Lately, I’ve been thinking a bit about the “Haunted Painting Effect.” That’s my own name for a certain kind of optical illusion that periodically surfaces online. The most commonly circulated examples ...

If you’ve ever watched an animation you made in After Effects and thought, “this works, but it doesn’t feel right,” you’re ...

Another classic visual illusion is the waterfall illusion, which relies on a phenomenon called motion after-effect. After staring at a waterfall – or a similar moving-yet-static object such as a ...

Along with a host of other announcements made as part of the kick-off to the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, where Adobe is a ...

The forthcoming After Effects 25 will debut a major set of improvements to make it easier to animate and blend 3D objects seamlessly with real-world footage and 2D elements. Customers have been ...

Adobe After Effects 26.0 adds new features and updates, focusing on enhancing motion design and compositing. Key updates include ...

In this After Effects tutorial, you'll learn how to create a fake stop motion text effect without any third-party plugins. We'll use simple techniques like text animation, the Wiggle expression, and ...