After Effects Guru Meditation: Adding effects for an overall look

Written by Chris Zwar

March 16, 2026

When I first started working in the industry, the concept of color grading video was relatively new. I loved...

After Effects: How to animate flashing neon light patterns

Written by Chris Zwar

February 22, 2026

We all have to-do lists, and sometimes working through them takes longer than we expect.  Roughly 15 years ago,...

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 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 3: It’s all in the brain

Written by Chris Zwar

March 1, 2022

In order to manage colors in film and television production, we need a way to measure them.  Unfortunately, measuring...

Color Management Part 2: Newton’s Prisms

Written by Chris Zwar

February 20, 2022

Color management may not be fun, but we once we break the topic down into small parts it becomes...

Fractal Noise: Advanced analysis of After Effects most versatile plugin

Written by Chris Zwar

August 12, 2021

Fractal Noise is the most verstaile plugin that comes with After Effects – at least that’s what I wrote...

After Effects: Making a composition render 70 x faster

Written by Chris Zwar

July 2, 2021

Rendering times in After Effects can vary a lot.  If you’ve been using After Effects for a while, you’ve...

After Effects & Performance. Series Overview & Contents

Written by Chris Zwar

June 21, 2021

After Effects is the industry standard application for motion graphics design, but like any major app, it can take...

After Effects & Performance. Part 18: Multi-Frame Rendering is here

Written by Chris Zwar

June 9, 2021

The most fitting end possible for this series on “After Effects and Performance” is an interview with Sean Jenkin,...