After Effects News

Open source plugin ProEXR 2.0 is currently in development and a beta is now available for testing. The update adds support for Cryptomatte to the After Effects plugin, enabling users to decode masks that are created automatically using compatible renderers (including Clarisse, Arnold, Mantra, Redshift and V-Ray). The beta installer is available to download by following the links in the Decoders section of the Cryptomatte GIT repository.

Chaos Group has announced V-Ray 3.7.01 for Nuke introducing progressive rendering plus several other features including support for Nuke 11.1, support for light linking, a new multipoint ramp texture, hair shader and hair sampler support and the addition of dome cameras in VRay Camera. See all the changes in the documentation. 

Richard Frangenberg has released a Prism, a new free pipeline management tool for animation and VFX that's compatible with Houdini, Maya, 3DS Max, Blender, and Nuke. In addition it can work with other popular tools including RV, DJV, and VLC for media playback; Deadline and Pandora for submitting to the farm; and Shotgun for project tracking.  (more...)

• F-Splines - new shape representation for ultimate flexibility: combine unique powers of Beziers and X-Splines in a single curve.
• Hard Edge Checker - will save the day when dealing with motion blur.
• Pause Viewer - you can now freeze a selected Viewer to achieve real-time playback when using multiple Viewers.
• Crop - now you can crop your 4K plate to save memory and keep the best performance
• Corner Pin Import - easily import Corner Pin from Mocha or Nuke
• Render to separate channels - split your roto into separate channels to save on rendering time.

Adobe has announced updates to Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, and Media Encoder, bringing several new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Photoshop gets the new Select Subject feature, an AI powered selection tool that enable users to isolate prominent objects in one click and then refine the selection using standard tools. To go alongside this there are some improvements to Select and Mask tools including a new slider that allows users to adjust the amount of colour decontamination that's applied to an image. Finally hardware support is improved with improvements to the scaling of the UI on high resolution monitors and improved integration with Microsoft Dial.