Sunday, April 22nd, 2012 Posted by Jim Thacker

DarkCorner for After Effects now available for Mac


After Effects ambient occlusion plugin DarkCorner, ported to Mac after “overwhelming demand” from users.

AGF Multimedia has released Mac OS X versions of DarkCorner, its GPU-based ambient occlusion plugin for After Effects, and anti-aliasing plugin JaggyBuster.

Both plug-ins are now available for OS X Lion and work with After Effects CS5 onwards. Dark Corner is OpenGL-based, so it is compatible with any GPU that supports OpenGL 3.3 or higher.

DarkCorner uses Z-depth to calculate AO for still images or image sequences. Users can either supply the images in formats in which Z-depth information is automatically embedded, such as .rla or .rpf; or supply the Z-depth data via a second image sequence. Normal data can also be used to help the calculation.

DarkCorner and JaggyBuster are available in a bundle deal, price $89.90, until the end of May.

Visit the DarkCorner website

Download an evaluation version of DarkCorner