Color Management Part 5: Introducing CIE 1931
Anyone who’s ever looked up color management – especially using Google – will have seen the funny, multi-colored tongue...
Color Management Part 4: Maxwell’s Spinning Discs
Have you ever stopped to think about where RGB values came from? We all use digital color pickers every...
Color Management Part 3: It’s all in the brain
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
Color management may not be fun, but we once we break the topic down into small parts it becomes...
Color Management Part 1: The Honeymoon is over.
Welcome to the first part of my new series on color management. Although it’s exciting to launch a new...
AE 2022: Multi-Frame Rendering has arrived!
Last week Adobe released After Effects 2022, which includes a number of new features that massively improve performance. I’m...
Binning it: Understanding layer rendering order in After Effects
After Effects revolves around a layer-based timeline, and this core functionality is largely responsible for defining what After Effects...
Using EXRs and DWA in After Effects
Codecs aren’t the most exciting thing to write about, but a recent update to After Effects included a tiny...
How to scale a 3D scene in After Effects
After Effects can import simple 3D scenes, either natively using the .ma file format, or with 3rd party plugins...
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...