Learn After Effects

Using the Roto Brush tool

The Roto Brush tool can be used to quickly remove an element in your footage from its background. It is an alternative to using the Pen tool for manual rotoscoping. It won't work in every situation but when it does it can speed up a very tedious process.

Expanding Shape Layers

In this tutorial you'll create a cool expanding shape animation using shape layers in After Effects. You can use an animation like this as an intro or combine it with the After Effects track matte functions to reveal or hide parts of a layer.

Create a Dynamic Background in After Effects

In this tutorial we will create a dynamic background with some lightning, overlays and reflections in Adobe After Effects