Color Management Part 5: Introducing CIE 1931
Anyone who’s ever looked up color management – especially using Google – will have seen the funny, multi-colored tongue...
Color Management Part 4: Maxwell’s Spinning Discs
Have you ever stopped to think about where RGB values came from? We all use digital color pickers every...
Color Management Part 3: It’s all in the brain
In order to manage colors in film and television production, we need a way to measure them. Unfortunately, measuring...
Quality: 14 tips to improve your After Effects projects
Quality is a tricky subject, covering everything from technical specifications, client expectations and budgetary restrictions, through to subjective opinions...
AE 2022: Multi-Frame Rendering has arrived!
Last week Adobe released After Effects 2022, which includes a number of new features that massively improve performance. I’m...
Binning it: Understanding layer rendering order in After Effects
After Effects revolves around a layer-based timeline, and this core functionality is largely responsible for defining what After Effects...
How to scale a 3D scene in After Effects
After Effects can import simple 3D scenes, either natively using the .ma file format, or with 3rd party plugins...
After Effects & Performance. Series Overview & Contents
After Effects is the industry standard application for motion graphics design, but like any major app, it can take...
After Effects & Performance. Part 18: Multi-Frame Rendering is here
The most fitting end possible for this series on “After Effects and Performance” is an interview with Sean Jenkin,...
After Effects & Performance. Part 17: Interview with Sean Jenkin from Adobe
There’s good news, and there’s bad news. Actually, it’s better than that. For all After Effects users out there,...
