After Effects News

Easy After Effects has posted a tutorial that focuses on tracking using the fayIN plugin for After Effects . You can watch it on Youtube.

Skin Retouch is a free extension by Mamoworld that uses frequency separation to allow for skin smoothing while preserving details. It can also be used for removing wrinkles and doing other beauty retouch work. More on Mamoworld's website.

The Foundry has released the latest versions of Nuke, NukeX, and Nuke Studio. Release 10 focuses on enhancing performance and increasing stability, and offers accelerated Roto Paint performance, Vector Blur enhancements, OCIO integration, NVidia multi-GPU support, ray trace renderer (provides quality motion blur and shadows, support for reflections and ambient occlusion), etc. NukeX and Nuke Studio get a Smart Vector toolset for automated clean-up, replacement and augmentation tasks. (more...)

You can do it! VFX is making available for free its plugin that streamlines the workflow between 3DS Max and After Effects with interactive capabilities. Nyx Voltron was previously priced at 99€; according to YCDIVFX it will remain free for the next year and a half (and that date may be extended in the future). You can get the free version from the pinned post on the Nyx Voltron Facebook group. If you don't use Facebook, you can contact YCDIVFX and they'll provide you with a download link.

(Errata) The news item contained an old list of features. We have updated it with the latest. Our apologies to readers.
New features in the upcoming update to Adobe's Creative Cloud include: faster media ingest and editing workflows in Premiere Pro and Media Encoder, new VR Video capabilities in Premiere Pro, new Essential Sound panel in Audition to improve mixing and editing workflow, more responsive After Effects as well as performance and stability enhancements across the Adobe video and audio applications. Read on for more. (more...)

Nukepedia has posted a video walk through of Victor Tools 2 for Nuke. Victor Tools 2 is a set of Nuke gizmos and tools created by Victor Perez. Watch it on Vimeo.

What was thought of as a simple April fools prank has turned out to be a real plugin from the folks at Video Copilot. Glass Eyes for After Effects allows you to add custom 'googly-eyes' to your scenes. The plugin is free and can be download from the Video Copilot website.

RE:Vision Effects has released RE:Lens, an After Effects plugin that provides easy corrections and conversions for common projections and lens distortions. The plugin can unwarp curved footage, create panoramas from footage shot with super fisheye lenses and convert the video for 360 VR viewers. RE:Lens handles rectilinear, latitude longitude (equirectangular 360 panoramic VR), fisheye, super fisheye, super wide-angle zoom, mirror ball and parabolic lens-mirror projections. The plugin is being offered at an introductory price of $139.95 (regular price is $189.95) and supports AE CS5 and up. More on RE:Vision Effects' website.