After Effects Compositing, Tracking, and Keying for Beginners

Combining live-action footage with digital graphics is the key to creating realistic and engaging visual effects. If you want to move beyond basic motion design and start blending elements seamlessly, mastering compositing is your next step. This text-based course guides you through the core principles of compositing, tracking, and keying in After Effects, showing you how to analyze footage, match lighting, and integrate graphics so perfectly that they look like they were captured on camera. What you'll learn: - Understand the fundamental principles of compositing, color matching, and light wrapping. - Master green screen keying techniques to cleanly isolate subjects from their backgrounds. - Apply motion tracking and camera tracking to attach graphic elements to moving footage. - Practice rotoscoping workflows to isolate complex organic shapes with precision. - Explore modern color management workflows, including ACES basics, for consistent visual output. - Combine multiple layers using blend modes, track mattes, and environmental matching. The course begins with foundational concepts of digital compositing and layering before moving into step-by-step written explanations of tracking, keying, and rotoscoping workflows. You will practice these concepts through structured written exercises and detailed pipeline walkthroughs. This course is designed for beginner motion designers, video editors, and visual effects enthusiasts who want to learn compositing from the ground up, with no prior advanced experience required. Start reading today and elevate your visual effects projects with professional compositing skills.