Video › Visual Effects

Learn how to create professional-looking type plus sophisticated type animations, including timing to music.

Demonstrates the most common techniques for adding selective transparency to layers in After Effects.

A tour of editing and enhancement techniques for After Effects layers.

Learn how to create sophisticated animations in After Effects with the minimum amount of effort.

An introduction to creating a first animation in Adobe After Effects.

A whirlwind tour of Adobe After Effects for new users and those who may need a refresher.

Introduces MoGraph, a toolset that allows you to model and animate objects without keyframes, and shows how to use MoGraph to quickly get your characters up and running.

Introduces particles (used to simulate effects like snow, sparks, fog, or fire) and dynamics (which allow you to define how objects interact with their environment).

Explores Trapcode Particular, an industry standard third-party After Effects plugin for generating particle effects.

Covers the basics of rendering images and animation and compositing those elements with effects in a single movie with CINEMA 4D.

Introduces the CINEMA environment and illustrates the importance of the object hierarchy.

Covers the basics of operating the mocha software, as well as advanced tracking and rotoscoping techniques.

Provides both a solid foundation of the Nuke 5 core functions of keying, motion tracking, and color correcting, and an overview of 3D compositing.