Adobe After Effect is an innovative software packaged by Adobe Systems (a famous American computer software company launched in 1982). There are numerous softwares that Adobe has. And industrially, all of it’s applications have the best recognition. Be it animation or web designing or graphic designing, Adobe rules the 2D and 3D Space through it’s compact software that boasts of featured plugins, presets, filters, 3D effects and several quick menu options that definitely deliver the best of computer graphics on Mother Earth.
You must be knowing that I am more of a programmer and less of a graphic designer and that’s why my blog looks loaded with exhaustive text and simple graphics. As I have undergone numerous trainings and development work in field of programming, the graphics created by me have a more essence of “Programming” than abstract thinking of a graphic designer.
Since I first faced the computer(perhaps around 13 years ago), my father showed me a movie of “Tom And Jerry” on the screen. I was really fascinated by the thrilling action and humour of the cartoon show “Tom And Jerry”. This was the first animation movie that I had seen as a kid of 4 year. After 3 years of that incident, I tried hands on Microsoft Office suite and then a year later, shifted to Microsoft Power Point, which really proved to help me out with animation work and little of graphics. Subsequently, after years I used my brain on the mighty ” Adobe Photoshop” which gave wonderful results.. Frankly speaking, I did not know which plugin will give what effect, I was simply trying to explore things and I was succesful. I used the animation pallete window to create small animation using the .gif format for images. It made things more interesting and recently, while exploring my desktop, I thought of trying hands on Adobe After Effect. I must agree that, it is a good software for video editing and it has enormous potentials to make YOU the best 2D / 3D animator in the city. I really mean it. What they don’t teach you in institution, helps you in the corporate world. Don’t stick to the syllabus of your school / college, rather try innovating on your own.
Let me show you a few images, that I had made on my own through Photoshop before 4-5 years. 
These images definitely mean more than a thousand dollar for me. As it was the starting phase of my journey into the world of technology.
Now, lets discuss about the latest thing that I am using these days. It’s Adobe After Effect. As mentioned earlier, it is the best video editing tools for experts as well as newbies. It is fully loaded with thousands of preset animations and options that will make your experience designing a video into a more interesting one.
See the following videos:
These videos are designed by me using the software Adobe After Effect and it uses all the basic presets offered in Adobe After Effect.
Following is the list of animation / presets available in Adobe After Effect.
Backgrounds
- Apparition
- Blocks
- Cinders
- Circuit
- Cosmic Power
- Creepy
- Curtain
- Deep Tissue
- Fog Lights
- Germs
- Green Crystals
- Indigestion
- Infection
- Lightning Bend
- Magma
- Orb
- Pixels
- Racing Rectangles
- Red Speed
- River
- Rose Light
- Silk
- Smoke Rising
- Sweeping Curves
Behaviors
- Autoscroll – horizontal
- Autoscroll – vertical
- Drift Over Time
- Fade In Over Layer Below
- Fade In+Out – frames
- Fade In+Out – msec
- Fade Out Over Layer Below
- Opacity Flash – layer markers
- Opacity Flash – random
- Rotate Over Time
- Scale Bounce – layer markers
- Scale Bounce – random
- Wiggle – gelatin
- Wiggle – position
- Wiggle – rotation
- Wiggle – scale
- Wiggle – shear
- Wigglerama
Image – Creative
- Bloom – brights+darks
- Bloom – brights
- Bloom – crystallize
- Colorize – blue wash
- Colorize – gold dip
- Colorize – infrared
- Colorize – moonshadows
- Colorize – red hand tint
- Colorize – royal purple
- Colorize – sepia
- Colorize – sky blue
- Colorize – sky orange
- Colorize – sunset gradient
- Contrast – luminance
- Contrast – saturation
- Dimension – bevel+shadow
- Dimension – glow+shadow
- Grayscale
- Inset Video – framed
- Inset Video – torn edges
- Left Third – scoop mask NTSC
- Left Third – scoop mask PAL
- Lower Third – scoop mask NTSC
- Lower Third – scoop mask PAL
- Lower Third Holdout – darken
- Lower Third Holdout – saturate
- Mood Lighting – amorphous
- Mood Lighting – digital
- Mood Lighting – streaks
- Vignette Lighting
Image – Special Effects
- Bad TV 1 – warp
- Bad TV 2 – old
- Bad TV 3 – weak
- Cracked Tiles
- Embossed Multiple Exposure
- Light Leaks – layer markers
- Light Leaks – random
- Motion Registration Errors
- Night Vision
Image – Utilities
- Compress-Expand Dynamic Range
- Crop Edges
- Flip + Flop
- Flip
- Flop
- Invert Alpha
- Keying – blue blur
- Keying – green blur
- Levels – computer to video
- Levels – video to computer
- Reduce DV blockiness
- Sample Image Expression
Shapes
Backgrounds
- Box Swarm
- Kaleidoscopic
- Nerve Net – Circular
- Nerve Net – Linear
- Nerve Net – Penta
Backgrounds 2*
- Autumn Leaves*
- Blue Hibiscus*
- Butterfly Resolve*
- Fabric of Space*
- Floral Explosion*
- Jellyfish Web*
- Sharps*
Elements
- 60s Text Bar
- Chasing Line – Boxes
- Chasing Line – Dots
- Marquee Chasers
- Mod Boxes
- Ring Chart
- Wireframe Worm
Elements 2*
- Box Grid*
- Crosshatch Focus*
- Deconstructionist*
- Deploy*
- Geo Logo*
- Graph Paper*
- Honeycomb*
- Iris Flare*
- Kaleidorganic*
- Kaleidoscopic Seaweed*
- Light Bulb Sign*
- Mandathorns*
- Neon Flower*
- Protection*
- Pulsing Snake*
- Radar Stopwatch*
- Spiral Magic*
- Swoop*
- Tunnel Drain*
- Woven Celtic*
- Woven Springs*
Lower Thirds*
- LT_blue double slant+anim*
- LT_blue double-still*
- LT_dashed underscore-still*
- LT_double bubble-still*
- LT_fade bar-still*
- LT_neutral gradient+anim*
- LT_neutral gradient-still*
- LT_red skew glow+anim*
- LT_slant underscore-still*
- LT_underhook-still*
Sprites – Animated
- Alien Face – animated
- Circular – cellular division
- Dancing Knot
- Mandala – animated
- Phase Scope
- SpiroMandala
- TwinkleStar
Sprites – Animated 2*
- Pulsing Circles*
- Spiralgear*
- Sunflower – animated*
Sprites – Still
- Alien Calligraphy
- Alien Face
- Box – dashed lines
- Bullseye
- Circular – half round
- Circular – tri dash
- Crosshair – brackets
- Crosshair – round
- Crosshair – square
- Fan Blades
- Flower Power
- Gear
- Holy Light
- Indian Sun
- Mandala
- RayStar-4
- RayStar-8
- Rounded Bracket – beveled
- Rounded Bracket – double
- Seaside Daisy
- Tri Cog
Sprites – Still 2*
- Spiral*
- Sunflower – still*
Symbol Families*
- Braille* (numbers, letters, punctuation, contractions, and fragments)
- I Ching* (hexagrams and trigrams)
- Pictograms*
- Schematic* (antennas, batteries, capacitors, diodes, grounds, inductors, logic symbols, resistors, transformers, transistors, tubes)
Synthetics
- Blue Bars
- Cells
- Digital
- Ethereal
- Gold Ambiance
- Lightning – Horizontal
- Lightning – Vertical
- Mosaic
- Orange Streaks
- Smoke – Drifting
- Starburst Spin
Text
3D Text
- 3D Basic Position Z Cascade
- 3D Basic Position Z Typeon
- 3D Basic Rotate X Cascade
- 3D Basic Rotate Y Cascade
- 3D Bouncing In Centered
- 3D Fall Back Scale & Skew
- 3D Fall Back Scramble & Blur
- 3D Flip In Rotate X
- 3D Flip Out Rotate X
- 3D Flip Up Reflection
- 3D Flutter In From Left
- 3D Flutter In Random Order
- 3D Flutter Out From Right
- 3D Fly Down & Unfold
- 3D Fly Down Behind Camera
- 3D Fly Down Random & Rotate Y
- 3D Lines Zoom In
- 3D Rain Down Words & Colors
- 3D Random Spike Tumble
- 3D Resolve Position
- 3D Rotate around Circle
- 3D Rotate in by Character
- 3D Rotate out by Word
- 3D Scramble in Position Z
- 3D Spiral Down & Unfold
- 3D Spiral Rotate In by Line
- 3D Spiral Rotate Out by Line
- 3D Swing Around on Path
- 3D Tumble Words Forward
- 3D Twist & Color Characters
3D Text 2*
- 3D Blur Flip Up Random*
- 3D Character Lineup*
- 3D Falling Like Leaves*
- 3D Flip Over Heels*
- 3D Fumble Up*
- 3D Ghost Landing*
- 3D Pop Forward Fadeout*
- 3D Pop Forward Unblur*
- 3D Take a Bow*
- 3D Triple Twist XYZ*
- 3D Tumble X and Turn*
- 3D Twisty Ribbons*
- 3D Unsteady Swing*
- 3D Words Jump in XYZ*
- 3D Words Wiggles in XYZ*
Animate In
- Center Spiral
- Characters Shuffle In
- Decoder Fade In
- Drop In By Character
- Espresso Eye Chart
- Fade Up And Flip
- Fade Up Characters
- Fade Up Lines
- Fade Up Words
- Fly In From Bottom
- Fly In With A Twist
- Pop Buzz Words
- Raining Characters In
- Random Fade Up
- Random Shuffle In
- Random Word Shuffle In
- Slow Fade On
- Smooth Move In
- Spin In By Character
- Spin In By Word
- Straight In By Character
- Straight In By Word
- Straight In Multi-Line
- Stretch In Each Line
- Stretch In Each Word
- Twirl On Each Line
- Twirl On Each Word
- Typewriter
- Wipe In To Center
Animate Out
- Encoder Fade Out
- Fade Out By Character
- Fade Out Slow
- Raining Characters Out
- Random Fly Off
- Random Word Fly Off
- Slide Off Right By Character
- Slide Off Right By Word
- Stretch Out Each Line
- Stretch Out Each Word
- Twirl Off Each Line
- Twirl Off Each Word
Blurs
- Blur By Word
- Bullet Train
- Evaporate
- Foggy
- Jiggy
- Transporter
Curves and Spins
- Bloom Flower
- Clockwise Entry
- Counter Rotate
- Dust Devil
- Lasso Tumble
- Lasso
- Musical Chairs
- Newton
- Pinwheel
- Radial Flare
- Retrograde
- Rotate
- Somersault
- Spin Fast
- Spiral Exit
- Spiral In
- Spirograph
- Swoopy Entry
- Tea Leaves
- Tire Rim
- Whirl In
Expressions
- Buzz Words
- Current Time Format
- Dictionary
- Frame Number
- Inch Worm
- Text Bounce
Fill and Stroke
- Chasing Strokes
- Fill Color Wipe
- Flicker Color – scale
- Flicker Color
- Flicker Green
- Inflammation
- Pulse Blue
- Pulse Orange
- Pulsing Strokes
- Rotate Hue
- Sliding Color Flicker
- Stroke Ease Down
- Wiggly Stroke Width By Line
- Wiggly Stroke Width
Graphical
- Bars Blinky
- Bars Lime
- Blue Note
- Cut Shapes
- Exchange
- Green Dots
- Hazard
- Red Circles
- Scratchy Film
- Snowflakes
- White Trim
- Yellow Boxes
Lights and Optical
- Blue Flash
- Broadway
- Bubble Pulse
- Emerge
- Exposure
- Flash
- Flicker Exposure
- Fluctuate
- Fluorescent Light
- Office Light
- Overlay
- Pulse Exposure
- Shadows
- Silhouettes
- Sonar Ping
- Spin Flash
- Word Flash
Mechanical
- Algorithm Loop
- Algorithm
- Automation
- Bad Reception
- Doppler
- Electro Magnet
- Helicopter
- Insert Text
- Kinematic
- Mechanical
- Pistons
- Rack & Pinion
- Roadtrip
- Scale Bounce
- Screen Roll
- Stairstep
- Submarine
- Underscore
- Warp 9.8
Miscellaneous
- Angle Fly-In
- Back Flip
- Blow Away
- Bounce In
- Bungee
- Chaotic
- Clay Pigeons
- Dot.Com
- Elbow Room
- Explosion
- Hop, Skip, And A Jump
- Pendulum
- Punching Bag
- Question
- Rattle
- Roll Bounce
- Sequential Jump
- Six-Shooter
- Slide Bounce
- Slip In Out
- Smokey
- Squeeze
- Superhero
- Swing Up
- Twisty Ribbons
- Vanishing Point
- Wiggly Lines
- Yo-Yo
Multi-Line
- Alphabet Soup
- Contract – Expand
- Currents
- Data Packet
- Data Stream
- Dealer
- Encryption
- Fly In By Characters
- Fly In By Words
- Front – Back
- Frontside – Backside
- Ideas
- Incoming
- Jetstream 2
- Jetstream
- Multi-Line Flip
- Outgoing – Incoming
- Pneumatic
- Production
- Stack Right Left
- Weekdays
- Word Processor
- Zippy
Organic
- Autumn
- Boiling
- Boomerang
- Bounce Diagonal
- Chewing Gum
- Climber
- Dip-Bounce
- Double-Helix
- Drop Bounce
- Fish Bait
- Flutter
- Flying Formation
- Horsefly
- Hummingbird
- Insect Wipe
- Insects
- Labrador
- Leapfrog
- Loose Line
- Ocean Tide
- Quiver
- Ripple
- Rubber Floor
- Rubber
- Sea-Sick
- Shuffle
- Simmer
- Slice And Dice
- Sprouts
- Tag Team
- Wheatfield
- Wind Current
- Wobble
Paths
- 360 Loop
- Antelope
- Ants
- Back Stage
- Balance
- Balloon Man
- Balloon
- Bouncing
- Bubble Pop
- Bump And Slide On
- Centipede
- Circuit Board
- Conveyor Belt
- Double Spiral
- Down And Out
- Downhill Slide Off
- Downhill Slide On
- Frenzy
- Hurdles
- Karate Chop
- Loop On And Off
- Lyrical
- Organism
- Paper Clip
- Pipes
- Raquetball
- Rat Nest
- Reel To Reel
- Rope Bridge
- Serpent
- Slippery Slope
- Spiral Long
- Spiral
- Springy
- Squirmy
- Stairwell
- Symmetry
- Tchotchke
- Walk Of Stars
- Zig-Zag
Rotation
- Drip Down
- Flip Up
- Full Rotation
- Loopy Loop
- Random Rotation
- Rotate Chars
- Rotate Per Word
- Spin In
- Swirly Rotation
- Whirlwind
Scale
- Large Scale
- Let’s Dance
- Scale Down Word
- Scale Down
- Scale Up Word
- Scale Up
- Wiggly Scale Wipe
- Zoom Away
- Zoom Forward
Tracking
- Contract
- Decrease Tracking
- Extend
- Increase Tracking
- Magnify
- Spasm
- Stretchy
Transform
- Separate XYZ Position
Transitions
Transitions – Dissolves
- Block Dissolve – digital
- Block Dissolve – random
- Block Dissolve – scanlines
- Boxes – concentric NTSC
- Boxes – concentric PAL
- Boxes – random NTSC
- Boxes – random PAL
- Boxes – stroked NTSC
- Boxes – stroked PAL
- Dissolve – blobs
- Dissolve – dither
- Dissolve – ripple
- Dissolve – sand
- Dissolve – unmelt
- Dissolve – vapor
- Fade – dip to black
- Fade – flash to white
- Fade – overexposed
- Ovals – concentric NTSC
- Ovals – concentric PAL
- Ovals – random NTSC
- Ovals – random PAL
Transitions – Movement
- Card Wipe – 2D fractured
- Card Wipe – 3D pixelstorm
- Card Wipe – 3D swing
- Fly to Inset
- Slide – drop
- Slide – straight
- Slide – swoop
- Slide – variable
- Stretch & Blur
- Stretch & Slide
- Stretch – diagonal bottom
- Stretch – diagonal top
- Stretch – horizontal
- Stretch – vertical
- Stretch Over – horizontal
- Stretch Over – vertical
- Zoom – 2D spin
- Zoom – 3D tumble
- Zoom – bubble
- Zoom – spiral
- Zoom – wobbling
Transitions – Wipes
- Band Wipe – build NTSC
- Band Wipe – build PAL
- Band Wipe – crossing NTSC
- Band Wipe – crossing PAL
- Band Wipe – zigzag NTSC
- Band Wipe – zigzag PAL
- Barn Doors
- Checker Wipe – NTSC
- Checker Wipe – PAL
- Clam Shell
- Clock Wipe
- Corner Reveal
- Grid Wipe
- Iris – cross
- Iris – diamond
- Iris – points
- Iris – round
- Iris – square
- Iris – star unfold
- Iris – star
- Iris – sunburst unfold
- Iris – sunburst
- Linear Wipe
- Paint On – NTSC
- Paint On – PAL
- Radial Wipe – bottom
- Radial Wipe – top
- Venetian Blinds
- Wedge Wipe
Source of List of animation:Adobe.com


1 Comment
collection Boston on June 22, 2011 at 4:11 pm.
hello as i have read about the adobe its use in most of the billing software its a wonderfull application i have seen so far thanks for the information