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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · 11h

Fun trick with After Effects beta: as you can now transform textures on 3D models, you can do cool stuff like UV offset animation for facial expressions and lip sync.

If you want to give it a try, this character is free from Mixamo and has eyes, brows and mouth separately controllable.

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · 1d

Goofing around with mixing parametric meshes and expressions in After Effects beta. This is fun.

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · 12d

Both!

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · 12d

🆕 Major updates to After Effects beta! 🎉
community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

Parametric Meshes
Substance 3D Materials
Import SVGs as native shapes
Maintain gradients converting Illustrator layers to shapes
Scale and rotate gradients
Unmult effect
New audio effects
Lossless compressed playback

Now in Beta: Enhanced 3D and Vector Workflows, New Effects and Improved Caching

Hello After Effects users! We have a cornucopia of new features entering public beta today in version 26.0x8, and we’re excited to share what’s on the way: 3D workflow enhancements Parametric M...

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · 18d

Are you running into specific issues or looking for a better workflow?

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · 27d

This technique would also work really well with an animated 3D model + the 3D Channel Extract effect to get the depth map.

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · 27d

Very cool new tutorial from @sternfx.bsky.social ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuwR...

How to Build a Face from Digits in After Effects

YouTube video by SternFX

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · Sep 29

Is there a way to move our save file over from a Windows game?

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · Sep 24

Ah, got it! I'll add your vote to the (many!) folks asking for comps as materials -- this is exactly the kind of 2D+3D workflow we want to support in the future.

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · Sep 24

Not yet. How would you like to use it?

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · Sep 23

Who are your favorite After Effects tutorial makers?

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · Sep 16

25.4+ only. Older versions may crash on launch.

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · Sep 8

Off to London to meet up with fellow AE nerds and see some standup, then on to IBC. The journey begins! 🛫

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · Aug 16

Good catch, I can repro this too. How weird! We’ll look into it.

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · Aug 14

After Effects 25.4 is live! 🎉
Easily offset layers just by dragging, paste text formatting, work with CICP metadata for HDR images, and get quick access to info about effects.

More details:
helpx.adobe.com/after-effect...

Fixed Issues:
helpx.adobe.com/after-effect...

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · Aug 14

Just saw an ad for a product made from “plant based wood” and now I want to know what the alternative is.

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · Aug 12

This article was a supreme delight: grab a cup of tea, set aside 10 or 15 minutes, and enjoy this story about The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan.

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(via @ferociousj.bsky.social)

The hardest working font in Manhattan

A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · Aug 1

Sometimes it'll be your own name! 😁

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · Aug 1

🆕 Pleased to share that 💡Tip of the Day💡 is back and better than ever in After Effects beta!

Open an empty comp window to see a helpful tip submitted by an AE community member (maybe even yourself?). Here are a few examples; there are more than 100 in all.

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A Tip of the Day in After Effects: "Command-Option-Shift-T" creates a new Text layer automatically in the center of your Comp panel. - Laura Porat

A Tip of the Day in After Effects: If you need a layer to spinf orever, add the expression "time*100" to its Rotate property. Increase or decrease the multiplier to change the speed. Works for any property! - Michelle Higa Fox

A Tip of the Day in After Effects: Polystars with odd points, like triangles, don't rotate evenly beecause the layer and geometric centres differ. Instead, create an even-pointed shape, then change the number of points to odd so the Anchor Point behaves as expected. - Rob Barrett

A Tip of the Day in After Effects: Did you know you can sample colors outside of After Effects? Press Return when the eyedropper is active and over the color you want to grab. - Michael Szalapski

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · Jul 30

And you have to keep them charged, and trust they’re going to pair reliably.

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · Jul 30

My hunch: the rise in this behavior correlates with the disappearance of headphone jacks from mobile devices. It added friction to doing the polite thing.

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · Jul 29

🆕 in beta: After Effects running natively on Windows ARM:

community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

Announcement: Windows on ARM Native in After Effects Beta

We are excited to announce the public beta release of Windows on ARM native support in After Effects 25.6 build 7! We expect After Effects to run on all Qualcomm Snapdragon X-based laptops and tablets...

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · Jul 25

Some fun morning noodling around in After Effects with Card Dance and Radio Waves.

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · Jul 7

A recent addition to After Effects beta: clean up your 3D giz-mess by adjusting all your 3D layers with a single gizmo. Makes 3D interaction a lot faster, too!

More info: community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

Before: a 3D scene in After Effects where every 3D layer gets its own gizmo controller, which can make it hard to see what's going on.

After: Several 3D layers are selected in After Effects, but only the layer in the center has a controller and it can adjust all the layers at once.

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · Jun 20

Also 🆕 in After Effects beta this week: spot and parallel light shadows in Advanced 3D are now faster and higher quality.

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