Top 10 Best Effects in After Effects!

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what's up everybody is terminated and today we're gonna go over the top 10 best effects in After Effects I'm excited I know you are to heart and lift though the effects on this list are just gonna blow your mind these are the dopest effects and come right out the box and after things you don't have to spend any extra money to do some really cool stuff I'm gonna show you right now ok so there's so many to choose from that it can be daunting but we're gonna go over the ones that the community uses the most first up on the list is an effect that gets used and literally every project that I've ever done with After Effects since learning about it from the VFX Godfather himself Andrew Kramer color correction curves which is amazing effect I love this effect who doesn't love this effect well I knew this one guy he didn't like curves he liked levels now he works at Starbucks so you know it's justice I guess that's right I'm talking about this little hidden gem under the color correction tab called curves curves is super useful for color correction you can pretty much use curves to match color differences between layers and VFX shots for compositing and you can also use curves for do a really nice finishing final touches super simple and super useful highly recommend curves gets a big fat black mixture simple okay so fill in gradient ramp works similar to your standard color fill and gradient fill tools and after effects when you're creating some sort of song lit or shape layer except these work on any kind of layer which is super useful because that means that it can also be used with expressions and keyframes I use a fill and gradient ramp a lot whenever creating motion graphics custom effects like and yet textures color shift addition animations and things like that these effects are literally filter out my projects because they are really simple really powerful making them a handy tool right up the box and after effects your only gradient ramp get a big at black make sure stamp of approval now most companies making VFX plugins tend to focus a lot on making their own glow to challenge the default blue and after effects red giants but I'd argue that the default would after effects when use well shines brighter than its competitors okay well not that bright but it's pretty dope in order to get the glow to look really nice I like to stack multiple glow effects with varying settings for a really specific style so for the black Fink video I used a lower threshold for the ambient glow and a higher threshold and intensity for the highlights and glint which made the hand-drawn animation blended with this scene but still standout settings for gloves can range from simple to complex I love how it runs pretty fast you want to have three or four glow settings stacked together sometimes I even use below it they're really subtle way when I'm compositing computer screens or phone screens and monitors to mimic real word Lighting's just lit one of my favorites will get a big fat black mixture stamp of approval motion tracker and the newer added camera tracker are super dope tools that come right out the box and after thanks they're really useful for quickly tracking objects and recreating 3d camera movements for quick projects like sky replacements logo rules cell phone replacements quick tracking here in their motion tracker and camera tracker can be more useful in keeping your workflow as simple and efficient as possible that reason it gets a black mixture stamp of approval have you ever wanted to make your blurs buttery smooth but didn't want your computer run slower than old people thing then you're in luck because After Effects comes with two really fast useful little things called dodging and fast blur these simple blurs are really versatile and that you can use them for glows drop shadows smoothing textures nice gradients pretty much the possibilities are endless and they run super fast and After Effects which makes them well deserving of a black make sure stamp of approval simple choker it's an effect that comes in handy a lot when working on motion graphics elements leaning up Keys now have you ever tried removing a background from something and have been left with all those little bits of confetti like you threw a party on the foot well simple choker might be able to help you because it'll smooth out the fat and push it in or out depending on the settings that you choose so this is really useful for things like compress images with baked-in backgrounds or even green screen shots that look a little bit rough after you've used something like key light on them so I highly recommend simple choker it gets the black make sure stamp of approval fractal noise is one of those super versatile effects that can be using everything from volumetric lighting effects and fog effects to displacement maps for oceans and yeah it just takes a little bit of understanding of other compositing techniques and VFX techniques in order to fully utilize it but once you master those fractal noise will become like your best friend so I've made vampires burn under the Sun with really nice subsurface in lighting just using fractal noise for organic displacements it's also been pretty useful for making beyond lighting effects in lo-fi animations highly recommend you check out fractal noise it's well deserving of a black mixture stamp of approval okay see see particle world who doesn't love exploding things until a million little balls Hollywood sure does a few particle is one of those insanely powerful particle systems that comes right off the box and after-effects and works natively within it to make all kinds of cool effects yeah just check out this quick montage of all the clips you can do with CG particle [Music] all right yeah and for that it gets a black mixture of stamp of approval okay so using echo is the equivalent of being Albert Einstein in that you can make time your distinction between the posh lesson there's but to stop an illusion on the surface you have a pretty straightforward repeater and offset er which can make really dope supersonic turbo looking effects or trippy vision effects but also when you pair it with a few other effects like simple choker and you have things going on like motion graphics elements you can actually create a procedural motion blur and a procedural motion trail for 2d element it's super neat and fun to use and effects are all about having funds Pat from Mike I know Chu NECO gets a black mixture stamp of approval okay so right now we are down to the tenth one and before I get to this one I want to let you guys know that this list is in no way in order of the dopest they're just too awesome and unique to compare like that this list is also not the entire end all say all for best after effects plugins they're just my opinion based on my experience from doing projects for motion graphics and visual effects and things like that if you find any of these useful let us know in the comments and also make sure you hit that subscribe button there's going to be all kinds of dope videos coming out alright let's get back to the list okay so number 10 on the list is my all-time favorite displacement effects it's kind of a cheat one because it's two effects in this one too it's turbulent displace and displacement map now displacement map is so versatile that it can be used to make liquid energy ripples in footage and concrete water like puddles and lo-fi animations like this one on our channel check that out link in there shameless plug yeah so I've also used these in like music videos to make cool smokey dreamlike effects and I just love how impressive a few tweaks with these effects and combinations with them can make the jaw-dropping visuals highly recommend you play around with turbulence place in displacement maps they get a well-earned black makes your stamp of approval alright and so that's it for the list I want to know what you guys think are these effects dope enough to be on this top 10 that was are there any others that I did not mention that you think everyone else should know about let us know in the comments as always hope to catch you in the next ones peace [Music]