How to color grade your animations in After Effects Tutorial

Join our Patreon to access the project files: In this tutorial, we ll focus on color grading our animation. Think of this as some sort of training or exercise. We ll be doing 4 different lighting scenarios. And in each of those, I ll share with you my thought process, tips, and tricks on how I color grade my animations to match the background. 00:00 Intro 00:52 Choosing background images 04:39 Alpha mattes (the new way) 07:51 Option 1: Library 21:00 Option 2: Library with foreground 50:05 How nested compositions work 52:57 Option 3: Street lighting 01:14:52 Option 4: Back lighting 01:25:33 Conclusion Images used: Library with foreground Photo by Polina Zimmerman: Library Photo by Engin Akyurt: Street lighting Photo by Pixabay: Backlighting Photo by Josh Hild: