50 Top After Effects Projects and Templates to Watch in 2020
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If you're looking to create some fantastic video productions in 2020 then let us help you along with with 50 of our favourite Adobe After Effects templates!
The following templates are a mix of Envato Elements, where you can download as many as you like for one low monthly subscription and Envato Market, where you can pay as you go.
Broadcast Packages
Having
continuity across all elements of your broadcast is important: It looks
more professional, but it also makes it easier to watch for your
audience. A broadcast package is a simple way to make sure your various
graphics, text styles and animations have continuity and complement one
another.
Dark Fields is
a cool and fast-paced broadcast package. It includes an opener, closing
credits, three animated backgrounds, lower-thirds, and much more. It’s
easy to customise and there’s a link to the music used in the preview.
Includes
the broadcast standards of openers, transitions, lower thirds and so
on, but also with 11 social icons to help you cross-promote your
channels.
Create a stunning-looking cookery show with the Cook With Us package, complete with fruit and veg bumper; cute!
Elements
Where
would we be without the people who create the things we just don't know
we need... until we need them! No matter how great we get at titles or
lower thirds, creating specific graphic elements can just be too big an
ask, so it's handy to be able to choose from templates that already
exist and can just be customised to suit.
One of my favourite ever templates, Audio Visualizer has
super-cute animations reacting to music. Just add your audio, logo and
change colours to create something fun and unique. Best of all, there
are six animation ‘monsters’ to choose from.
Shapes, speech bubbles, countdown clocks, call outs, film credits... you name it and it's likely this huge elements pack has it!
Infographics
Displaying
data is a tricky balance between getting your information across and
keeping your audience awake! Infographics are a great visual tool for
showing off facts, figures and statistics in a way that will interest a
viewer, inform them and best of all, help them to understand your data
in a simplified, pleasing way.
Containing 14 scenes with different animations, the Flat Inforgraphics template for After Effects will
get your information across in style. There’s full expression control
and you can customise in just a few clicks. It’s easy to use, too: just
drag and drop your content.
This mega bundle has over 350 elements and scenes, so you'll be all set to create your explainer video or presentation.
Logo Stings
Don't
just plonk your logo on screen, make the reveal part of your brand.
Many production houses change their logo reveal slightly depending on
the style of film they're making. It's a great way to be creative and
relevant to your current project, while still displaying your
all-important brand.
Architect Logo Reveal is
an elegant sketch-to-fleshed-out logo reveal. Obviously suited to
projects centred around architecture, it could also work well for real
estate videos or graphic design companies. You can customise the logo,
tagline and colours with this template.
Who doesn't love a splash of nostalgia, and replicating an 80s look is very 'on trend' right now!
Openers
Your
opener is your first chance to capture your viewer's attention and
impress them. Try opener templates that fit your genre of movie and add
professionalism and style to the production.
Fast-paced and with high accuracy music synchronisation, this template is great for high-energy projects.
Product Promo
Showing
off your product in a professional, creative way is an integral part of
marketing. Using a slideshow means you can choose something that looks
great and is as easy to use as dragging and dropping your product images
or video into the placeholders provided.
Simply
place your media into the template to create an impressive ‘explainer’
video. It’s easy to customise and quick to render, so you’ll be able to
create great projects in no time at all. There’s even a step by step
tutorial included to help you get started.
A nice generic promo template that would suit a wide range of businesses.
Titles
Consistency
is key with titles, but you don't want them to be boring either. A
great titles template is one that offers a recognisably uniform style
but offers the flexibility of subtle changes like colour, so that you
can make it right for your video.
A modular and well-organised template, Liquid Animation Titles is
a colourful and entertaining way to introduce your project. There are
110 animated strokes and nine text scenes to choose from, with the
further option of creating your own.
Realistic neon effects await you with this After Effects template - just type your text, add details and you're good to go.
Video Displays
If
you're showing off images or video in a slideshow then why not do it
with one that's themed to the style of your project? A template is a
time-saving way to display your wares and make a nice-looking end
product to boot.
A nice twist on the usual corporate slideshows, Skyscraper holds
a huge 252 videos or photos. Animations are fast and upbeat and each
segment can act as a standalone template, with six segments to choose
from.
A cinematic, high-drama slideshow which is simple to customise to fit your project.
Learn How to Make Amazing Special Effects in After Effects
If
you're ready to move on to the creative aspects of video editing, we
have some great step by step courses to help you learn—and the best part
is, they're all included as part of an Envato Elements subscription.
If you're not quite ready for these then you may like to try Adobe After Effects for Beginners,
which will take you through the basics of the software first, helping
you get to know it through lessons on settings, and how to create things
like masks, shapes and text.
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