After Effects Tutorials

A Displacement Map effect changes the position (displaces) of pixels either horizontally or vertically or both, based upon the grey-scale or luma values in a separate reference layer.

Original (left), Displacement Map (background) applied (right)
Using a displacement map
- Create a new Composition and place a still image or your movie footage onto a layer. (I created […]

Usually when you’re keying blue or green screen you really only want one particular subject or object on screen and the rest of the background is redundant. So you usually create a rough matte or mask around that subject restricting the area to only where the action that you want is taking place. We call […]