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...
Classic Course: Calculations
Continuing our theme of often-overlooked utility plug-ins in Adobe After Effects that can create interesting composites with a minimum...
Classic Course: CC Composite
This effect was long one of our secret weapons in Adobe After Effects to create looks like our “instant...
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...
Review: Imerge Pro, a RAW image compositing and green screen champion
Key, edit, crop and color your way to high-end composites with FXhome’s Imerge Pro, which features unlimited layers and...
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...
New “Fusion in Resolve” 20 minute quickstart
Hot off the moviola.com presses: a 20 minute guide to get you up and running in Resolve’s new Fusion...
Up and running with Apple Motion…in 20 minutes
For a lot of editors, After Effects is overkill but the rudimentary motion graphics tools in their NLE of...
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...
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...