10 essential After Effects plugins

With the arrival of Adobe’s Creative Cloud, more designers than ever have access to After Effects. We’ve rounded up 10 essential plugins for the motion graphics software.

ANIMOGRAPHY

Animography.net is a webshop/typefoundry that provides motion designers, video-editors and others in the field of the moving image with animated typefaces. These animated typefaces are easy to use, customizable and scalable without any loss of quality. Our animated typefaces are Adobe After Effects files with each glyph in a separate composition. A controller-composition serves as a central point from which you can customize all the glyphs in one go. Use to quickly create title sequences, TV commercials, presentations, on-stage concert graphics, etcetera! Browse through our expanding collection or have a look at the tutorial section for a peek under the hood.

After Effects and Cinema 4D get married!

New features announced for After Effects CS7 include a 'live 3D pipeline' between Adobe's tool and Maxon's Cinema 4D. It's the start of something special for the two 3D tools...

We're One Step Closer to Bringing Holograms Home

It seems as though everyone is fascinated with the possibilities and promises of a holographic 3D world. With major events such as Coachella and the London Olympics showing off the latest in hologram technology, it's not hard to desire the concept in theatres, stores or homes. Let's face it: Who doesn’t want to live in a place where holographic projections a la Star Wars communicate information?

Director Ran Out of Money, Finished Shooting his Oscar-Nominated Movie on an iPhone

While filming Oscar-nominated documentary "Searching for Sugar Man", director Malik Bendjelloul said, in an interview with CNN Money, that he ran out of money and had to finish filming his movie on his iPhone with the 8mm Vintage Camera app.

Fix It In Post - Sometimes it's a Good Thing

Have you ever heard the phrase, "We'll fix it in post?" Depending on how you tackle it, that line could be your worst nightmare or your best friend.

QRmovie puts adaptive, animated QR codes in film

The very mention of QR codes will likely incite groans in the least cynical of technophiles. What once was a tangible and exciting example of two-worlds colliding, bringing the physical world into the digital realm with funky barcodes and smartphones, now illustrates what can happen when we’re not really quite sure how to implement a fledgling technology. Football teams with QR codes on their shirts? I rest my case.

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