After Effects Tips and Techniques: Compositing and Effects
2h 13mIntermediate2014-11-14
Authors
Eran Stern
Teacher and Motion Designer, 20+ years of post-production experience
Course details
Get the most out of After Effects, with Eran Stern's After Effects Tips and Techniques. The aim of the series is to help you increase productivity by learning new shortcuts, hidden gems, and overlooked effects. In this part you'll learn how to overcome problems when compositing layers and matching shots, and explore a few "recipes" for popular effects. Discover how to key smoke and water, preserve transparency, match color, and create fun and popular effects such as film flash and "fake" camera tracking.
Learning objectives
Compositing tricks
Handling tricky keys
Matching shutter phase
Removing banding
Matching color
Adding an illusion of depth
Watermarking shots
Learning objectives
Compositing tricks
Handling tricky keys
Matching shutter phase
Removing banding
Matching color
Adding an illusion of depth
Watermarking shots
Skills covered
Motion GraphicsAfter EffectsRenderingMotion Graphics and VFXVisualization and Real-TimeAdobeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and IllustrationDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
Compositing Tricks
- Keying smoke and water
- Handling tricky key shots
- Light warp
- Matching shutter phase
- Preserving transparency
- Adjustment lights
- Removing banding
Fix It in Post
- Day for night
- The unknown looks gallery
- Classic color match
- Selective color match
- Changing color match
- Contact shadows
Popular Effects Made Easy
- Depth illusion
- Film-flash effect
- Fake camera track
- Improving realism with displacement
- Watermark effect
Conclusion
- What's next