Adobe is a core application for so many artists because it can do so much, especially when coupled with its huge range of third party After Effects plugins. The right add-ons can add new functionality or help you streamline your workflow. Combine them with a dive into some of the many awesome around to take your animations and to the next level. • In this post, we’ll take a dive into the glorious world of After Effects plugins for 2018. There are a lot to choose from, but in this post I’ll share the 10 which I have been using regularly this year.
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These After Effects plugins will help enhance your workflow, add features that simply don’t exist in the core After Effects application, and simply just make stuff look cool. • Price: From $295/year While After Effects does offer pretty good tracking tools (including the bundled from Boris FX), if you're after something more advanced, it's worth upgrading to the feature-rich Mocha Pro. This powerful, versatile plugin supports both AE and Premiere. It's built on Academy Award-winning planar tracking, and can easily handle even the most challenging tracking, masking and stabilisation projects. The Brand new also features an improved user interface, impressive GPU object removal, magnetic splines for roto work and 360/VR support. • Price: $249.99 Plexus from Rowbyte Software has become one of the few plugins that has become synonymous with a certain look: everyone knows what to expect when a brief asks for the Plexus effect. The fact is, with some manipulation Plexus is capable of so much more than dots and lines.
This is even more true Version 3, which comes with even more effects and enhancements. My favourite is the Plexus Object Panel, which offers a easy way to manage the plexus scene – something I would love to see in other complex After Effects plugins. • Price: $49 PQ FUI Toys 2 is a life-saver if you need to add fancy UI graphics to a project, quickly.
This After Effects plugin offers a great range of small motion graphic elements you can use to enhance your. While the artist in you may scoff at the idea of using pre-made comps, each of these graphics is easily editable to the base level, and they can be a massive time saver when time is tight.
• Price: $199 Colorista has been around for years as a popular colour and grading tool for After Effects. With version IV creator Red Giant has taken things to a whole new level, turning it into a vital After Effects plugin for colourists at any skill level. A new Guided Color Correction toolset takes you through the steps required to get the most from your footage, as well as producing brilliant results in a couple of clicks. The process in use here means this plugin can teach vital colouring skills and form the basis of a great colouring workflow. • $89.99 per Adobe application One of the biggest issues many motion graphics artists face is how to encode footage to the right format. The problem has been worsened by a couple of factors: the number of artists switching to Windows, and Adobe’s discontinued QuickTime support leading to patchy support for popular codecs such as Apple’s ProRes.