Had to log into a bunch of stuff tonight and encountered amazing bad UX. Type "WA" for state, get Delaware. Ability to donate negative dollars. A form that would not tell me why it wouldn't submit. An appointment confirmation titled "LOGGED OUT."
Flomotion has a nice overview of the new AE beta features: youtu.be/59eBqmvGEFo
🆕 Depth of Field comes to Advanced 3D in After Effects beta!
It's fast, easy to control and even works through transparency.
community.adobe.com/announcement...
Adobe After Effects UI: a Quick Apply dialog box with a search bar floats above a 3D sphere with a rocky planet texture that includes displacement and emission.
🆕 Two new features in After Effects beta today!
Quick Apply: community.adobe.com/announcement...
Displacement of Substance 3D Materials on Parametric Meshes: community.adobe.com/announcement...
Object Matte being used to select a skateboarder
What happens if you mix the speed of Premiere's Object Mask with the precision control of AE's Roto Brush?
You get Object Matte, new in After Effects beta.
community.adobe.com/announcement...
🆕 A very useful new feature just went live in After Effects beta! Proportional Scrubbing lets you select a bunch of values and offset them relative to each other. Kinda like Quick Offset but for property values instead of over time.
community.adobe.com/announcement...
You should be able to control this by using an OCIO config file.
Sonduck making some really pretty stuff with After Effects 26.0: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHeM...
🎉 After Effects 26.0 is here! 🎉
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCJ7...
Too many new features to fit in one post:
helpx.adobe.com/in/after-eff...
We have a metal chimney the flickers love to hammer in spring and the way it echoes inside the house is wild.
The modern equivalent to this political cartoon from 1856: magazine.punch.co.uk/gallery-imag...
Hard to believe this is After Effects, but it is! Nikie is so good at this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IcA...
🆕 in After Effects beta today: some nice text extrusion improvements. If you've tried mixing variable font animation and 3D extrusion, you're going to get much better results now. Should fix many long-standing extrusion issues with non-variable fonts as well.
community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...
Knives Out underwhelmed me at first because I'd just read a bunch of really weird surreal mysteries and people kept saying KO was "a totally new twist on the genre!" etc. Benoit Blanc was so exaggerated that I thought the big twist would be that he was one of the victim's fictional characters.
And here's the info on Crop Comp to Selected Layer Bounds: community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...
But wait, there's more!
Very useful additions to expressions and scripting:
community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...
Overhauled Preferences: community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...
And a long-requested Crop Comp to Layer Bounds command.
With the big beta feature release a couple weeks ago there were a bunch of "But what about variable fonts?" comments that I was dying to respond to. Here they are! And they're endless fun to play with. This is just one single text layer:
🆕 Something big is coming to After Effects beta today: Variable Font Animation!
community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...
🆕 After Effects 25.6 is live!
It's primarily a quality release (60 fixes!) but also includes one of my favorite new features: the return of Tip of the Day, with helpful suggestions from AE experts around the world. Collecting these has been an absolute joy.
helpx.adobe.com/after-effect...
Using AI-manipulated images (and the "virtual staging" etc. that came before it) in real estate listings should be regulated: you should also have to post the original of any photo you modify.
Today in "extremely silly things you can make in After Effects" thanks to the new beta: bagel fountain
Fun trick with After Effects beta: as you can now transform textures on 3D models, you can do cool stuff like UV offset animation for facial expressions and lip sync.
If you want to give it a try, this character is free from Mixamo and has eyes, brows and mouth separately controllable.
Goofing around with mixing parametric meshes and expressions in After Effects beta. This is fun.
Both!
🆕 Major updates to After Effects beta! 🎉
community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...
Parametric Meshes
Substance 3D Materials
Import SVGs as native shapes
Maintain gradients converting Illustrator layers to shapes
Scale and rotate gradients
Unmult effect
New audio effects
Lossless compressed playback
Are you running into specific issues or looking for a better workflow?
This technique would also work really well with an animated 3D model + the 3D Channel Extract effect to get the depth map.
Very cool new tutorial from @sternfx.bsky.social ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuwR...
Is there a way to move our save file over from a Windows game?
Ah, got it! I'll add your vote to the (many!) folks asking for comps as materials -- this is exactly the kind of 2D+3D workflow we want to support in the future.
