After Effects 25.1 is the present model, with no huge current bulletins. The December 2024 (25.1) launch consists of important fixes, and Adobe listed remaining Known issues in After Effects.
And sure, After Effects is 32 years outdated. New features embrace:
- Accepts Lights change for 3D layers
- 3D mannequin preview thumbnail
- Cinema 4D 2025 improve in After Effects
After Effects v 25.2.0.122 (2025-02-24) is in Beta and does embrace essential new options:
Film Riot thought of current Insane Updates for Adobe Premiere & After Effects and extra in After Effects Guide: Advanced 3D Edition | Adobe Video x.
AEP shared February 12 particulars on what’s New in Adobe Firefly Video (beta). Of course, this gen AI video mannequin integrates okay, although it isn’t class main, and comparative prices are exhausting to estimate. The complimentary beta credits run out quickly.
There’s extra beneath, however for now, flomotion says Adobe Firefly is AWESOME!! try it out now!! And Futurepedia has comparisons in Adobe Firefly Video is Finally Here – Fully Tested and Compared.
In Get After Effects to work the way YOU want, Jake In Motion walks you thru his strategy of utilizing ChatGPT AI to make Fractal Noise Generator, a fancy, dockable script for After Effects. He additionally additionally exhibits tips on how to make 3 superior primitive shapes with controls for non-destructively manipulating them in ways in which After Effects can’t. Jake makes use of ChatGPT‘s o4 and o3-mini-high fashions for superior reasoning and coding capabilities. The o3-mini-high mannequin is very helpful for scripting and is best at writing After Effects Expressions. You can download everything created on this video free of charge as script UI panels, scriptlets, or presets.
Kyle Hamrick spends 3 hours that will help you Learn After Effects | Beginner Motion Design Workshop, which incorporates challenge Files and a PDF information.
In 3 MUST KNOW VFX In 2025 (After Effects Tutorial), After Effects Basics exhibits tips on how to create a dancing constructing impact, an audio visualizer, and animated textual content movement graphics. Then you can also turn out to be a god🤞.
SonduckFilm posted The Best 3D Techniques All After Effects Users Should Know and Make 3D Motion Graphics TRULY Cinematic in After Effects. The Jedi hand methods are actually cinematic!
Eran Stern shared Exploring Exciting NEW 3D Tools in After Effects, displaying some After Effects beta 3D updates, together with FBX help, enhanced lighting, and new workflow shortcuts.
Eran additionally posted Make 3D Wireframes in After Effects, in addition to evaluating outcomes with different options. See additionally, his Transform Flat Images into Dynamic 3D Models , which makes use of AI to generate a nonetheless then one other app to generate a mannequin earlier than bringing the 3D mannequin into AE.
Boone Loves Video exhibits tips on how to Elevate Your Map Animations with One Simple Effect, the Composition Border Animation Preset in After Effects.
Mike Murphy exhibits you How To Use seedRandom Expression in After Effects.
Check out Curl The Path, a script from François Lefebvre.
After Effects Tutorials w/ Mikey Borup has some new tools and tutorials, together with After Effects Tutorial: 4 Ways to do Motion Blur.
Skymography shared EASY Blur Reveal Text Animation (After Effects Tutorial). It’s straightforward after you’ve finished it!
David Sedlar shared Text Inside Text in After Effects, good if not gorgeous.
Mapal provides a contact of subtlety in Retro Glass Texture + Animation (After Effects Tutorial).
CC Ball Action , the poor man’s Trapcode Form, made the animated curtains (extra from Jake in Motion).
Mograph Mindset takes deep dives in Text Style Expressions in After Effects 2025 (ft. Kyle Hamrick) and After Effects Engineer Answers Questions, that includes John Colombo, a Senior Quality Engineer on the Adobe After Effects group.
On to AI… once more, AEP shared current particulars on what’s New in Adobe Firefly Video (beta). Here are two examples of my very own Firefly outcomes. What else may they be however mischievous jinn infestation 😅, the latter from a immediate “Adobe Firefly annoyances”:
Tony & Chelsea Northrup has enjoyable in I Tried Adobe’s AI Video Tool and Found OUTRAGEOUS Results.
There is another information in AI.
Matt Wolfe has AI new weekly in Claude 3.7 & GPT 4.5: Why This Week Was INSANE (deja vu over again).
Curious Refuge had one other AI filmmaking roundup with Curious Refuge Joins Promise Studios, which features a take a look at Adobe Firefly. See additionally 5 Best AI Video Generators (2025) by Kevin Stratvert.
Theoretically Media regarded nearer at particular new releases in AI video mills in This Open-Source Ai Video Generator Nailed It! (on the free for now WAN 2.1 from Alibaba) and Veo-2 Image To Video: Is It Worth The Price? (Google’s “Midjourney of AI video”).
It’s not all sunshine and lollipops after all. Check out Visual Venture’s The Most Unsettling AI Websites On The Internet and This AI deepfake tool is WAY too real by AI Search.
But wait, thee’s extra… PiXimperfect challenges us in 7 Photoshop Tools Replaced by AI – Are They Obsolete? He says that with options like Distraction Removal, Remove Tool, Super Resolution, Generative Expand, and AI Denoise, Photoshop is extra highly effective than ever. But what about traditional instruments like Content-Aware Fill, Clone Stamp, Spot Healing, Dodge & Burn, and Sharpening? Have they been utterly changed, or do they nonetheless have a spot in skilled enhancing? He places them to the take a look at in opposition to AI-driven alternate options to see the place they nonetheless shine and the place AI takes the lead.
5 Years of Visual Effects Editing in 1 Video from Skymography stresses reference over tutorials.
For enjoyable, see How de-aging in movies got so good from Vox.
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