Typography is one of the qualities upon which the authors of Layer Magazine base most of the design work. The type animation engine in After Effects offers a gamut of ways to express typographic flair. It provides the ability to control the 3D motion and position of text characters.

This tutorial demonstrates the possiblities:

http://shar.es/1Wctc

Digieffects,® a developer of popular visual effects software plugins, today announced that Camera Mapper is available for purchase. Camera Mapper, a plugin for Adobe After Effects, allows you to simulate a 3D scene from 2D footage.

It allows you to isolate one or several objects in your footage, project these objects on a separate layer and pull that layer out of the background, creating the visual illusion of the object floating in front of the original footage.


http://digieffects.com/product/camera_mapper

Some inspiration. :)

Once you set static elements into motion and add cool music, you can accomplish visually stunning animations and special effects that can enhance presentations/audiovisuals.

http://bit.ly/Jtxnn