Maxon and Red Giant unite to offer powerful content creation solutions

Written by Jose Antunes

December 17, 2019

The year ends with big news: Maxon and Red Giant, creators of unique tools for editors, have reached a...

After Effects Portal › 2019 April 2

Written by Rich Young

April 2, 2019

Recently in the world of After Effects, there’s news on UI training and tutorials, several particle plug-ins, 3D text,...

Classic Course: Natural Lighting Effects

Written by Chris and Trish Meyer

October 30, 2017

Since we’ve been on the subject of lighting recently, we thought we’d follow up the Classic Course on Adding...

REVIEW – Trapcode Suite 14 from Red Giant Software

Written by Kevin P. McAuliffe

August 25, 2017

I work in After Effects.  A lot, and I always have my “stable” of effects that I find myself...

Z-Depth from 3D After Effects layers

Written by Chris Zwar

September 20, 2014

I recently posted a video tutorial that demonstrates how to generate a z-depth map from Particular, and then use...

Z-Depth compositing with Particular – Part 2

Written by Chris Zwar

September 2, 2014

Trapcode’s Particular is probably the most popular 3rd party plugin for After Effects, and amongst its many powerful features...

Z-Depth compositing with Particular – Part 1

Written by Chris Zwar

September 2, 2014

Trapcode’s Particular is probably the most popular 3rd party plugin for After Effects, and amongst its many powerful features...