How To Composite Dust Explosions | After Effects Tutorial

How To Composite Dust Explosions | After Effects Tutorial

July 29, 2021
Cody Vineyard

Learn how to composite Dust Explosions, Dust Waves, and more in this After Effects tutorial.

There's nothing quite like a well-composited explosion to elevate your production. In this tutorial, we're compositing our Dust Explosion stock footage elements into a live-action scene.
We will also dive into planar tracking with BorisFX's Mocha, an introduction to Roto Brush, and compositing other ActionVFX elements, as well!

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This After Effects explosion tutorial covers:

  1. Planar tracking in Mocha
  2. Basics of Roto Brush
  3. Compositing ActionVFX Dust stock footage (Dust Explosion, Dust Waves)
  4. Compositing Exploding Debris Vol. 2 into the explosion
  5. Compositing free Bullet Tracers

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