Animating Fire in After Effects Quick & Easy!

This time I'll be revealing how to animate fire in a quick & easy way using After Effects. A 2D stylized fire in various styles to add impact to your motion graphics. Exploring traditional frame-by-frame animation in After Effects, shape path animation, the wiggle path effect, and CC Wide Time to create onion skins in After Effects.
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[@cozybowl3769]

love that while you're giving people an "easy way to make fire" you still do a great job of giving people the essential animation theory for what really sells a fire animation as fire. Great vid as always!

[@johanschneider4802]

Yes! this! the little flames going up and dissapearing really sell it!

[@benheuser2267]

Wow I have never thought to use Wide Time as an onion skinning tool, that is a game changer!

[@jadenkamau]

i swear

[@GianEditando]

Dude! I thought he was going to use some Echo effect, when I saw the Wide Time results im like... "This MF...."

[@keepplayingnice]

I literally broke into applause at that part. Genius

[@johanschneider4802]

This is so much better than everything else I found a day ago when I was desperately searching for way to quickly animate fire for a project :D I will use these tips next time for sure! Also the small note on the curves following the path of the flame in frame by frame really helped me wrap my head around how to approach animating this frame by frame

[@lucabuttner8883]

Thanks a lot! Yesterday I re-watched one second of your old introsequence a hundret times to figure out how you did the fire in it. And today you drop this awesome tutorial. Thank you! :)

[@nativelyornate]

Awesome video!! Love how you always include little bonus tips throughout your videos 💪👏

[@amirfld6375]

Amazing tutorial as always. thank you Ben, you always inspire me to go to Ae immediately and create something.

[@amysparrow6793]

I'm so pumped for your new course! I wanted to buy the "Advanced" but I really feel like a beginner still. Can't wait! :D

[@muzammilhalimov]

Can't wait for your Design course!

[@frankiesomeone]

love the use of wide time as a guide for animation!

[@The_Villi]

I love ALL your content Ben. You are the GOAT of Mograph.

[@deebsanimation2804]

Cc wide time just blew my mind! Simple but valuable tool!

[@keyframer.]

Thank you! Very concise and to the point! Thanks for all the tips!

[@pidgen3513]

Ben you’re blowing my mind once again! 🔥 🤯

[@MicDoesThings]

As always great work Ben!

[@CodyNitcher]

Awesome tips Ben, and as always, great music tracks 😀

[@paulalamkins]

CC Wide Time is a game-changer!!! Thanks!

[@dota2_with_matin609]

Big fan Ben, keep up the legendary work🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@secondhdra]

i love it, everytime you needed 2 weeks to find a great tutorial and finish smth, a better one comes up. Its fine :))))

[@Lobstrique]

this is so amazing!! thank you!)

[@bilalbrahimi]

thank you so much man always a help i love you video's

[@natureismyjam]

Thanks for this tutorial! Briliant!

[@GianEditando]

Have your like good sir. Awesome like always Ben! Love your creativity for effects, keep it up!

[@azure4302]

The best and only one ae tutorial maker

[@mkopke]

This was super helpful!

[@confdefracasado]

thanks for the tutorial this is so helpful

[@aescreens]

Straight 🔥

[@rimqo]

ㅎㅎ한동안 바빠서 눈팅만 했는데 매번 도움을 많이 받고 있습니다. 요즘 날씨도 많이 덥던데 건강 유의하시고 양질의 컨텐츠 감사합니다! :)

[@Jason_G_Animation]

CC Wide Time 🤯Finally, thank you! I have been looking this in AE since I have started doing more cel animation and moving away from motion graphics. It would be amazing if AE did have a good onion skinning system though 🤔 great tutorial!

[@allenleigh5201]

Excellent learning material.

[@psychod74]

finally thank you bro ! FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@MadAtGasCar]

Awesome time to upgrade from wave warp. Also the spread out keyframes proportionally tip is awesome

[@BenMarriott]

Wave warp, more like..... Time warp... back to the past because wave warp is old news! The era of wiggle paths has begun.

[@mediocreape]

great video, thanks man.

[@iCookMe]

Great AE stuff as always, learn so much from you're experimentation and wonderful explanations. This music is so fun!! Is it also one of your creations? I know you've said you've been experimenting more with sound stuff the last year or so

[@justketh4298]

i am on Ben Mariott loop today, 4 videos in got notificant for the 5th *sigh* like them all haha

[@BenMarriott]

Love to see a BM Binge! And best of all, there's no hangover!

[@elton6031]

​@@BenMarriott best kind of binge, haha

[@vorval96]

baby you got a stew going was hilarious and I didn't expect that!

[@artur_ry]

So Cool

[@luissjimbow]

Eres el mejor!

[@dhruvbehrani]

i love you!

[@shorttoon1994]

Awesome 👍😎

[@ValentinBlary]

I love how in every of your tutorial, i learn so much things/tools/tips, but never here for the main subject/project haha

[@joyboycowboy]

You are After Effects bedrock, and I am so glad you are.

[@doramn3276]

In every Ben Marriott's video I am waiting the quote "we always label our layer"

[@animatabledotco]

🔥

[@peyvand.motion]

😍😍😍

[@Pakistanikidsvlog]

Hey, thanks! But can you please tell me one thing? When I create an ellipse shape layer and use keyframes in After Effects, and then duplicate it after the Bezier, I don't see my duplicate ellipse keyframe. Even if I use the "U" shortcut.

[@fahmeedhasan8665]

i think it can be done by tubulance dispatch effect

[@vamboo8918]

👍

[@kaarthikarun9199]

Can you please make a video on some alternatives for AE and tutorials in it, as am not rich enough to afford it😢(student) but interested in learning motion graphics.

[@nerdsguideisaboringname]

please tell me you have the "WE ALWAYS LABEL OUR LAYERS" t-shirt

[@amirhosseinghaffari5292]

Hi ben i have request of you. Im from iran and we don't have access to credit card and.... . so we can't register at your master motion design course. My question is how did you jump into your microscope at your project about master...... I'll be thankful if you answer.

[@chaardewar]

[@BenMarriott]

Thanks my fire pal!

[@djcatnipcl]

thanks, i love lazy things

[@casualphysics840]

Yooo this video is 6:28 mins long. That's 2 times pi. Was that intentional ;)

[@BenMarriott]

:O You're on to me!

[@n01si4]

foorst

[@BenMarriott]

Like lightening!

[@n01si4]

@@BenMarriott first video I actually made it first lol, awesome tutorial man, thanks a bunch!

[@Pathorkuchimon]

There must be an easier way to do this.

[@Kevoonio]

why am i here. why did i watch the whole thing. i dont use after effects. i dont even animate. what.

[@bitspacemusic]

Instructions unclear. Fire department is on their way.

[@magiknizm]

First??

[@magiknizm]

😂

[@BenMarriott]

A valiant effort!

[@magiknizm]

@@BenMarriott thank you master! 🫡

[@romanushakov450]

This sparks method absolutely useless in real projects. Better and easier way is to create sparks shape and keyframe its position and scale. With pen tool adjust position path and also align rotation to the path so you won't need to mess around with all this keyframes. DONE. You can copy this layer billion times and only thing you need to adjust is position path

[@gerardorojas3856]

Hi Ben! First of all, thank you for your content! I was wondering if you could please help me out by creating a tutorial or giving me some tips on how to achieve the "old paper texture ink bleed" effect from the Diablo 3 cinematic intro. I've been trying to figure it out but haven't had much luck so far. Thanks in advance! this is an example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZOagn2thppripI

[@dev_jono]

Benny M always coming with the 🔥vids. Next time i'll walk with my 🧯