Step by Step Visual Effects Reveals Visual effects breakdowns are always compelling viewing for me, as they are like watching the post production process in reverse. Peeling back the wallpaper and...
Category - Compositing
Editing Tips from the Editor of The Amazing Spiderman
Editing Tips from Alan Edward Bell Alan Edward Bell editor of The Amazing Spiderman and 500 Days of Summer has added two more tutorials to his blog one (above) on how to do basic rotoscoping in order...
Grading & Finishing Commercials
Creative DI in Commercials Studio Daily and Assimilate hosted this hour long webinar with Emery Wells, CEO & Founder of Katabatic, who walks through his colour grading, compositing and finishing...
How to create the perfect key
Learning how to key green-screen correctly If your approach to keying green screen shots is to slap on a plugin and hope for the best then Splice Vine’s August series on keying and matting by...
New Features in Assimilate Scratch v7
Assimilate Scratch 7 New Features Tutorials Assimilate Scratch is a compositing, colour grading and finishing tool which also doubles as a dailies creation system. Here are some short 2 minute...
Expand your skill set – Free Tutorials
Video2Brain – Free Tutorial Archive If you’re looking to expand your skill set and be able to say ‘yes’ when you get the classic client question: “Can you use...
2 & 1/2 Hours of free Smoke 2013 Training
Free Smoke 2013 Tutorials If you’re looking for a high end ‘finishing’ program editorial mashup then Smoke 2013 may be just what you need. The Smoke Training youtube channel now has...
Editing Tips from Alan Edward Bell
Editing Craft – Alan Edward Bell Alan Edward Bell editor of The Amazing Spiderman and 500 Days of Summer has started a blog where he shares some of his insights and tips into what it takes to...
Editing with VFX in mind…
Editing in your own VFX If you’ve not watched Alan Edward Bell’s 30 minute webinar on the visual effects that he temped into his offline cuts of The Amazing Spiderman, then sit down and...
Adobe Speedgrade CS6 Video Tutorials
Learning Adobe Speedgrade CS6 SpliceNpost (via Jim Wicks) has a series of 8 good (and free) video tutorials on how to get started with Speedgrade CS6. Aimed at beginners, but useful for experienced...
Compositing Breakdown – Understanding the hidden magic
Layer by Layer Compositing Breakdown In this great tutorial from Nick Campbell of GreyScaleGorilla, he walks through the many layers of an after effects project, demonstrating how different tricks...
Smoke 2013 Tutorials and Tips
Learning how to use Autodesk Smoke 2013 Autodesk Smoke 2013 is now available (download it here) so to learn how to get started with it, check out this extensive round up of tutorials, tips and...
Avengers Assemble Visual Effects
Avengers Assemble Visual Effects Design Cargo Collective has some great images from the design team that created the displays and user interfaces in The Avengers Assemble. You can view them all here...
Free lens flares
Gorilla Grain has morphed its way into flashbangfx.com and has a brand new range of 24 different camera lens flares to add to your footage. There are some free 720p Pro Res ‘Insta-flares’...
Smoke 2013 – Demos & Tutorials
There are plenty of Smoke 2013 product demonstrations and video tutorials available showcasing all the new editorial features and post workflows possible in the new version of Autodesk Smoke. Here...