Beautiful Lighting & Shading in After Effects with Layer Styles

An easy After Effects tutorial on how to use layer styles to achieve a realistic 3D lighting, shading, gradients and reflection effect. This tutorial is suitable for beginners. Join the waitlist for my new advanced animation course: https://www.benmarriott.com/courses Join my discord server! https://discord.gg/jnS6ZrMYX2 Download the free project file: https://gum.co/RiUHB Download my other free project files: https://gumroad.com/benmarriott​​ Other artists mentioned in this video: Steve Elliget: https://www.instagram.com/epicsteve/ Johan Eriksson: https://www.instagram.com/erikssongraphics/ Hieu Vu: https://www.instagram.com/hieuvudesign/ I'm uploading new motion design & animation tutorials every Thursday! (Sometimes Monday too) ►Follow my ongoing adventures on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ben_marriott_ ►Please tag me on Instagram @ben_marriott_ if you've used any of the techniques from this video so I can see what awesome things you create ►Find me elsewhere! Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/benmarriott​​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benmarriottillustration ► I use Yellow Images for stock assets, fonts, and mockups https://yellowimages.com/?yi=167143​​ (Affiliate link) ►Music: Massive thanks to madmomentsgo for providing that amazing music for my intro! check out his other brilliant work here: https://bit.ly/2ER0bJF