After Effects Plugins
Cult Effects
Cycore Computers. Cult Effects is a brand new set of 18 plug-ins for
Adobe After Effects. Packed with indispensable tools to give you creative
freedom and almost endless possibilities to deliver high-quality effects.
"Just CE Paint alone is an absolute essential for every serious After
Effects user. From minor touchups and dust removal to full scene painting,
it's fast, easy to use and non-destructive. Truly amazing" Tim Sassoon,
Sassoon Film Design
AddEffects
Multimedia Lab. Multimedia Lab's AddEffects 1.1 brings high-end 3D and
2D digital video effects to Adobe Premiere® and Adobe After Effects
for Windows. AddEffects allows you to design your own effects and comes
with dozens of prebuilt presets such as 3D explosions, page turns, morph,
3D waves, and lights. Professional features such as key-framing (including
linear and spline interpolation), motion blur, ray-tracing, antialiasing,
and black border crop put AddEffects in a class of its own.
Frame buffer plug-in
Plug-in will preview After Effects composition on your TV or monitor
if you have graphics card with TV out.
Ambience Extractor
Sonic Engineering: If your soundtrack sounds dull, spice it up with
the Ambience Extractor. Enhances the stereo imaging of mono or stereo
sound, making it feel open, alive, and spacious. Consists of five tools:
Maxx Stereo, Ambience Extractor, Mono-to-Stereo Converter, Stereo-to-Mono
Converter, and Center Channel Remover (very effective for removing vocals
from a music track).
3D Invigorator for After Effects
Zaxwerks Inc. The 3D Invigorator is a system for producing 3D graphics
directly inside After Effects. It is especially designed for fast turn-arounds,
easy revisions and producing 3D graphics on a deadline. The Invigorator
is a giant leap forward in motion graphics production because you have
a professional level 2D animation and compositing system (After Effects)
combined with a professional level 3D modeling, animation and rendering
system (The Invigorator). Together they form a very very powerful production
team which lets you combine 2D and 3D at will. Features instant chrome
and glass, soft shadows, full anti-aliasing and alpha channels, for perfect
compositing.
eFX Pyro
eFX Pyro is an Adobe After Effects plug-in from electricFX that produces
realistic 3D fire and smoke effects. Developed in association with Areté
Entertainment, this product is based on Areté's Digital NatureTools™
platform, which has been used by many of the film industry's top visual
effects companies to create authentic-looking water and atmospheric effects
for such films as Pearl Harbor, Titanic, Cast Away, The Truman Show, Devil's
Advocate and The Fifth Element. There is no other technology available
for After Effects that offers this level of realism and flexibility.
Added: 11-Jun-2003 Clicks: 635 Rating: 3
Evolution 1.0
Atomic Power Corporation. Evolution is a next-generation set of professional
filters for After Effects. With the powerful Shatter, you can extrude
a layer into 3D space, then blow it up in an infinite number of entertaining
ways. You have full control over the shape of the pieces, the physics
of the explosion, and the texture of all sides of the extruded pieces.
With full camera controls, a Shatter effect can be easily composited into
any scene. Turbulator is a powerful fractal-based displacement system,
useful for generating everything from convincing clouds, fire, and smoke
to photo-realistic water. Foam is an all-purpose flocking particle system,
complete with collision detection, suitable for effects from beer spills
to swarming ants. Card Wipe and Card Dance generate convincing stadium-card
transitions and choreography with full 3D camera controls. Vegas generates
casino-style running lights - and other path-based effects - around any
object. Together with shape-based particle systems, physics-based wave
systems, a powerful tinting/color-cycling tool, and a caustic water rendering
engine, Evolution is a powerful set of tools for all After Effects users.
Ships with a full Evolution training series from Total Training. Compatible
with After Effects 3.1 and 4.0 Evolution 1.0 is a set of 14 effects design
filters for Adobe After Effects(TM) 3.1/4.0 and products which completely
support the After Effects plug-in specification. The Evolution filters
were designed, based on years of experience with After Effects, to solve
specific production issues. Evolution includes real 3D Z-Space layers
with accurate lighting and shadows, a Flocking Particle System with collision
detection, and a 3D Shatter filter for physics-based explosions.
Added: 11-Jun-2003 Clicks: 618 Rating: 3
Boris AE 3.0
Artel Software. Boris AE 3.0 includes over 40 filters that cover a broad
range of effects from 3D shapes to color correction and keying. By involving
an extensive list of artists from around the world in the development
process, Artel Software Inc. has created a plug-in set that truly addresses
the needs of the After Effects user. With unique tools such as The Pixel
Chooser Boris AE 2.0 offers an extraordinary amount of precision control
over every move, while rendering extremely fast.
Added: 11-Jun-2003 Clicks: 499 Rating: 4
Maya Paint Effects Plug-in
The Maya® Paint Effects™ plug-in for Adobe After Effects®
4.1 gives you access to Alias|Wavefront's groundbreaking new paint technology
for creating amazing natural detail directly within your compositing application.
The Paint Effects Plug-in for Adobe After Effects is available for Windows
NT and Macintosh.
The Maya Paint Effects Plug-in for Windows NT and Macintosh enables you
to apply detailed paint strokes of plants, fibers, glows, water, metal,
natural media and more along a mask, bezier path or motion path. With
this unique paint plug-in, artists can quickly create and animate the
most complex organic and painterly detail in two and three-dimensional
brush modes.
smartGIF
by SiteJazz
smartGIF™ is a powerful Adobe Photoshop plug-in that takes the labor
out of saving Web-ready images. Its innovative multi-selection technology
makes it an export standout.
Added: 11-Jun-2003 Clicks: 68 Rating: 5
DDR/AE Plug-in
The DDR/AE Plug-in integrates Accom digital disk recorders (DDRs) directly
into the After Effects production environment. Video images and sequences
on the Accom DDR can be viewed or captured directly from within After
Effects. Similarly, After Effects compositions can be rendered directly
to the Accom DDR.
Added: 11-Jun-2003 Clicks: 228 Rating: 5
Image Lounge
Puffin Designs. Image Lounge gives you the ultimate style tools to infuse
any image or text with creative and exciting looks. Use the filters that
will give your animations, graphic designs, music videos, corporate communication,
and visual effects work a heavy dose of fresh style.
Added: 11-Jun-2003 Clicks: 311 Rating: 6
Photo/Graphic Edges 3.0
Vol 1: Traditional Edge Effects
Vol 2: Geometric Edge Effects
Vol 3: Artistic Edge Effects
Added: 11-Jun-2003 Clicks: 122 Rating: 6
ADI Filmpak
ADI Inc. Eastman Kodak's CINEON digital film system "is a computer-based
system designed for compositing, special effects, color correction, and
restoration. It empowers filmmakers to achieve new levels of creative
freedom, productivity, and control while capturing, manipulating, and
outputting the immense image detail and density range within film.
Added: 11-Jun-2003 Clicks: 651 Rating: 7
AutoMasker AE 2.0
AutoMedia Ltd. This After Effects plug-in automates and expedites the
tedious process of hand-masking. It enables you to isolate, paint, extract,
and insert selected objects into video streams in a fraction of the time
required by conventional hand-masking. As a result, it dramatically reduces
the cost incurred using conventional frame-by-frame painting.
Added: 11-Jun-2003 Clicks: 679 Rating: 8
Aurorix 2
DigiEffects. This set of 26 special effects filters includes AgedFilm
2, VideoLook 2, Earthquake 2, and Turbulent Flow 2. With Aurorix 2 you
can easily generate lighting effects, wild distortions, mild to insane
animated textures, and animated patterns, as well as simulate visual media
such as old film and grungy video. It ships on a CD-ROM with printed quick
reference, samples, electronic user manual, and more.
Added: 11-Jun-2003 Clicks: 775 Rating: 9
Commotion 2
Puffin Designs. With thousands of users worldwide, Commotion sets the
standard for visual effects creation on the desktop. Award winning features
include image editing/effects, matte creation, and integrated motion tracking
tools.
Added: 11-Jun-2003 Clicks: 538 Rating: 10
Diaquest DDR
Diaquest. The Diaquest DDR After-Effects plug-in integrates digital disk
recorders (DDRs) directly into the After Effects production environment.
Video images and sequences on DDRs can be viewed or captured directly
from within After Effects. Similarly, After Effects compositions can be
rendered directly to DDRs.
Added: 11-Jun-2003 Clicks: 121 Rating: 11
Eye Candy 3.1 for After Effects
Alien Skin Software. Eye Candy 3.1 for After Effects gives you the sophisticated,
organic special effects that Alien Skin Software is known for in Web,
print, and presentation graphics. This dazzling set of 20 sophisticated
special effects like Fire, Smoke and Fur have never been easier! Includes
production, distortion and texture effects like Perspective Shadow, Motion
Trail, Inner and Outer Bevel, Cutout, Chrome, Carve, Glass, Glow, Star,
Swirl and more. Eye Candy 3.1 for After Effects automatically adapts to
and modifies layer opacity information, and allows users to draw outside
layer boundaries without precomposing.
Added: 11-Jun-2003 Clicks: 387 Rating: 12
Foundry plug-ins for After Effects
Foundry. Foundry plug-ins are an established tool in high-end post production.
This initial release of three popular plug-ins, LensBlur, Sparkle and
Kaleidoscope will enable digital artists to create effects previously
only possible on more expensive systems. LensBlur accurately simulates
a camera lens defocus providing those characteristic blurred polygonal
highlights. Sparkle adds coloured radial rays to pixels above a luma threshold.
Controls are provided for the length, number, rotation and strength of
the sparkles. Kaleidoscope is a classic triangular prism effect with controls
for size, centre and rotation.
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