Adobe After Effects is our pick for the best VFX software overall. Used across the creative industry, it's helped define what visual effects tools can do and how they do it. In our hands-on 5-star ...

If you’re looking to add atmospheric effects such as lightning to your scenes it can be much too easy to think in 3D and try to add splines with animated paths, set up emitting materials and so on.

Motion designers and video editors have been blending 2D and 3D elements in Adobe After Effects for years, through the use of ...