Video Copilot releases Element 3D 1.5
Free update to the plugin adds support for rendering 3D animations in real time inside After Effects.
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
After Effects
Eye candy: Exodus
Cool glows rule supreme in Magnus Östergren's unique freeform short, created with After Effects' Mir plugin.
Friday, January 18th, 2013
Eye candy: R'ha
It's aliens vs Skynet in Kaleb Lechowski's incredible one-man short, created in seven months in Blender and Maya.
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
Eye candy: Lux Aeterna
Cristóbal Vila's beautiful short, created in modo and Cinema 4D, journeys from distant galaxies to droplets of water.
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
Video tutorial: MediaSync workflow in 3ds Max 2013
Watch Autodesk's Gary M. Davis explore new ways to use 3ds Max with After Effects and Photoshop.
Monday, December 31st, 2012
RE:Vision Effects ships RE:Match for After Effects
New colour-matching plugin suite fixes common visual problems with multi-camera and stereo shoots.
Friday, November 16th, 2012
Imagineer Systems releases mocha 3.1
Planar tracker gets support for RED footage, new lens distortion tools, improved workflow with Scratch.
Thursday, November 8th, 2012
OLM Digital updates its open-source plugins
Noise Deformer updated to Maya 2013; Photoshop and After Effects antialiasing tool OLM Smoother gets new Nuke version.
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
Adobe announces Adobe Anywhere
New streaming tech lets Premiere Pro and After Effects users work on files from anywhere in the world.
Monday, September 10th, 2012
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R14
Updated: Download the demo to try the dynamics tools, brush-based sculpting and AE interoperability.
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
Goodmotion releases GM FoldLayers for After Effects
Free beta of new plugin lets users arrange AE layers in foldable groups, eliminating precomps
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
Red Giant Software releases Trapcode Mir
Peder Norrby's After Effects plugin creates fast-rendering abstract 3D geometry that reacts to AE's lights.
Thursday, August 2nd, 2012
LightWave 11.5 feature list 'announced'
Although probably not officially, given that it's on the Amazon EC2 cloud. Warning: may contain spoilers.
Friday, July 27th, 2012