Learn how to use Lockdown to easily track stock footage onto warping surfaces in After Effects

Rocketstock put together a list of plugins that are great for creating cyberpunk animations including AE Pixel Sorter, Modulation, Deep Glow, Data Glitch, Lockdown, Displacer Pro, Datamosh and more. We would add Stardust and Plexus to the list ourselves!

Ignace Aleya shows how to use Lockdown in After Effects to create the Terminator Face.

Black Mixture released their top 10 After Effects plugins for 2020 and we are proud to have 7 out of 10 on their list:  Lockdown, AutoFill, Magnum, Splash, Element 3D, Animation Composer, Mocha Pro

Lockdown pioneered the mesh tracker in After Effects but now that other mesh trackers are being announced we made a video that discusses the comparisons. Includes bonus tutorial on how to create the face depth map used in the comparison.

The latest version of Lockdown adds Alembic support to be able to use the track data from Lockdown in a 3D app like Cinema 4D to pull off crazy tracks like this one of trees growing on the rhino's skin!

Black Mixture reviews some awesome After Effects techniques that include using Lockdown, Element 3D, Mocha Pro and Joysticks 'n Sliders.

In this epic tutorial Lockdown creator Chris Vranos shows you how to track a liquid surface that might otherwise be considered impossible but thanks to the black voodoo magic of Lockdown it's a pretty easy process. Well, until Chris decides to be a perfectionist of course!

Nice Lockdown tracking shots by Terra Incognita Docs

Check out this interview with Lockdown and Composite Brush creator Chris Vranos on the Mograph Podcast

After Effects Guru/Legend Mark Christiansen reviews Lockdown with a simple tutorial on how to use it in the least amount of steps possible. He also reminds you that Lockdown is free during the quarantine.

James from Plugin Everything interviews Chris Vranos, developer of Lockdown and Composite Brush. Watch all 3 parts now!

Check out the awesome lockdown mask that Kevin Lustgarten created using Lockdown in After Effects!

Learn how to use Lockdown in After Effects to easily create the Animalism effect by Souren Manukyan

Learn how to create an animated cyborg face tattoo using Lockdown by Emmett Short. 

Learn how to create the T-shirt tracking effect from the Justice D.A.N.C.E. video using Lockdown in After Effects. 

Learn how to use Lockdown to do a style-transfer onto live footage to instantly create an animated character by Maik Antero

Awesome spot created using Lockdown in After Effects by Souren Manukyan

This Spanish language tutorial by Aura Prods claims that Lockdown is the best plugin for After Effects and it does a great overview of how it works and how easy it is to use it. You can use the caption -> auto-translate feature if you want to follow along in a different language.

Learn how to use Lockdown in After Effects to do beauty cleanup quickly and easily