Making textured shadows in After Effects using tracked masks

[@Rombododecaedron]

Happy to see you again!

[@Workbenchtv]

Haha, I said the same thing on your other comment! Same!

[@Rombododecaedron]

@@Workbenchtv I missed you :). Today I decided to check if there is something new on your channel - and It was nice surprise :)

[@Workbenchtv]

@@Rombododecaedron Awesome!

[@chucho927]

Good tutors! Don't stop

[@Workbenchtv]

Can't stop. Won't stop. :)

[@felipedardis8794]

Man, your content and web site are unbelievable! Thank you! Wish your channel grow more. God bless you!

[@Workbenchtv]

Thanks! It'd probably help if we had a moment to make some more videos. :)

[@jamesml69]

@@Workbenchtv Good to know you are not gone! One of the few good voices in tutorials!

[@Workbenchtv]

@@jamesml69Thanks! Not gone, just really busy. We have some tutorials in the works though.

[@Richard_Bumblebee]

I tried to find you after I saw you get a call out on Ben Marriott's Channel and I gotta say it was pretty hard trying to find you underneath all the work bench videos.

[@Workbenchtv]

Haha, sorry. Add After Effects to it and you'll find us every time. :) Thanks for keeping up the search!

[@anarmovsumov5112]

Could you please tell me what is the nice looking colourful plugin in the left bottom corner of the timeline?

[@Workbenchtv]

It's a script called Labels. This needs to be updated, but it's a list of many of the tools we use. -> workbench.tv/blog/2018-11-20_Tools2

[@anarmovsumov5112]

@@Workbenchtv thanks a bunch!

[@Workbenchtv]

@@anarmovsumov5112 You're welcome!

[@AndrewMarston]

createPaths once again coming in handy. You think you'll be back to weekly videos?

[@Workbenchtv]

Haha, I wish. We have some ideas for larger stuff we'd like to do and thought maybe if the pandemic slowed us down we could. But it hasn't. Sev has a couple in the works, but neither of us really has a ton of time right now unfortunately.

[@AndrewMarston]

@@Workbenchtv Understandable. Well, I'll take what I can get.

[@Workbenchtv]

@@AndrewMarston Haha, sorry man. Also, forgot to mention, createPaths is something people-myself included-clamored for for years. There's a few things I'd still like access to, but yeah, it opens up a world of possibilities in AE.

[@AndrewMarston]

@@Workbenchtv Definitely. The addition of the Javascript engine was a huge step forward.

[@Workbenchtv]

@@AndrewMarston That too. They've done good things as far as expressions go. But I'd always love more! Houdini! :)

[@Enflict]

Is there a way to instruct effects to follow null object values in reverse? Like take x and y tracking info and do the exact opposite?

[@Workbenchtv]

Sure. If you're using this technique, you subtract the offset instead of add it. Use -= where we used += in the code.

[@Enflict]

Awesome, thank you!

[@Workbenchtv]

@@Enflict You're welcome!

[@Snappy27893]

he does everything so good but only if he understands that zooming on somepart would be of ao much help because you know youtube in india doesn't stream in more than 480 p

[@Workbenchtv]

The code is posted on our website (the project file link above goes to the code as well), and that's the only part that should be hard to follow in low resolution. I always call out or put necessary information on our website because I don't like it when tutorials zoom, and it would add another step to the editing process. With already limited time on our end, that means the alternative is that we wouldn't be making videos. I hadn't seen anything about this 480p limit, but apparently it's been removed for many, and they're working on the rest according to this article: www.business-standard.com/article/technology/youtube-removes-480p-video-quality-cap-on-smartphones-but-not-for-everyone-120071700410_1.html

[@Snappy27893]

@@Workbenchtv No sir dont stop making videos they are so precious to expression noob like us ,I have got all the necessary information I need thanks for everything you do❤️🙏

[@Workbenchtv]

@@Snappy27893 👍🏽

[@theL_Rocks]

That sponsorship Segway was smooth

[@Workbenchtv]

Haha thanks. Technically it's self-promotion. 🙂

[@ganjasmoke1980]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Adhithya2003]

Man why aren't you posting ? Hope you are well.

[@Workbenchtv]

We're all good. Just very busy!

[@Adhithya2003]

@@Workbenchtv Ok joe , take care.

[@Workbenchtv]

@@Adhithya2003 Thank you! Take care! We hope you are well too!