Smoke Learning Channel

This video shows you how to create custom nodes in ConnectFX.

Great for templating graphics, creating custom tools and presets.

This video shows you how to set up your wireframe icons in Action so that they do not get in the way of your compositing.

In this video you learn how to pixelate faces and logos using ConnectFX.

With ConnectFX, you have greater creative flexility on your look. Hide faces and logos by blurring, pixelating or however you wish!

In this video you learn how to blur faces and logos using the Action 3D Compositor.

Great for obscuring things you don't want people to see or identify. An every task!

In this video you learn how to balance the black and white levels of an image. With this technique you can correct an unbalanced source or balance a foreground element to a background plate whilst compositing.

Learn about how the mid-tones trackball works and why it is different from the other grading trackballs in the Colour Warper.

This video shows you how to do credit rolls in Autodesk Smoke. Correctly format the text in the roll using stylising and tabulation.

This video shows you how to place your text on an editable path. Learn about path animation as well as turning your masks into paths for your text.

This video shows you the various ways to create or import text. We look at text attributes and alignments as well as a few tips in the text tool.

In the final part 9, we look at three techniques to deal with challenging tracks.

Tracking references can go behind other objects or go off-screen so these workflows will help you deal with these challenges.