Beautiful Lighting & Shading in After Effects with Layer Styles

An easy After Effects tutorial on how to use layer styles to achieve a realistic 3D lighting, shading, gradients and reflection effect. This tutorial is suitable for beginners. Join the waitlist for my new advanced animation course: Join my discord server! Download the free project file: Download my other free project files: ​​ Other artists mentioned in this video: Steve Elliget: Johan Eriksson: Hieu Vu: I’m uploading new motion design & animation tutorials every Thursday! (Sometimes Monday too) ►Follow my ongoing adventures on Instagram: ►Please tag me on Instagram @ben_marriott_ if you’ve used any of the techniques from this video so I can see what awesome things you create ►Find me elsewhere! Vimeo: ​​ Facebook: ► I use Yellow Images for stock assets, fonts, and mockups (Affiliate link) ►Music: Massive thanks to madmomentsgo for providing that amazing music for my intro! check out his other brilliant work here: