Faking 3D in After Effects
3D is ever present in the motion graphics world. It’s also hard to learn and, occasionally, overkill. That’s where...
The top 7 After Effects scripts you should be using
Ever get that feeling while working in After Effects that you’re doing things the slow way? Enter the magic...
Making it rain in post—literally
Shooting in the rain is usually a bad idea (just ask the equipment insurer). Sometimes there’s nothing left to...
DUIK Bassel: The Premiere Animation Toolkit for Mograph Artists
If you’re an After Effects artist toying with the idea of creating character-driven animation, the free but powerful DUIK...
Tattoo Removal from Video Footage
Removing tattoos from body parts is tricky business: painful in the real world and painful in post-production. The former...
Reactor for Blackmagic Fusion
Reactor is a plugin manager for Blackmagic Fusion that adds powerful new tools to both the Fusion page in...
The literal invisible cut: mastering the Fluid Morph
Ethics aside, editors often have a legitimate need to hide a jump cut. Many editors are still unaware of...
Create the “Undone” look using EbSynth
The new Netflix series “Undone,” like “A Scanner Darkly” before it, creates a compelling visual style by rotoscoping live...
Automatic Rotoscoping…For Free
We’re still a few years away from where machine learning AI can produce rotoscoping that rivals what human artists...
Removing glare from glasses
There are all kinds of finishing effects that are within the grasp of the average editor. You just need...