Each tutorial includes overviews and exercises:
• Watch the overviews to learn more about the Smoke user interface and best-practices for working with the software. No footage is required for the overviews.
• Follow the exercises to get practical experience using the software. Footage for the exercises is provided with the tutorial installation script in the Editing section.

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

After completing the Smoke Essentials Skills tutorials, you will be able to work on a project from start to finish.

In these 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 see More Resources.

To access a tutorial, click the name that appears in the numbered list on the left side of the page.

Note that you will first need to run the tutorial installation script located under the Editing section to install the media used with the exercises.