There’s a new tutorial at VFX Haiku, Simple Compositing Techniques with Adobe After Effect, which takes a look at a few tips and tricks that author Kert Gartner used to make pixel art look like it’s part of a filmed plate.
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Quick Tip – RGB Pass Compositing In After Effects
In this tutorial we will learn about “RGB Pass Compositing” in After Effects. RGB pass compositing is something that gives freedom to the compositor to work on individual objects rendered from 3d applications. It is a well known and much used technique in production houses. This tutorial covers both the rendering technique from Maya and the compositing method within AE.
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Enhance Your Workflow: BS Compositing Bundle – Plug-ins Presentation
This is a presentation of a bundle of three Pixel Bender plug-ins: “bs-Smart Set Matte“, “bs-Mix Color” and “bs-Mix Layer“. The tutorial shows the parameters and some example where I show the technique of compositing where those plug-ins can be helpful.
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Polishing Treatment To Save For After Effects
In this tutorial we’ll go over the multitude of ways we can take our 3D renders from any program and spice them up in After Effects. If you’re like a lot of artists, you try to get your renders out of your 3D programs as quickly as possible. We’ll be looking at color correction, adding lights, film grain, and a bunch of other fun finishing touches.
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Compositing Blender’s Render Passes – AE Premium
In this tutorial I will be focusing mostly on flexibility. There are many ways to achieve better, more realistic results that this one, but the standard approach will not allow you to make many changes without going back to your 3D software and re-rendering. Proper set up of materials, render passes and compositing will allow you to quickly respond to client’s requests.
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VFX Tip: Compositing Fog or Mist
Compositing fog elements seems like a pretty straightforward thing to do in After Effects. Shoot or render your fog element against black, and then Add or Screen it on top of your footage, right? Wrong. This method is incorrect. Daniel Broadway goes over why.
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Create a “Light-tastic” Logo Reveal Animation – Day 2
In part 2 we learn how to use 32-bit compositing with custom particle shapes to create the “light-tastical” light streaking logo reveal animation.
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Create a “Light-tastic” Logo Reveal Animation – Day 1
In this 2 part tutorial we get our hands dirty with a little expression math to create some beautifully organic light streaks that are used to reveal the AETUTS logo. In part 1 Lloyd breaks down the science behind creating a simple expression that drives the light streak emitter and shows you how easy it is to create infinite variations with ease.
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Create a MoGraph Urban Jungle – Day 2
In day 2, Naim show us how to setup the vector graphics in Illustrator then track the man on the phone in Mocha AE. Finally, to wrap things up we jump back into After Effects to finalize the composite.
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Create a MoGraph Urban Jungle – Day 1
In this tutorial Naim Alwan ventures outside of After Effects for a little bit of 3D Matchmoving to create this stunning Urban Jungle effect where vector graphics are perfectly tracked to some city footage. In day 1 you will learn how to do a track using Boujou (although any matchmoving software will work for this) and then import and apply that information in After Effects successfully.
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