Additive Keying in After Effects for hair and fine details
2019 doesn’t sound like it was that long ago, but a lot has happened in seven years. In fact,...
Fractal Noise: Advanced analysis of After Effects most versatile plugin
Fractal Noise is the most verstaile plugin that comes with After Effects – at least that’s what I wrote...
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...
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 3
Keylight is, in general, the best chromakey plugin that comes with After Effects. Although there are other 3rdparty plugins available...
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...
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...
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...
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...
