Green screen talent is often lit very flat, which makes it difficult to properly blend the talent in the background plate. One handy tool for dealing with this is the CC Light Sweep, a former Cycore plug-in that now comes standard in After Effects....

Create a creepy dark hooded figure with Digital Trove PRIME and masks....

Use Silhouette FX Roto to rotoscope areas of your video to isolate for tinting, as seen in Sin City....

Damon Ledet, Adobe certified After Effects Instructor, had a client that wanted to make a little gear in AE. He wanted the mask to rotate but not the colors in the gear. He set up a little tutorial project to do it....

This project will show you some advanced masking techniques, morphing your masks, copying masks from other programs, mask management, and it might make you crazy at the same time!...