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download iExpressions at Linking Colors in After Effects can be done very easily with the pick-whip and expressions. But what if you do not need exactly the same color, but a brighter or darker variant of it? With iExpressions you can create links that take the color of the linked property and then...

download iExpressions at In this tutorial we show how useful the ‘Connect Multiple Layers’ iExpression is for character rigging in After Effects. We use it to create the tentacles of a bee. The tentacles are controlled using some null layers and the expression creates a path that...

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In this tutorial, we use the Arrow Head iExpression to attach an arrow head to a path. If you change the path, the arrow head updates automatically and its appearance can be changed easily.

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In this tutorial we use the Sine Wave expression to create a cool effect with just shape layers and expressions. We use our extension iExpressions, which makes it very easy to create sine wave expressions and even bent and animate those waves along any path.

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In this tutorial we use the Pie Slice iExpression to create shape layers with the shape of a pie slice. This is very useful for creating charts and info graphics, for example. You can animate the radius and angles easily by linking the expression parameters to sliders.

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In this tutorial we use the wiggle expression, the elastic path expression and the trail expression to create an organic cartoon text animation in no time.

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In this tutorial we use the Snap2Grid iExpression to create a motion path along a grid and then use the Trail iExpression to create some shape layer based motion trail paths.

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We animate some solids with the Snapping Wiggle iExpression to move the layers from grid cell to grid cell randomly. Thanks to the iExpression, this creates a complex, distrinct animation in no time.

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