After Effects

Video Tutorials

How to Create an Animated Looping Logo Background in After Effects (No Experience Needed)

If you’ve ever recorded a screen share or a picture-in-picture segment and stared at that blank white or default black background, you know the feeling. It looks unfinished. It looks like you forgot something. For a while, I just lived with it, because I assumed animated backgrounds required serious motion graphics skills I didn’t have. Turns out, the fix is surprisingly simple, and it took one Peter McKinnon tutorial to completely change how I set up video segments that need a secondary display.

August 31, 2026

Video Tutorials

How to 3D Track Text Onto Any Surface in After Effects (And Why It's Faster Than You Think)

Every time I shoot travel content, I run into the same problem: where do I put the title? Slapping text in a corner feels lazy. Animating it over a solid color card feels dated. What I actually want is for the text to feel like it belongs in the scene, like it’s been painted on a wall or resting on a tabletop. That’s exactly what 3D tracking lets you do, and once you try it, you’ll wonder why you ever did it any other way.

July 31, 2026