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🆕 Introducing Contour Paint, a brand new effect in After Effects beta. community.adobe.com/announcement...
This pair of juvenile cooper's hawks have been hanging out at my neighbor's house making an absolute racket and I love them so much
Fun quick trick in After Effects 26.3: use the new Curl Noise effect + Colorama to create colorful swirling Environment light sources. Great for a stylized, non-photo-real look.
Also includes a shiny new Frame.io V4 panel for all your review and collaboration needs!
After Effects 26.3 is live! A lot of long-awaited stuff in this release: 🎥 Depth of Field in Advanced 3D 🌟 Copy & paste Illustrator and SVG content 🤿 Faster, more accurate Mask Tracker 📋 Copy frame to clipboard 🌀 Brand-new Curl Noise effect 🔤 Variable font filtering helpx.adobe.com/after-effect...
🎉🆕🎉 At long last, it’s here: copy and paste vectors from Illustrator as native shape layers in After Effects beta. Works with any app that supports SVG clipboard data, too! community.adobe.com/announcement...
This is a genuine experience I am having today attempting to click a link in an email. I want to scream.
🆕 Depth of Field comes to Advanced 3D in After Effects beta! It's fast, easy to control and even works through transparency. community.adobe.com/announcement...
🆕 Two new features in After Effects beta today! Quick Apply: community.adobe.com/announcement... Displacement of Substance 3D Materials on Parametric Meshes: community.adobe.com/announcement...
What happens if you mix the speed of Premiere's Object Mask with the precision control of AE's Roto Brush? You get Object Matte, new in After Effects beta. community.adobe.com/announcement...
With the big beta feature release a couple weeks ago there were a bunch of "But what about variable fonts?" comments that I was dying to respond to. Here they are! And they're endless fun to play with. This is just one single text layer:
🆕 Something big is coming to After Effects beta today: Variable Font Animation! community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...
Today in "extremely silly things you can make in After Effects" thanks to the new beta: bagel fountain
Fun trick with After Effects beta: as you can now transform textures on 3D models, you can do cool stuff like UV offset animation for facial expressions and lip sync. If you want to give it a try, this character is free from Mixamo and has eyes, brows and mouth separately controllable.
Goofing around with mixing parametric meshes and expressions in After Effects beta. This is fun.
🆕 Pleased to share that 💡Tip of the Day💡 is back and better than ever in After Effects beta! Open an empty comp window to see a helpful tip submitted by an AE community member (maybe even yourself?). Here are a few examples; there are more than 100 in all. community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...
Some fun morning noodling around in After Effects with Card Dance and Radio Waves.
A recent addition to After Effects beta: clean up your 3D giz-mess by adjusting all your 3D layers with a single gizmo. Makes 3D interaction a lot faster, too! More info: community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...
Also 🆕 in After Effects beta this week: spot and parallel light shadows in Advanced 3D are now faster and higher quality.
🆕 Super excited about a feature that just went live in After Effects beta: Quick Offset. Stagger and retime layers and keyframes just by dragging! community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...
Who's had a chance to play with the new 3D shadows in After Effects beta? What do you think so far?
"Upload a video Bluesky doesn't turn to total mush" challenge failed again. Why do I keep posting particle effects? 🤦♀️ Anyway here's a still so you can see what it actually looks like.
If you're looking to make your own version of the Eurovision heart-shaped halftone effect in After Effects, Card Dance or Particle Playground are the way to go. The former renders faster, the latter is quicker to set up. Both can give you some really fun results! (This clip is Card Dance.)
The new system supports shadows for up to eight lights plus an Environment light.
🆕 in After Effects beta: Spot and Parallel light shadows in Advanced 3D! They're fast to render and fun to play with, especially mixed with shadow color. You can do everything from super-stylized sharp shadows to realistic multi-light scenes. More details: community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...
One of my favorite features of AE 3D is the "Shadow Color" option. Choosing a dark color from the scene you're compositing into can make a huge difference in how realistic your shadows look. Real-world shadows are rarely true black! Here's a photo I took last night that's an extreme example:
🆕 Great little addition to After Effects Beta today: you can finally reveal your project file location in your file system from the Project panel! community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...
Nice easy 3D lighting effect in AE: make an RGB spot light rig! Position 100% red, green and blue lights side by side so they mostly-but-not-fully overlap to form a white spot light. Creates a chromatic aberration-like feel that really adds character vs a plain white spot.