Stock Footage 101 is going to be a video segment on our YouTube channel where we address some of the popular questions we're asked regularly by our users. In this first episode, I'll go over the best ways to remove a black, or white, background from stock footage.
In this tutorial Lendon will show you how to make it look like an entire town is going up in smoke, and it's pretty easy to learn! Follow along with me as he guides you through each step to make this possible in any scene.
In this tutorial, Follow along with Lendon as he guides you on how to best composite our Fireball elements in a shot using After Effects.
In this guest tutorial, Daniel Novarro creates a portal effect using our elements in After Effects. He covers various steps in the video, such as tracking the plate, inserting and creating the portal, rotoscoping, inserting some particles, and compositing them all together.
In this guest tutorial, Sander de Regt shows us how to composite our Muzzle Flashes in Blackmagic Fusion. We want to bring as much value as we can to the visual effects community by supplying tutorials in other programs besides After Effects.
In this tutorial, Lendon goes over how to composite our Ground Crack elements using After Effects. He also made great use of Mocha Pro from our friends at Boris FX for the tracking.
There are a million different techniques to use in the compositing world, all of which result in reaching the same end goal. Lendon hones in and keeps his eyes on the end goal, thus creating this awesome tutorial on how to best composite our Atmospheric Smoke & Fog in After Effects.
Motion tracking, 3D plains, fractal noise, camera shake! These are just some of things Lendon covers in our newest Bullet Hits Tutorial in After Effects. He provides so much knowledge and depth on how to properly handle compositing bullet hits into any scene.
Compositing footage into a scene is a true art, and the art of compositing muzzle flashes to look believable in a scene can be quite complex. Lendon does an thorough job in this tutorial to make compositing fun and easy to accomplish.
Compositing elements into a background plate can be easily done, but compositing them to look like the entire shot was captured in one, realtime frame is a whole different ball game. Lendon Bracewell dominates this tutorial by showing us how to achieve a seamless blend of our elements using any scene you choose to shoot.
