After Effects News

We're pleased to announce that CGPress now features a free jobs listing service. Anyone can list relevant vacancies on the dedicated jobs page free for 30 days and reach tens of thousands of professionals in the 3D industry. You'll find the new jobs board from the menu at the top of the main page, and a list of the most recent jobs on the right-hand sidebar. 

We're just getting started, but you can visit the new jobs page now, or advertise a vacancy simply by filling out this form (posts are moderated). 

AG_codeWerks has released an open source watch folder style render manager for After Effects. It can launch several instance of After Effects and work in a similar fashion to the native watch folder render queue but promises greater stability by not colliding several processes while accessing the control file. It also promises fewer resources to run in the background. Find out more on AG_codeWerks website. 

Arqui9 Vizualisation has released a tutorial on how to add subtle animation to your still renders to create architectural cinematographs. Watch it on Youtube. 

TJ Free channel has uploaded 20 free tutorials to help users get up to speed with Natron, the open source compositing application. Watch the playlist on YouTube. 

FXhome has released Imerge Pro, a new image compositing application that promises a fully non-destructive workflow working with RAW images, with no need to compress an image to 8-bit just to apply an effect, and the ability to edit the effect at any time.  (more...)

Update. Video Copilot's Orb is now available (and free). You can find out more and download the plugin and watch a 30 minute tutorial on the dedicated page on the Video Copilot website.  (more...)

Adobe has revealed what to expect in this year's fall update of After Effects CC. New features include a new advanced puppet engine, the ability to work with depth passes from native 3D layers (finally!), and a new JavaScript expression engine that boast a much more modern architecture and speed improvements of up to 5x.  (more...)

James Whiffin from Plugin Everything has released a tutorial explaining the basics of creating a plugin using the After Effects SDK. Watch it on Vimeo.