The Most Useful Technique You'll Ever Learn

This is your Swiss Army Knife of a technique: a hundred immediate uses and hundreds more that you will discover over time. Here's an in-depth look at one of the most useful tricks you'll ever learn: a core technique in visual effects and motion graphics, and we'll start with a deep dive into how blur actually works and build our own simple blur filter right inside Apple Motion. You'll come away knowing so much useful stuff - it's a tutorial that's well worth your time.
Cell Division Tutorial: • Apple Motion: Cell Div...

[@mdjwww5]

So happy to get indepth understanding of blur and so many other effects from you Simon

[@toddlask]

great info!

[@pixelrancher]

Cool effects on this one, Simon. Thanks.

[@KingZero69]

this is another amazing technique… you are truly a genius 💪

[@DansplainingVideo]

It’s very helpful to see this kind of deep dive into specific filters.

[@JasonRamasami]

This was the main thing I wanted to take from the cell division tutorial and here it is. I was also very confused by the opacity labelling difference and for a few minute felt like a blind man wandering about in the dark. There is so much that is wonderfully organic about the output of this. I am seeing cloud animations and much more. Thankyou.

[@Rockysvideostation]

Exciting technique! Thank you Simon for sharing!

[@Richard_Broom_Photography]

Very useful Simon...I will experiment! Thanks for all your hard work.

[@nacelloman]

very very useful! Many thanks

[@peterlawrence5114]

Consistently some of the best tutorials on this platform. Thanks for the great work!

[@SimonUbsdell]

Thank you so much.

[@JBManos-gg2zm]

Whoa! Love it! Especially the maths explanation - Thanks Simon!

[@WaynePolcin]

Thanks for great effort you put into your videos, even though you make it all look so effortless. I am a novice Motion user, but in all my learnings I have found that the more you study the deep things of something, the better you become at the basic things. Thank you so much for these in-depth videos!

[@GarrettBM]

Simply excellent, thank you for such useful tutorials! and as kind of an aside, the choice of font, also fit very well. I obtained that REZ font myself, again, thank you.

[@JRossHunter]

Your videos are like taking a really interesting class.

[@SimonUbsdell]

Thank you!

[@joshgreenwalt508]

I loved this one. I could def see myself using this for a lava lamp / mercury style effect. Will definitely need to chew on it a bit more.

[@SimonUbsdell]

Thanks. I would just say: don't think of it a s single effect. I spent more time that I meant to on the gloopy look but really this is the most versatile *concept* in motion graphics and visual effects. Think of it rather as one of the very essential tools in your toolkit.

[@frankleemorris2431]

is that the blur of the common people?