Creative Compositing in Adobe After Effects

Welcome to the world of VFX and compositing! In this workshop you’ll explore how to combine video footage, incorporate animation, and alter videos in unexpected ways. Using Adobe After Effects, you’ll learn how to bring different pieces of footage together into one scene, creating your own surrealist landscapes and imaginative visual worlds made up of different videos.

We’ll go over the basics of compositing and explore techniques such as masking, rotoscoping, motion tracking, layering, and integrating footage. You’ll experiment with these tools and learn a few different ways to combine videos and create unexpected compositions of your own.

Basic knowledge of Adobe After Effects is required. You’ll also need a reasonably powerful computer that can handle video editing and compositing, with an Adobe license installed.

About your instructor

Maria Munar is a Canadian-Colombian visual and media artist based in Calgary. She graduated from the Media Arts program at Alberta University of the Arts in 2017 and has been working professionally in the creative industry ever since.

For the past eight years, she has worked at Critical Mass as a Motion and Post-Production Director, working with some of the world's biggest brands such as Apple, Mercedes Benz, Lipton, BMW, and many more. Her experience spans video editing, colour grading, motion graphics, VFX, and compositing, with a focus on Adobe After Effects and DaVinci Resolve.

Alongside her work in the creative industry, Maria’s visual art practice combines photography, collage, and sculpture. She is represented by Gibson Fine Art, she has exhibited with organizations including Quickdraw Animation Society, Werklund Centre, and SpanicArts, with works held in private and public collections.