CG Channel

After Effects

Everything from creatures to ray guns, licensed for commercial use. Good for Unity & After Effects, too.

Thursday, August 28th, 2014

Updated and now shipping: Turn any model into an editable, relightable cloud with this neat Maya plugin.

Wednesday, August 20th, 2014

Morphing and warping plugin gets GPU acceleration. It's OpenCL-based, so you can use most cards.

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014

The product formerly known as mocha AE now also brings tracking and roto tools to Premiere Pro users.

Friday, July 11th, 2014

Eye candy: Auroras

Niles Heckman tells us how he made his labour-of-love FX short, rendered over three years on a single PC.

Monday, July 7th, 2014

Updated: New Key Cleaner and Advanced Spill Suppressor to rescue bad greenscreen; better mask workflow.

Thursday, June 19th, 2014

Update to GPU-based renderer adds displacement, per-object motion blur; speeds up hair renders 20 times.

Tuesday, June 10th, 2014

Updated: Over 30 free After Effects, Premiere, FCP X and Motion plugins. Premium membership also now live.

Wednesday, April 30th, 2014

New plugin pack provides over 130 grading, keying and effects tools for After Effects, Premiere Pro et al.

Tuesday, April 8th, 2014

New plugin makes it easier to pull mocha Pro tracking data into Nuke; adds stablised precomp workflow.

Friday, April 4th, 2014

Useful iOS reference app now lists keyboard shortcuts for 79 editing, 3D, compositing and tracking tools.

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014

Free GPU-accelerated update to colour-grading tool offers "up to 95%" speed boost on Windows.

Tuesday, April 1st, 2014

Affordable match-moving tool gets 3D planar tracker, better scripting support. Pricing cut still further.

Wednesday, November 20th, 2013