After Effects Quick Tips by Core of Creative

32 short videos, 44 minutes total. This is After Effects stripped down to just the useful bits — no long intros, one trick per video. You get Displacement Map, CC Particle World, chrome type, cleanup and workflow hacks you can use the same day.

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Use distortion effects like Displacement Map, Turbulent Displace and Time Displacement with control
• Build chrome / metallic text and break down exactly how the stack works
• Do fast cleanup: content-aware fill, stabilizing shaky footage, and patching missing pixels with Alpha
• Create stylized looks: CRT monitor, ASCII, kaleidoscope, heat haze, anamorphic glass fake, confetti
• Attach layers to animated paths and fake 2D-to-3D photo moves
• Speed up daily work with batch text editing, keyframe spacing, multi-window setup and fast previews

✅ Requirements

• Skills: Basic familiarity with After Effects UI, layers and keyframes
• Tools: After Effects latest release, After Effects Beta for one what’s-new lesson
• Hardware: Desktop or laptop capable of running After Effects, minimum 16GB RAM, dedicated GPU recommended

📝 Description

This isn’t a start-to-finish course. It’s a running series of quick hits. Each video is around a minute, shows one problem and fixes it. Perfect when you don’t have time for a 40-minute tutorial.

The core of it is the Effects Encyclopedia format. Instead of guessing sliders, you see what Turbulent Displace, Motion Tile vs CC RepeTile, and blur variants actually do to pixels. Short side-by-sides, so you remember which one to grab next time.

Then it gets fun with looks. Chrome typography is broken down in three parts, so you see the full stack, not just a preset. Plus Content-Aware Fill, CRT, ASCII, heat haze and glass fakes — all built with native effects, no paid plugins needed.

🧑‍🎓 Who this course is for

• Motion designers who know AE basics and want faster solutions for daily tasks
• Editors and freelancers who need quick VFX fixes like stabilization, cleanup and tracking
• Students of the After Effects Masterclass Parts 1-3 who want free bite-size extras

🧑‍🏫 About the Author

Core of Creative runs the After Effects Masterclass series from Basics to Advanced, plus this ongoing Quick Tips feed. Their thing is short, practical demos aimed at working motion designers. If you’re enrolled in Masterclass Part 1, 2 or 3, this series is included free and keeps growing toward 50 lessons.

🏁 Final Result

• A personal library of 32 reusable mini-setups: chrome text, particle confetti, retro screens, distortion systems, cleanup and tracking recipes, plus a faster preview and batch-edit workflow