In this School of Motion Workflow Show, we'll show off Ray Dynamic Texture, a killer plugin for After Effects that can save you hours of tedious texturing on your layers. Download all the assets from this video and find show notes here: schoolofmotion.com/ray-dynamic-texture/

Learn how to set up a Mocha Pro project when there are foreground occlusions in front of your tracking area.

Eran Stern shows us how to create this awesome particle animation using Stardust and a Motion Capture dancer. Also check out the Simon Bronson/Chris Vranos version of this that also uses Plexus.

There are few must have tools for after effects. For me its the tools that bring new functionality that I can't achieve with the built in first party plugins. Like Newton, or Element 3D. compCode is one of those tools!!!! compCode will take your composition and turn it into a script file, its like actions for photoshop, or macros, or super presets. All of the limitations that presets have compCode overcomes these.

Stereoscopic support is available in “SkyBox Studio V2“, for After Effects, and Charles Yeager guides us through the features. Charles shows us how to level the horizon on stereoscopic footage, as well as add text and a logo.  We also see how to apply “SkyBox 360 Post FX” which has monoscopic and stereoscopic support. We can easily add a “Blur”, “Glow”, “DeNoise” and “Sharpen” onto our stereoscopic footage.

In this french language tutorial, Grégory Villien of Motion Café, shows how to create a 3D galaxy nebula using Stardust

In this japanese language tutorial, nokir™ explains how he used Newton, Pastiche and LayerGenerators (aka Mobo Motion Bundle) to create the Industory2017PV tradeshow opener.

Learn how to composite a live video composition on to a CG render using the new "Stick Live Comp" features in Paint & Stick 2.0 which is currently out on a free public beta.

In this tutorial Mocha Product Manager Martin Brennand takes you through using Mocha VR for tracking and masking to isolate specific areas for shadows and highlight correction in VR footage with Lumetri color grading tools inside Adobe Premiere Pro.

Learn how to remove a camera tripod and shadow from 360 footage in After Effects. It is a basic technique that works for removing a stationary object in a scene using SkyBox Composer, a module in SkyBox Studio V2, that gives you a View-Based edit comp. It allows you to edit 360 footage in the same way that you would edit 2D footage. Charles introduces SkyBox Composer interface, and walks us through the process, using the Clone Stamp tool.

A transition between two songs sounds much better, if their beats are in sync. This is only possible, if both songs have the same tempo. In this tutorial, you learn how to use BeatEdit for Premiere Pro for a quick and reliable way to match the tempo of two songs and align their beats properly such that you can create smooth transitions between them.

Coloring with Ray Dynamic Color is quite simple. In this video we’ll take a look at how it works.

This Element 3D tutorial by Motion Café is in french but the result is so cool we wanted to share it as you should be able to follow along even if you don't understand french :)

Also, don't forget to check out E3D Mografter FX by Motion Café author Matthieu Fremeaux

Watch Tim Montijo from unifiedpictures.com show how the easy 360/VR workflow can be using SkyBox Composer, a new module in SkyBox Studio V2. SkyBox Composer gives you a view-based edit comp in After Effects. That’s right… you can edit in the actual 360 view. Using Composer, you can easily make place VFX where you want them to be to create cinematic VR experiences and 360 videos.

Charles Yeager shows us how to stabilize 360 footage in a couple of clicks using a feature in SkyBox Studio V2. Once you have stabilized your footage you can easily straighten the horizon as well with the SkyBox Master Camera Z rotation Controls.

Fun tutorial that shows you, interestingly enough, how to put lines on things using Plexus by Evan Abrams

This awesome tutorial uses Stardust and Plexus 3 to achieve a beautiful result using motion capture dancer data.

Charles Yeager  shows us how to take a regular After Effects project file, and turn it into a 360 video. He starts with an asteroid project file that he created 3 years ago using Element 3D, and converts it into 360 video using “SkyBox Composer” a new module in SkyBox Studio V2. It’s a quick and easy way to breathe new life into old scenes.

Chris Bobotis (Co-Founder mettle.com) shows how to take an existing Plexus project file in After Effects, and make it into a 360° Video. He uses the latest version of SkyBox Studio V2. The new "SkyBox Composer" module makes it very easy to work with 3D plugins in After Effects in a 360º environment.

The beats of a song are not always located exactly at peaks visible in the waveform, an interesting little fact that even experienced video editors are often not aware of. In this tutorial you'll learn the details and how BeatEdit for Premiere Pro can help.