The CMAC 72-Hour Film Race is a creative challenge open to everyone in the Fresno area. Participants will have to think on their feet to produce a short film in under 72 hours.

This article will show you the 3 most common useful ways to export a video with a transparent background.

AE File Collecting is the act of saving your project's File, along with all of the assets used in it, into a single folder that can be zipped up and distributed to someone else. Using After Effects dependencies to send a project off or clean it up is something I believe every AE user should know by default.

There is nothing worse than trying to work on a project and you hit play to watch your edit and nothing happens. Or worse it plays but only plays every other frame like you're watching a GIF. It's bound to happen to you at some point, so why not learn about it now, so when it hits you during a deadline you can get right back to work.

This is a breakdown of how I digitally aged up Michael Scott from The Office to produce a deepfake style edit, using EBSynth, FaceApp, and Adobe After Effects. This is a great trick to learn for any editor looking to learn more VFX Tricks for face replacements and deepfakes.

This is a list of the most used plugins for Adobe After Effects, that any AE user should have and be using. These are some of the most useful and time saving plugins I use on a daily basis as a full time VFX artist working in Commercial film and T.V.