The Smoke Getting Started contains exercises designed to give you practical experience using the software.

Although the Essentials Skills tutorials are intended for new users, existing Smoke artists will learn valuable editing and compositing techniques.

In these Smoke tutorials, you will learn how to:

• Build a multi-layer timeline and perform basic editing operations
• Create effects using Soft FX and timeline compositing techniques, including color correction, keying, text, tracking and masks.
• Create complex composites within the 3D environment of the Action module.

Additional learning resources are available to develop your skills; please refer to Additional Online Resources at the end of these tutorials.

To access a tutorial, navigate the menu on the left side of the page and click on an exercise in the numbered list.

The exercises are listed in the recommended order of completion.
Each exercise step includes a video and a written description that you can read by expending the text box.
Watch the video then refer to the written steps if needed.

To optimise the tutorial video player: choose Full Screen, then 1:1 size. Press ESC to escape the player.