Minimax & Long Shadows | Effects of After Effects

In this quick tutorial, I explain how to use the Minimax effect in Adobe After Effects. We'll also take a look at how to use the effect to create a long shadow or faux 3D extrusion.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:06 Minimax
03:55 Long Shadows
03:13 Thanks for watching!

[@jmrozek21]

I just can't say enough about this series. Just amazing. So many effects I had no idea even existed. Your presentation and oration style is perfect. Thank you for making these! Keep it up!

[@obv_design9310]

This series is like a Holly Grail! :) Thank you so much, Jake!

[@headcrab4]

Bro. Using two transform effects to re-angle something that's limited to one axis? That's genius! Transform has always been one of my favorite effects due to all the weird stuff you can do with it. Just got even better!

[@JakeInMotion]

Totally! Though I can't take credit; I learned that trick from the tutorial I referenced in the video.

[@brokenstudiotv]

Jake, thanks for this amazing batch of tutorials! Really fun to see built-in effects being used in different ways.

[@mayjia5192]

so glad to see you back on youtube again! please do keep making these !! they're super helpful

[@RainSoxx]

Loving this series! Only wish I could binge watch them all now lol

[@loopiqueworks9292]

These mini tuts are very useful!!! Please do more 🔥🔥🔥

[@Fsansone0514]

This blew my mind. Thanks for this amazing series it will be a game changer.

[@NyoraiFidesTV]

This effects series it's amazing!!!! Keep going pleaseeeee 🥰

[@deebsanimation2804]

🤯 so dope! Loving the new content!

[@evgeniicherniak3332]

The best as always.

[@Awakenbeing]

You are true teacher, I always learnt a great deal of stuff from you videos, Thnx man👍 !!

[@angrypotato_fz]

I like drilling down with effects - you try to learn one, but you get a few bonus ones reminded :D

[@monojit6820]

Keep em coming jake 😄

[@BrandonFoy]

exactly what I was looking for, thank you!

[@Wisdom2thMusic]

Another amazing tutorial thanks man

[@pabitrakumarpradhan]

thank you a lot for these effects series.

[@New_Talent]

Man, I absolutely LOVE the quality of your content!!

[@JakeInMotion]

Thank you!

[@BadFlashes]

Minimax is awesome! Love seeing how this with with motion graphics. I’ve used Min then Max or max then min for VFX applications throughout the years. It’s good for removing blemishes or painting out small things inside the frame. I know it’s not graphics related but useful non the less. Btw binging you right now 😆

[@KyleWoodard]

Very cool effect!!

[@AbdulRehman-ru6pj]

Loving it❤

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

I love the addition of a practical application. That was missing from someone your earlier videos.

[@elissitdesign]

⭐️ Transform is underrated.

[@JakeInMotion]

Agreed.

[@aliakll4090]

Wonderful series

[@yodidos]

Actually i am watching your Tutorial right now on skill share "The Beginner's Guide to Adobe After Effects" and also so excited for this tutorials ❤

[@charlieyuncken7674]

These are excellent

[@harishd3303]

Jake is awesome🤩

[@nocontextgonzalo]

bro you are a legend, greetings from Argentina

[@n3rdyz00m]

4:49 This had me LOL :D

[@wondong3258]

So cool!

[@milesmatic2872]

great video on after effects!

[@junkster101]

Incredible

[@dermotfaloon_streetmonkey]

Big congrats on your channel - I wish you all the best showing uses for these effects. If i was Adobe I would have the effect mouseover link to these videos. Being an AE user for 20 years I have used most of these effects before but I have rejected a ton over time for third party things. Your videos show me I should use some of these again as they are often more useful than they appear.

[@JakeInMotion]

Thank you so much!

[@randallhernandez1644]

Thanks a lot!!

[@francofx]

CC Composite is a clutch!

[@romaindaniel5773]

Sick !

[@keyframequest]

This is fantastic! I have been trying to add another offset that makes it look like the text extrudes the other way (imagine the text on a surface and growing upwards). Havent managed to nail it yet though!

[@rabiatalay6782]

i love you bro🎉

[@philipjhorton]

You could keyframe that shadow rotation to make an awesome fake timelapse effect :D

[@fermunguia]

Está muy chido 😁😁

[@driaan_louw]

Very noice, I've tried figuring out what to use minmax for before to no avail.

[@mathiasreusser7314]

Where did you learn after effects? I mean so deeply. Are there secret schools or adobe exclusive lessons? I mean, no KZbin channel is gonna teach me that level of understanding right?

[@a.forabeer]

you awesome

[@janus1450]

Very Easy to do !!! You're joking i suppose ! But great tutorial and keep going for the following effects. Thank you Bro

[@danielcrompton7818]

Hi Jake, I've tried this and after saving the effect as a Preset and applying it to a text layer, I have seen an error -- the shadow is slightly offset from the original shape. Do you know what to do?

[@jaysonfontela5761]

💖

[@the_greck]

"The Minimax effect assigns each channel of a pixel the minimum or maximum value for that channel found within a specified radius." WHAT?? It's almost like they wrote the AE User Guide to confuse people. Don't they want users to actually know how their software works? I never would've known what half these effects are even for without this series, and I've been using AE professionally for over 10 years.

[@leonelsantos6517]

Naice.

[@LuiNogueira]

Pretty cool tutorial! Please explain how set matte works, this effect doesn't make sense for me, sometimes he works, sometimes not.

[@RainSoxx]

Oh boy, the set matte effect really annoys me too and I wish they would improve it. Particularly when resizing/animating the referenced layer, how it doesn't effect the matte itself. Really annoying & stupid. I know a standard layer matte mode would do the trick, but once you need to matte multiple layers from the same layer it becomes a right pita and gets messy quick.

[@JakeInMotion]

Set Matte is coming up in a few days.

[@placewhereyourheartis9445]

That’s awesome 👍 can you teach me how to do the intro font?

[@JakeInMotion]

I'll be making a tutorial for that.

[@iLovG]

Can we say this effect is used (or some other similar effect) to animate the N on Netflix logo at the beggining of the episode?

[@francesco5509]

+ or _ matte, choker but maintains colors

[@benjaminlesaffre]

I can't get the effects to work on a logo like you, when increasing the radius with the defaults parameters I get a completely different result...

[@vfxshaga5606]

awwwwwwwwwwwwwww................

[@jamesklark6562]

my text is centered in the middle of the shadow cast, any ideas on what I messed up?

[@GeorgeDrumm]

this is pretty advanced, I can follow it but feel it could be explained a bit more slower and indepth for us slow brainers lol

[@lopsangdlama]

I wonder if the shadows on intro texts had minimax effect

[@JakeInMotion]

I actually hadn't learned that technique before designing the title, but I definitely would if I made it now. The minimax technique renders much more quickly and uses a lot less effects than the technique I used.

[@diegomarinho1322]

does anyone have this expression?

[@Daniel-up8nf]

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