always mate! 😘
@BenMarriott
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks dude! I really appreciate it :D
Wahoooooo! Very cool!
Need to give this a shot 🤖
The Set Matte + Gaussian Blur + Set Matte combination at 6:21 just blown my mind 😂 Really cool stuff right here.
Ohh yes, the set matte effect is a really underrated one! It definitely deserves some lovin, great video as always
The inner shadow with noise turned on creates another interesting effect, try it out
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 😍😍😍🤗
Can you tell how to create a intro like u pls