19lights ships Ginger HDR
HDR tonemapping plugin for After Effects and Premiere now officially available for Windows and OS X.
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
After Effects
Sneak peek: 3ds Max's new MediaSync workflow
'Best interop with After Effects just got better' claims blog post for latest seven-minute preview video.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
AGF Multimedia releases DarkCorner for After Effects
GPU-accelerated plugin calculates ambient occlusion from the Z-depth data embedded in your renders.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Ginger HDR: tonemapping plugin for After Effects
Developer John Hable releases new tonemapping tool for After Effects in open beta. Get it before 8 January.
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Maxon releases free After Effects to Cinema 4D plug-in
Export projects from After Effects CS3 and above directly to Cinema 4D R13 with the latest release.
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
GenArts ships Sapphire v6
Leading collection of VFX sparks for Autodesk, Avid and After Effects updated to version 6. Pricey, but still vital, say reviewers.
Sunday, October 9th, 2011
Video Copilot releases 15 free HD stock particle clips
Use them to give commercial projects a little zing with the accompanying After Effects tutorial.
Monday, September 19th, 2011
After Effects gets its own physics engine
Now shipping: Motion Boutique releases its Newton rigid-body engine for Adobe's compositing app.
Monday, September 5th, 2011
Red Giant ships Trapcode Suite 11 for After Effects
Particle tool Trapcode Form gets a major upgrade in the latest update to Peder Norrby's VFX plug-ins.
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: videos of the upcoming 3ds Max update
Check out State Sets and iray running in an ActiveShade window - both due in the new Advantage Pack.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Monday freebies: 33 free video-editing plug-ins
CoreMelt releases 'CoreMeltFREE' sampler pack of its After Effects and Final Cut Pro video FX plug-ins.
Monday, March 21st, 2011
Review: GPU acceleration in Adobe Creative Suite 5
CS5's GPU-accelerated features speed up workflow - but your choice of card isn't as crucial as you think.
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Eye candy: the making of 'Eye of the Storm'
Oddball Animation posts detailed breakdown of its VFX work for this 'stylised steampunk' music video.
Friday, February 11th, 2011