London-based motion design and VFX Studio Mainframe has announced a free public beta of its new motion design software Cavalry. Cavalry promises the user a new procedural application with ambitions to make take on the existing heavy-hitters in the animation, design, creative coding, film, generative art, data visualisation, experiential and advertising industries.
To simplify the creation of complex animation it has several preset actions that can be mixed together to automate common tasks quickly. In Cavalry, these are called Behaviours.
It features include toolsets for driving animations using external data contained in .csv files of live from Google Sheets, duplication and distribution tools for grids and layouts, animated type tools, GPU acceleration and more.
To learn more and join the free beta, visit the Cavalry website.
Finally a proper AE Alternative, thanks for the info.
This is specifically for motion design, it is not a compositing solution. So, it is by no means an AE alternative. It does not do image processing like keying or tracking etc.. It is more of a procedural approach to Adobe Illustrator with an animation timetable.
You are correct, for my use case it’s nice alternative because motion design is what I mostly use AE for
Wrong. This comes straight from them: “Is Cavalry a fully fledged compositor?
Cavalry is first and foremost an animation app, but we intend to have basic compositing features in 1.0”
So when 1.0 will have basic comp features, it’ll get more later on.
No nodes? Meh…
Childish response.
This also is a statement from the makers: “Is Cavalry node based?
Yes. However you won’t need to use a node graph to use Cavalry, in fact, we haven’t even built a node graph editor yet. We feel very strongly that you should be able to use Cavalry without even knowing what a node is. That said, in the future it is inevitable that we’ll first add a flow graph view, then a node graph editor for our more advanced users.