Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Infinite Horizon allows you to create custom, 3D perspective-bending scenes from your footage or photos in Adobe After Effects. Learn more at creationeffects.com/infinite-horizon.
Full Description: "Infinite Horizon" is an After Effects template that allows users to create mind-blowing, perspective-bending scenes from your footage or photos in Adobe After Effects. Simply drop in your landscape or waterscape footage, mark where the horizon is, and then open one of the 14 presets to see your footage manipulated, bent, or curved in different ways. Everything is customizable, allowing you to create a variety of surreal, other-worldly perspectives. Customize the bend, shadows, highlights, and background with easy-to-use controls. The 3D comps allow you to convert your bent landscapes into 3D scenes, allowing you to animate a camera through and around your landscape in three dimensions. Bend or curve 2D layers in real 3D with the included "Layer Bender" tool. Create intricate kaleidoscope animations from your footage.
Watch this After Effects tutorial to learn how to create perspective-bending scenes from your footage: youtu.be/yvwRerL32aU
Template Features:
Compatible with Both HD and 4K Footage
Works with photos - Add movement to your landscape using the customization controls. Animate the camera in three dimensions to create a 3D animation with a parallax effect - all from a single still photo.
14 Presets - Each preset bends or curves your footage in a different way. You can customize the bend, add new bends, or combine multiple presets to create a variety of unique perspectives.
Easy Customization - Customize the scenes with easy slider controls. Detailed instructions are found throughout the template.
3D Options - Each preset offers some kind of 3D capability. Most presets use a technique called "Projection Mapping", allowing you to animate your camera in three dimensions around your scene. Since it uses 3D layers, you can adjust the depth of field blurring for a greater sense of 3D depth.
Shadows, Highlights, and Background - These optional elements can add realism and depth to your scene.
Layer Bender - The Layer Bender allows you to bend or curve 2D layers in three dimensions. This is not normally possible in After Effects. Add custom curves to footage, photos, precomps, and solid layers. This tool could be useful to motion designers for many projects to come.
Kaleidoscope - Create complex symmetrical patterns from your footage. The patterns use depth of field and warping to simulate a 3D look when the camera is animated.
Infinite Horizon allows you to create custom, 3D perspective-bending scenes from your footage or photos in Adobe After Effects. Learn more at creationeffects.com/infinite-horizon.
Full Description: "Infinite Horizon" is an After Effects template that allows users to create mind-blowing, perspective-bending scenes from your footage or photos in Adobe After Effects. Simply drop in your landscape or waterscape footage, mark where the horizon is, and then open one of the 14 presets to see your footage manipulated, bent, or curved in different ways. Everything is customizable, allowing you to create a variety of surreal, other-worldly perspectives. Customize the bend, shadows, highlights, and background with easy-to-use controls. The 3D comps allow you to convert your bent landscapes into 3D scenes, allowing you to animate a camera through and around your landscape in three dimensions. Bend or curve 2D layers in real 3D with the included "Layer Bender" tool. Create intricate kaleidoscope animations from your footage.
Watch this After Effects tutorial to learn how to create perspective-bending scenes from your footage: youtu.be/yvwRerL32aU
Template Features:
Compatible with Both HD and 4K Footage
Works with photos - Add movement to your landscape using the customization controls. Animate the camera in three dimensions to create a 3D animation with a parallax effect - all from a single still photo.
14 Presets - Each preset bends or curves your footage in a different way. You can customize the bend, add new bends, or combine multiple presets to create a variety of unique perspectives.
Easy Customization - Customize the scenes with easy slider controls. Detailed instructions are found throughout the template.
3D Options - Each preset offers some kind of 3D capability. Most presets use a technique called "Projection Mapping", allowing you to animate your camera in three dimensions around your scene. Since it uses 3D layers, you can adjust the depth of field blurring for a greater sense of 3D depth.
Shadows, Highlights, and Background - These optional elements can add realism and depth to your scene.
Layer Bender - The Layer Bender allows you to bend or curve 2D layers in three dimensions. This is not normally possible in After Effects. Add custom curves to footage, photos, precomps, and solid layers. This tool could be useful to motion designers for many projects to come.
Kaleidoscope - Create complex symmetrical patterns from your footage. The patterns use depth of field and warping to simulate a 3D look when the camera is animated.

![Brushstroke Write-On Effect | After Effects Tutorial (for streaky calligraphy strokes)
This After Effects tutorial shows how to make realistic, calligraphic brush strokes with a write-on effect. Or you can download the animation preset at https://www.creationeffects.com/effects/scribe-after-effects-brushstroke.
The animation preset is just $19 and has customization controls and additional features not shown in this tutorial.
With this technique that uses the Echo effect, you can get a stroke with parallel streaks (like a paintbrush) and varied width (like a calligraphy pen). The stroke writes itself out as it follows a path that you draw with the Pen tool.
At 6:00, paste the following expression onto the Brush layers Rotation:
p1 = position.valueAtTime(time - thisComp.frameDuration);
p2 = position.valueAtTime(time);
value + radiansToDegrees(Math.atan2(p2[1] - p1[1], p2[0] - p1[0]));
at 8:45, paste this expression into the Echo Time property of the Echo effect:
s = effect(Echo Spacing)(Slider);
- thisComp.frameDuration / s;
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:54 Make a brush texture
02:03 Scribe (optional preset)
03:07 Draw a path
05:30 Adding streaks
07:07 Echo effect
10:01 Keying out streaks
10:51 Compositing and color
11:40 Roughen edges
11:54 Rotating & scaling brush
14:40 Mixed Media Effect Brushstroke Write-On Effect | After Effects Tutorial (for streaky calligraphy strokes)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nNPEFPg4w4s/mqdefault.jpg)





![Exploding SpaceX Rocket! 🚀 After Effects Tutorial for Meteor Shower, Rocket Debris, Shooting Stars
This After Effects tutorial shows you how to create a meteor shower or rocket debris effect, inspired by the SpaceX Starship explosion in January 2025. We’ll start by making a simple shooting star, then modify it into a comet or asteroid, and finally create a shower of meteors burning up in the atmosphere—no plugins needed! This tutorial moves fast — be ready to learn a lot about Adobe After Effects and the CC Particle World effect, and when youre done, youll have an awesome animation!
To download AfterGlow and Creation Lens Flares, go to https://www.creationeffects.com and head to the Freebies page. These two 100% free tools are optional but will enhance the tutorial animation and elevate your future projects.
AfterGlow (free download) – An installable preset for a larger, more intense glow in After Effects
Creation Lens Flares (free download) – An AE template with 50 customizable lens flares
Sky image link (free download) – https://pixabay.com/photos/sunset-sky-sun-light-clouds-7446150/
Tree image link (free download) – https://pixabay.com/zh/photos/tree-poland-summer-evening-sunset-5330308/
Make space animations with Space Effects: https://www.creationeffects.com/space-effects
Make 3D landscapes with Landscaper: https://www.creationeffects.com/landscaper
Make custom bird animations with Flocks: https://www.creationeffects.com/flocks
EXPRESSIONS: Put the following three expressions in the Producer section of the CC Particle World effect. Make sure a Layer Control is on the layer named Follow Layer, and set it to the Null layer you want to follow.
Position X:
x = effect(Follow Layer)(Layer).transform.position[0]/thisLayer.width;
value - (thisLayer.width/2)/thisLayer.width + x;
Position Y:
x = effect(Follow Layer)(Layer).transform.position[1]/thisLayer.width;
value - (thisLayer.height/2)/thisLayer.width + x;
Position Z:
x = effect(Follow Layer)(Layer).transform.position[2]/thisLayer.width;
value - (thisLayer.width/2)/thisLayer.width + x + 0.5;
To make your lens flare follow your comet or meteor, put the following expression on the Lens Flare Position property, inside the Global Controls, on your lens flare layer:
L=thisComp.layer(Comet Position);
L.toComp([0,0,0]);
Additional Links:
Mixed Media Effect - https://www.creationeffects.com/mixed-media-effect
Swarms - https://www.creationeffects.com/swarms
Schools - https://www.creationeffects.com/schools
Wisp - https://www.creationeffects.com/wisp
Creation Trippy Effects - https://creationeffects.com/creation-trippy-effects
Infinite Horizon - https://www.creationeffects.com/infinite-horizon
0:00 Intro
1:19 Create a shooting star
3:01 Make it follow a Null layer
4:56 CC Particle World properties
7:26 Create a comet
13:47 Add a glow
16:02 Add a lens flare
19:15 Other FX made in AE
21:05 Create a meteor shower
29:47 Additional VFX templates Exploding SpaceX Rocket! 🚀 After Effects Tutorial for Meteor Shower, Rocket Debris, Shooting Stars](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pvkasCt0K0M/mqdefault.jpg)


