10 Hacky After Effects Tricks to Improve your Renders

Look, sometimes you just need to get the job done quick and as painlessly as possible. You don’t have time to nuance each little detail and keyframe, you need a magic “make it better button!“ Well, such a thing doesn’t exist, but hopefully these 10 tricks, sourced from the Twitter hive-mind, will give you some new tools to whip out when it’s time to just get ’er done. After Effects Courses 🦶 After Effects Kickstart - 🥾 Animation Bootcamp - 🕺 Character Animation Bootcamp - 🎪 Explainer Camp - ➕ Expression Session - 🔬 Advanced Motion Methods - 💥 VFX for Motion - FREE School of Motion Courses 📍Beginner’s Guide to Design & Motion - 🗺 The Path to MoGraph - 🐦 Twitter thread of tricks 00:00 Intro 00:31 Add a Lens Flare 03:40 Diffusion on a Bduet 05:03 Grain it Up! 07:42 Chromatic Aberration FTW 10:00 Lens Blur 15:32 Lens Distortion 18:35 Ye Old Vignette 21:07 Wiggle It, Just a Little Bit 26:05 Zoomie Zoom 30:47 Texture for no Reason 34:28 Throw it on twos! 36:35 Roughen those Edges #aftereffects