After Effects Roundup June 2024 by Rich Young

The present model of Adobe After Effects is May 2024 release (version 24.4). Beta options are listed in Adobe Help.

Apparently OpenPBR Surface is now 1.0, and a big step toward material standardization and interoperability in the 3D ecosystem.

In Beta Beat | A Sneak Peek at What’s Next in Premiere Pro and After Effects – May News, Adobe’s Karl Soule and Victoria Nece shared a take a look at the present options, fixes, and workflows underneath growth in Premiere Pro (Beta) and After Effects (Beta). In this video you additionally hear how suggestions from the neighborhood is the way forward for the apps you utilize day-after-day.

Eran Stern posted Quick Physics Simulations in After Effects on utilizing Particle Playground to simulate 2D physics in After Effects. He additionally shared How to Replace 3D Materials in After Effects, and the 45-minute crash course, Easy Motion Graphics for Beginners in After Effects.

Adobe Live hosted Motion Design Hotline: Particle Party. In this episode, Evan and Kyle make it rain and smoke with the built-in particle programs in After Effects. Evan begins with the previous confetti cannon loaded with tumbling cash, shiny metallic flakes, and a deck of taking part in playing cards. And so on and so forth as endurance permits.

Jake In Motion has some new movies, together with AE Genius Animation Presets and Essential Properties and Text Animators. Awhile again Jakes posted The LAST graph editor tutorial you’ll ever need, and now has one other take, AE Genius Buttery Smooth Curves.

Motion By Scott has 20 After Effects Secrets Everyone Should Know.

MotionXP shared The only 4 After Effects Expressions you need to know, not absolutes however as baselines.

Boone Loves Video (and maps) shared How to Find (and Animate) Any Country Flag | After Effects Tutorial 2024.

Ben Marriott has concepts on Perfect Shape Morphs in After Effects. Ben reveals each step used to create tremendous clean form morph transitions utilizing form layers, exploring completely different methods and instruments you need to use to interrupt down the method into smaller steps, mirror shapes, discover interesting shapes to make use of between the morphs, mother or father parts collectively for extra management and plan forward to create a cohesive and impactful transition.

Evan Abrams on Adobe Live shared starter information in his tutorial, Morph Between Objects | Video Animation Challenge.

In Line Art Animation in After Effects | No Plugins, AnF Graphics creates Shapes from vector layer and animates a Trim Path layer management.

Manuel does Motion confirmed how he animated an Illustration in After Effects in Animating Artworks from Artists I like: Sebastian Schwamm.

Quick actions within the Creative Cloud app can save time and supply fundamental modifying instruments for every day inventive work. Examples of fast actions embody merging and trimming movies, eradicating backgrounds, resizing photographs and movies, changing movies to gifs, and modifying PDFs. Watch flomotion clarify in Quick Actions: Remove Background in ONE SECOND and much more!!

Maxon Studio is a brand new After Effects template engine and intuitive interface out there to Red Giant and Maxon One subscribers. Studio’s assortment of Capsules usually are not prefab templates, which will be exhausting to customise. Powered by Red Giant instruments, Studio Capsules will be browsed, chosen, and fine-tuned with our user-friendly modifying interface so you possibly can create standout movies with the press of a button. Maxon One contains Maxon Capsules, Maxon Cinema 4D, Maxon Forger, Maxon Red Giant, Maxon Redshift, Maxon Universe and Maxon ZBrush. You should buy bundles with different instruments included as properly, however test your math.

Chad Perkins explains this fascinating growth in Getting Started with Maxon Studio.

Premiere Gal considers Better Color Grading with these Pro Tips! It contains point out of the orange and teal look. If you haven’t, see the traditional 15-year previous tutorial by Stu Maschwitz, Red Giant TV Episode 22: Creating a Summer Blockbuster Film Look. You would possibly think about one other previous submit by Stu, Hue are you?

3D Object and HDRI Lighting in After Effects – How good is it? Premiere Gal seems to be at how a lot you possibly can accomplish with 3D objects and fashions in After Effects with their new superior 3d workspace. She exams the import of .glb objects and using HDR Images for environmental lights to create a cool UFO scene.

CapCut has some respectable ‘Pro’ filters that use AI for audio clear up. Controls are restricted, however I redid a repair on 10 1990-era cassette transfers and it saved hours on every tape. I solely wished 1 month, so it price $10 for professional entry. It labored higher than final yr’s Adobe audio options (I didn’t strive the updates).

If you’re not offered, right here’s some enjoyable, Pro Editor Uses CAPCUT For A Day…

Artem / furphy @FurphyRL said:
Hey, in the event you use Adobe/Creative Cloud, make sure that to show off the Content Analysis choice in settings, in any other case they’ll mechanically feed your work into their Al they’re working on.
It’s on by default :/

This ultimately brought on fairly a firestorm, with folks looking at alternatives or finalizing a change! Here’s a gentle however cautionary take.

School of Motion has takes on information in Adobe’s TOS Turmoil, Maxon’s New Tool, & Cara Breaks the Internet | Motion Mondays.

Ryan Summers asked:
“{ movement design } Is the obsessive reporting of each incremental replace on AI inside Motion Design Twitter & electronic mail newsletters contributing to the doomsdaying and general feeling of gloom within the business?

Are all of us ready for it to kneecap the business or is it already right here?”

Crafthive had further perspective in VFX r u ok? Why It Feels Like the End of VFX:

Udio, the AI music generator has been out for a number of months, and has 3 tiers of pricing (1 free). Theoretically Media shares an replace in Udio’s New Feature is a Gamechanger for AI Music. Maybe extra fascinating than that video is the response of Rick Beato, Told You This Was Going To Happen.

Here’s are 3 AI video stories: Matt Wolfe’s AI News: AI Video Better than Sora?!, This FREE AI Video Generator is Unbelievable! by Curious Refuge, and 5 Mindblowing AI Video & Lipsync Tools Just Dropped! from the man that makes you watch on YT.