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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Globe animations in After Effects: The next chapter
Just two weeks ago I looked at how globe animations had evolved between 1997 and 2010 – and now...
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AE Project Diary: 7) Globe animation
It might not be obvious, but this simple globe animation was influenced by a Hollywood blockbuster. I’m happy to...
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Automatic animation with expressions
Have you ever wished you could just press a button and have After Effects do all of the work...