After Effects Classic Course: Set Matte versus Track Matte
One of the most useful compositing features in After Effects is the ability to use the properties of one...
After Effects Classic Course: Set Channels & Shift Channels
Earlier this year, we talked about the Photoshop skill known as “ChOps” – Channel Operations, where you manipulate individual...
After Effects Classic Course: Shadow/Highlight
In addition to creating motion graphics, we are both also into mixed media art, which often means trips through...
Creating Game of Thrones special effects at home with Red Giant’s VFX Suite
Game of Thrones delivered some of the best visual effects and tricks you could imagine, and now you get...
Classic Course: Lens Blur
Continuing our look at effects that take advantage of “blur maps”, the two movies below focus on Lens Blur....
Classic Course: Compound Blur
An important concept in After Effects is the idea of a “blur map”: a layer that tells you how...
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...
Classic Course: Compound Effects
The next couple of blur effects we want to show you look at the contents of a second layer...
Classic Course: Smart Blur
Smart Blur – along with Bilateral Blur, which we discussed back in January – was originally created to help blur...
Classic Course: Directional Blur
After Effects has long supported the ability to calculate motion blur of layers animated inside AE. However, that could...
