Mocha AE – A live tutorial for tracking & stabilisation
Just last week I posted a video tutorial introducing Mocha AE, the tracking app that has been bundled with...
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...
