Post Production
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...
Post Production
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...
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Restrain your undisciplined pixels with NaNny
Most pixels are pretty well behaved, but if you work in 32 bit mode then every so often you...
Post Production
Automatic grid layouts in After Effects
This article will explain how to automatically layout images in a grid, using expression sliders in After Effects. In...
