See After Effects Roundup February 2024 for a slew of 3D options added to the primary app a couple of weeks in the past.
After Effects product supervisor Victoria Nece notes that Version 24.4.0×13 of After Effects Beta introduces support for embedded animation in 3D models: “When you add GLB or glTF files with embedded animation to your timeline, you’ll see a new Animation Options menu where you can select an included animation to play back.” She additionally says that GLB and glTF fashions can embrace embedded animated cameras and lights, so with these options mixed it’s now potential to import many 3D scenes from different 3D purposes as a single file and convert their contents to native After Effects layers. Be positive to test your GPU compatibility with the Advanced 3D renderer.
Victoria additionally famous two good latest tutorials that will help you dive into AE 3D: From Flat to Fabulous: Turning 2D Images into 3D Models by Eran Stern and Creating animated models with Mixamo + Blender and importing in AE Beta from Learn Mograph.
SternFX additionally posted Illustrator to After Effects: 3D Model Animation Workflow, creating an animated poster for the film They Live.
Max Novak launched 3D scannning with a cellphone and Polycam in his Ultimate Guide to INSANE 3D Scan Effects ! (Blender & After Effects). Meanwhile RobikFX confirmed a 3D Scan Effect In After Effects with Element 3D from Video Copilot.
aescripts.com famous Ottoman Robot’s Las Vegas Sphere X Super Bowl X Eric Haze X Beyond The Streets – Behind the Scenes. He included a demo on utilizing Newton 4 for physics.
Charles Yeager had a Quick Tip: Remove Yellow from Footage for Cleaner Whites on PremiumBeat. He used the Adobe Lumetri plug-in inside After Effects.
I wasn’t positive this could be fascinating, nevertheless it was, regardless of the misspelling. MotionXP evaluated the downloadables of an AE coach in I downloaded all of Ben Marriots Project files…I’m SHOCKED by what I learned!
As talked about beforehand, CC Ball Action has been improved (with displacement, shading and coloring) with AE 24.2 replace. Usually we keep away from tutorials with out voiceover, however Tutorials View+ has some first rate examples in After Effects 24.2 New CC Ball Top View image To 3D.
flomotion shared 5 After Effects Compositing Tricks you did not know about!! Decide your self: they’re Keying, Looping, sensible results and units, lightwrap, rim gentle and level movement monitoring. He exhibits you methods to experience on animals, dragons, and monsters (however not dinosaurs) with the assistance of a greenscreen.
Motion UX shared Unlock Figma-Level Prototypes in Your After Effects UI Animations with This Secret, explaining that movement mocks in After Effects could be extra real looking with a easy trick of including in contact/faucet cursors to every interplay. Unfortunately the Figma-After Effects workflow is kludgy, and the AEUX plug-in is at the moment unavailable (besides on Github). It was originally created for Google SketchUp by the maker of Overlord. Additional choices floating round appear be Convertify and Toothpaste.
Olufemii requested How Would You Use This After Effects Feature? I don’t even bear in mind a standalone tutorial on CC Glue Gun!
Adobe Live hosts Motion Design Hotline, who right this moment options Motion Design Hotline: Painting Over Pain Points. Evan and Kyle futz with the frame-by-frame schools of Photoshop and After Effects, then present methods to scale back the drudgery with monitoring, rotoscoping, and vector methods. An earlier companion episode explored brush methods in Photoshop, Fresco, and After Effects: Motion Design Hotline: Paint-staking Reveals.
Motion Circles makes a pyramid by hand (okay, mouse) in Glow Up Your Animation in After Effects | 3D Spin & Time Displacement.
Adobe Video & Motion is internet hosting a sequence of shorts by Film Riot. One instance is How to Stabilize Footage in Premiere Pro and After Effects | Adobe Video x @filmriot.
And now, some AI hallucinations…
As normal, Matt Wolfe is worked up by developments in AI News: Get Ready, The World is About to Change.
Theoretically Media covers the fascinating however hyped OpenAI venture in Sora Release Date Deep Dive, in addition to Adobe Music and extra in Big AI News from Adobe, Stability, Ideogram & More! Tim additionally lined feature length AI films and LTX Studio by Lightricks and naturally extra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXsCN9FgbuA
Curious Refuge additionally at all times has extra video roundups, together with This Midjourney Update is WILD + Pika’s New AI Video Feature.
Adobe’s Jason Levine now posts video hangouts on Twitter. The most up-to-date one is Creative Kickoff | Monday AI Roundup/Review (chat, demo, chill). Adobe’s going to must tighten focus and readability and keep away from the chit-chat podcast model to assist customers not drift off to the thrilling developments elsewhere. As options broaden in AI, value and worth issues could play an even bigger position. Just in video enhancing, there’s a noticeable pattern in direction of CapCut and DaVinci Resolve. See for instance, Which Free Editor Should You Use? DaVinci vs. CapCut from Ben Claremont.
Kevin Monahan gave a Welcome to Premiere Pro 24.2.1! And Kylee Pena added Happy Valentine’s Day! Now in Beta: Label Color Presets! [also in AE beta]. Premiere Gal has the rundown in What is new in Premiere Pro? (v24.2) 6 New Features!
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Please word that these roundups are for fast overview and comparability — and After Effects Portal can solely skim the floor of what’s on the market.
There’s virtually at all times important info from the originating authors on the hyperlinks offered, and infrequently free presets, tasks, or inventory footage too.
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