The editor gives you a flat-looking shot, and wants you to comp it and return it, color as is. You have no camera information, no LUT. Comping on flat footage is hard, you can barely see, and the effects look a bit off. What's the easiest way around all of these problems?

Saturday Night Live (SNL) aired two spots last Saturday, one created using Lockdown to hilariously mimic misbehaving A.I. and Composite Brush to do blue screen keying for the Fully Naked in NY spot.

Learn Mograph is very excited to show how Mask Prompter can replace Rotobrush for all your matting needs in After Effects.

Ben Marriott recreates The Last Of Us titles using AutoFill and Quick Chromatic Aberration 3 in After Effects

Learn how to use the powerful Projection 3D extension in After Effects to create a pseudo-3D timelapse shot using only still images.

Create a sci-fi portal effect from a single shape layer using Pattoon's powerful displacement engine.

Learn how to add movement to still images, also known as cinemagraphs or plotagraphs using loopFlow in After Effects by Tutorials View+

This french language (with English captions) tutorial by ATOM shows how to create a fake wound and scar using Lockdown in After Effects.

Amazing game trailer created using Helium by Eric Jordan

Visual FX Pro has a nifty tutorial on how to make a realistic-looking forest fire using Deep Glow and is also giving 10 copies of deep glow and copies of their entire stock footage library.

Dreadlabs shows how you can use our Signal plugin to easily create a 90 VHS visual style

Corridor Digital deep dives into using Lockdown to create their super cool Voldemort parody!

Charles Yeager for Premiumbeat.com shows how to create depth mattes in After Effects using Depth Scanner. He also shows some creative uses with other plugins like AE Pixel Sorter.

Learn how to use Depth Scanner to create a depth matte for a 2D photo so you can easily add 3D motion to it and bring it alive.

Amazing short created with Deep Glow, Fast Bokeh Pro and Element 3D by Vetrinfranti | Gianluigi Carella

Tutorials View+ does a great overview of the many creative uses of Depth Scanner in After Effects

Pretty amazing A.I. based de-aging of Luke Skywalker by Thiago Porto

After Effects + GEOlayers 3 + FreeForm Pro + Mettle FLUX

GEOlayers 3 lets you render custom maps from online data sources directly in After Effects. Mettle FreeForm Pro can turn them into 3D landscapes. Mettle FLUX is the perfect complement to further customise your look. Tutorial hosted by the one and only Charles Yeager!

Learn a few compositing tricks that you can use in the stabilized pre-comp generated by Lockdown to do professional-level beauty cleanup in After Effects.

Learn how to work with georeferenced imagery like the NASA Visible Earth collection as well as local tile directories in GEOlayers 3 for After Effects