After Effects News

Allegorithmic have posted a new video showing the latest developments in their 3D painting software. Watch it on YouTube.

Jarrett Heather used After Effects to create the latest video for "Weird Al" Yankovic's, "Word Crimes" in which he invested over 500 hours of blood, sweat, and tears to deliver the 3 minute, and 44 second animation. You can watch the video, as well as a behind the scenes look at the video, on Jarrett's website.

Samuel Conlogue has released a 2 part tutorial demonstrating the colouring and post production effects used at Infusion Studios. Part 1 focuses primarily on Magic Bullet Looks while part 2 is more advanced, with explanations on how to grade animated footage using After Effecs' built-in color correction tools in conjunction with Optical Flares and Real Smart Motion Blur from RE:Vision Effects. Watch part 1 and part 2 on the Infusion Effects website.

Imagineer Systems have released the latest version of their planar tracker, Mocha Pro 4.0. Mocha Pro 4.0 brings new advanced tools for stereo 3d, python scripting, Adobe Premiere support, and much more. This latest release also brings the new Mocha Plus, a replacement for Mocha AE which now includes a new 3d camera solver, and lens correction toolset. For more details on this latest release, you can check out the Imagineer Systems website.

qp Nuclear LUT is a plugin for After Effects that applies log-to-lin functions to show log colour encoded footage properly in , while still retaining the over bright values, the same way Nuke does with its read/write nodes. You can find out more about qp Nuclear LUT on the aescripts website.

Alan Eddie has released Render Templates, a script for After Effects that allows you to automatically generate and render to folders based on your pre-defined project directory structure. You can read the full details and purchase Render Templates from the aescripts website.

Quba Michalski has published a video tutorial on using his uberNumber() function for formatting text for dynamically generated numbers in After Effects.

In an earlier post, it was mentioned that Adobe was hosting a webinar focusing on approaches to using After Effects if you are an editor. The results of that webinar have now been posted online and it can be viewed in it's entirety over on Adobe's website.