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3 Top Día de Muertos Video Templates for After Effects

3 Top Día de Muertos Video Templates for After Effects

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November 2nd 2020, is Día de Muertos in Mexico and other American countries. On the "Day of the Dead," family and friends get together to pray and remember those who've died.

The festival is very much a celebration, filled with colour, dancing, parties, and of making offerings to loved ones at an altar (ofrenda) or cemetery. Learn more about Day of the Dead.

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3 Top Video Templates for Día de Muertos

Here are three of our favourite templates from Envato Market and Envato Elements, to help you mark Día de Muertos with a video.

1. Dia De Muertos Opener

Try this lovely title sequence or opener for Adobe After Effects. It has eight placeholders for text and you won’t need any plugins to use it; plus help is included in the download if you get stuck when customising the template.

 

2. Day of the dead, Dia de Muertos

Colourful, beautifully illustrated banners featuring flowers, musical instruments, decorated skulls and much more. This could work really nicely as a logo or as part of an opener for your video.  There are seven designs included in a variety of file types.

Day of the dead Dia de los muertos

3. Day of the Dead - Animation Pack

15 lovely animations themed around Día de Muertos. They’re easy to customise and you won’t need any plugins to use it and there’s a tutorial included in case you get stuck.

 

Even More Video Assets

If you’d like some more inspiration for your Day of the Dead video, try these. They’re all from Envato Elements so they’re included in a subscription.

Dia De Los Muertos Vj Pack 2 – Stock Video

A pack of seamless looping, decorated skulls.  The motion animation ranges from spinning in concentric circles, to rows of nodding and spinning skulls. There’s a lot of spinning.

 

Viva La Fiesta Font Trio

This font would look great with any Mexian-themed celebration video. There are two main types of font, each with three slightly varying styles.

Viva La Fiesta Font Trio
Viva La Fiesta Font Trio

Happy Mexico Latin Guitar – Music Track

An upbeat acoustic track featuring Latin-style guitar.

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