In this tutorial by Levi Borland, learn how to turn your actors invisible using displacement maps, rotoscoping, and luma mattes.

An informative presentation by Nick Campbell for MGFest 09 about how to get a job as a motion designer. The presentation is geared towards students trying to get into the industry, but the info is relevant to ALL creatives and creators. Thanks Nick

In this tutorial I explain how to use my After Effects script KeyTweak to quickly modify any keyframed property. Just modify a few keyframes by hand and KeyTweak will modify the keyframes in-between accordingly. - modify drifting tracks - correct rotoscoping errors - make non-uniform mask expansions ----by Mathias Möhl

In this tutorial Mathias shows that corner pin tracking can do much more than just replacing some pictures on a wall. We are going to compose a wound on a moving head and use the Mocha tracker in combination with his script MochaImport. Trust me, this is so much easier then creating a real head wound!

Basic Mattepainting by GopiKrishna, Its a Mattepainting to make TajMahal sit on a rocky mountain. In this video Gopi talks about creating the sketch and layout to start the mattepaint.

Watch Dav Rauch from The Orphanage talk us through their fantastic Nuke work on the HUD sequence from Iron Man. Part 1 of 2. Iron Man © 2008 MVLFFLLC. TM & © 2009 Marvel. Images courtesy of The Orphanage.

Alex Popescu - 2009 Demo reel on mattepainting and illustrations, its a good reference for budding matte painters :) his updated site : http://alexpopescu.net/index.php

The Set Background Color Node is very useful while keying. This is a demo of how it works.

Basic Mattepainting by GopiKrishna, Its a Mattepainting to make TajMahal sit on a rocky mountain. In this video Gopi talks about creating the sketch and layout to start the mattepaint.

An alternative video for Coldplay\'s Strawberry Swing, directed by Ross Neil and Matt Clark, with thanks to HSI London.

This video was created by eyeon Software for VFXPedia.com

In this tutor, Somu talks about the basics of rotoscopy and takes an overview of silhouette on basic rotoscopy and explains all that a fresher needs in detail

Budweiser rallies community spirit with “Bridge”, a television commercial premiered during the second quarter of the 2010 Super Bowl. A town’s access to the outside world has just been cut off with the destruction of the bridge. No one really cares it until it’s known that there’s a Budweiser truck waiting to make a delivery. Adults of legal drinking age rush through the town to form a human...

Take a look behind the scenes of a commercial that required extensive crowd replication in 14 shots - all completed in one week. Crowd plates were keyed & prepared, foreground elements painstakingly rotoscoped, and the empty stadium was populated by a roaring audience, often consisting of over 500 layers! Created by 3DTree, an Animation & Visual Effects - check out www.3dtree.co.za

Tutorial about typography in 5 steps: 1. Choose the right font 2. Basic distribution and align 3. Space between letters 4. Do not use 5. Make it readable

Skydome creates a 3D environment for your After Effects compositions at the touch of a button. The environment then responds to your camera’s position, orientation, rotation and lens properties. With your composition selected, simply run the script. A background composition is created with a default pattern inside. Simply drop an HDRI image or any other material into this composition and it...