Compositing in After Effects - Advanced Explosions Tutorial!

This tutorial walks viewers through advanced compositing techniques for creating realistic explosion visual effects in After Effects. It covers selecting the right VFX assets, setting up an ACES color workspace, performing rotoscoping and 3‑D tracking, isolating fire and smoke, creating illumination maps, adding reflections, light wraps, and glows, and finishing with focus blur and additional VFX touches. 0:00 - Intro/Picking the Right VFX; 0:57 - How to Change your Color Workspace in After Effects to Aces; 2:48 - Rotoscoping and 3D Tracking; 4:28 - Isolating Fire and Smoke; 7:12 - Creating Illumination Maps; 11:23 - Reflections, Light Wraps, & Glows; 13:22 - Focus Blur & Extra VFX.