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...
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...
