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After Effects & Performance. Part 2: What After Effects actually does
When discussing the history of After Effects and performance, there’s one single, critical, all encompassing factor that we have...
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After Effects & Performance. Part1: In search of perfection
Introducing the Introduction When it comes to After Effects, “performance” is a complicated topic. The notion of performance affects...
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Thoughts on AE: What’s after After Effects?
Over the past couple of years, I’ve seen an increasing number of After Effects users talk about switching to...
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AE Project Diary: 9) Digital van replacement
In July last year I began work on a number of vfx shots for a short film called “At...
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Advanced keying with After Effects: Part 5
In the fifth and final part of this series on keying, I’ll demonstrate a range of compositing techniques to...
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REVIEW: Red Giant VFX Suite
Red Giant Software has been developing After Effects plugins for over 15 years, and today they’ve launched their newest...
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Advanced keying with After Effects: Part 4
The point of using a chromakey plugin is to generate a matte / alpha channel based on the colour...
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Advanced keying with After Effects: Part 3
Keylight is, in general, the best chromakey plugin that comes with After Effects. Although there are other 3rdparty plugins available...
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Advanced keying with After Effects: Part 2
In Part 1 I did a quick overview of the most commonly used keying plugins for After Effects. Regardless...
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Advanced keying with After Effects: Part 1
Nothing says visual fx like a greenscreen. The image of a film set covered with blue or green fabric...
