ZWARCHIVES – After Effects tutorials from the past 10 years

Written by Chris Zwar

February 2, 2026

Here's a collection of After Effects articles and tutorials that I've written over the past 10 years

Color Management Part 26: ACES and After Effects – the express tutorial

Written by Chris Zwar

February 2, 2025

ACES and OpenColorIO are the industry standard tools for color management in the VFX industry. It’s now been two...

Color Management Part 24: Corporate Branding Colors and video production

Written by Chris Zwar

November 25, 2024

Adobe After Effects is the industry standard app for motion graphics, and yet working with color management can strike...

Color Management Part 23: HDR tone mapping in practise

Written by Chris Zwar

November 9, 2024

When John Lennon said “Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans”, he might have been talking...

Color Management Part 22: Introducing Tone Mapping

Written by Chris Zwar

July 25, 2024

Tone Mapping is an integral part of modern video post production, but I didn’t even realise it was a...

Color Management Part 21: HDR formats, colorspaces and TLAs

Written by Chris Zwar

May 6, 2024

High Dynamic Range video is a new frontier for many After Effects users, but despite the clear advantages it...

Color Management Part 20: HDR Compositing just looks better!

Written by Chris Zwar

October 26, 2023

High Dynamic Range compositing, using 32 bit float mode in After Effects, just looks better.  It’s that simple, and...

Color Management Part 19: High Dynamic Range – introducing HDR

Written by Chris Zwar

September 20, 2023

High Dynamic Range video, or HDR, is the reason this entire series on color management exists.  So it’s pretty...

Color Management Part 18: Bit Depth

Written by Chris Zwar

July 24, 2023

After Effects has a project-wide bit depth setting, but individual plugins may or may not support all bit depths....

Color Management Part 17: Linear Compositing

Written by Chris Zwar

May 19, 2023

Linear compositing can be a tricky subject. Many years ago a few of my colleagues started discussing it. One...