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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
AE Project Diary: 8) 3D City
This city flythrough was created entirely using After Effects, with the final composition involving over 18,000 layers. I made...
After Effects & EXRs- Compositing with big boy toys
The OpenEXR file format is the industry standard amongst high-end visual fx companies, but unfortunately After Effects has always...
AE Project Diary: 6) Xian part 2. Color Grading
This is part 2 of my After Effects diary on the Xian project, and in it I’ll be looking...
AE Project Diary: 5) Burning Embers
In this project diary we look at the process I went through to create an animation of burning embers...
