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Review: Cartoon Moblur by Plugin Everything
Cartoon Moblur by Plugin Everything is a new tool for Adobe After Effects that allows you to create 2D style motion blur trails very quickly, without needing to tinker so much with quality controls or particle systems. Before I start this review, I do want to point out that Plugin Everything did sponsor this review, […]
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Squash and Stretch by Mamoworld
The folks over at Mamoworld have again created a very simplified tool to create some very complex and artistic animations. Squash and Stretch is their latest FREE tool aimed at bringing handcrafted easing, squashing, overshooting animations to your projects with a click of a button. The animations are handcrafted and keyframed by animators, which are […]
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Adobe CEP Extension Development Experience
CEP extensions (Common Extensibility Platform) have been around since the start of the Creative Cloud days, but they weren’t, and still aren’t widespread amongst developers and users. Even today, most extensions in my opinion are mostly Photoshop and InDesign related stuff – hardly anything for After Effects. Despite this, there has been a growth in AE […]
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Cycles 4D Renderer by INSYDIUM
INSYDIUM, the developer of the very popular particle systems X-Particle for Cinema 4D, has announced that they are working on creating a bridge in Cinema 4D to utilize Blender’s GPU based render engine, Cycles. The plugin, Cycles 4D, hopes to create a true link to Blender’s Cycles, claiming users will be able to follow any […]
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Kuler 5: Shapes (Massive Giveaway)
Another Kuler5 contest has arrived, and this time we have a ton of amazing prizes from Zack Lovatt and Tomas Sinkunas. We usually pick a very specific theme to challenge your creative minds, but this time we’re going simple: shapes. Kuler5 For those who are new, Kuler5 is a contest where you create a 5 second […]
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Interview: UI Designs with Nicolas Lopardo
Today we have a special interview with Nicolas Lopardo, a very talented designer well known for his intricate FUI/UI/HUD designs and animations on Twitter and social media. I thought it would be a great idea to ask him where he gets his inspiration from, how these beautiful detailed graphics are created, and how he got […]
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Learn How to Write After Effects Scripts
After Effects scripts are coded tools to automate processes that would be too tedious to do manually, such as bulk renaming layers, shifting certain shape layers, importing text from a spreadsheet file, or organizing your project structure. In essence, scripts can do the manual tasks you can do, except faster. It cannot do things you […]