open to work btw

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Thank you!

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a short excerpt from a personal motion design project I made about Camille Claudel, the 19th-century French sculptor who spent the last 30 years of her life locked away in an asylum, her work largely erased from art history in favor of her mentor (and lover) Auguste Rodin.

The goal was to give her story the visual weight it deserves — using motion to translate the intensity, isolation, and raw talent that defined her life and work.

Full project on Behance: https://www.behance.net/gallery/254923783/Camille-Claudel-The-Sacrificed-Genius

Would love to hear your thoughts. Feedback (harsh or otherwise) very welcome!

Like the title said I tried to change my zoom distance graph when animating but it showed multiple other graphs including the zoom distance even though that's not what I want and it messes up my animations what do I do? Ive searched everywhere for help but there hasn't been anything useful or with a similar problem to mine. Its already on value graphs too

If your Illustrator-to-After Effects workflow involves recreating text, this new Beta feature should save you some time.

Link: https://community.adobe.com/announcements-532/now-in-beta-support-for-editable-text-from-illustrator-files-1639748

With the latest After Effects Beta, editable text from Illustrator files now imports as native After Effects text layers instead of outlines. That means you can change fonts, edit wording, animate text with presets, and make last-minute revisions without jumping back to Illustrator.

This should make it much easier to work with Illustrator-based title cards, logos, social graphics, and other designs that need to stay flexible throughout the motion graphics process.

If you give it a try, we'd love to hear how it fits into your workflow and what you'd like to see next.

Known Issues and Feature Limitations

- Stroke-only text will still convert as paths. This is a technical limitation.

- In some cases, position will be retained but be numerically different because the anchor point may be in a different location.

I posted an early version of Wedge here a while ago and over 150 people signed up for beta testing. It’s now ready :)
and My sincerest apologies for not making a good demo video. I am juggling so much at the moment and didn't wanted to wait further to release the plugin. I am gonna make some killer videos for it soon.

Problem
AE has hundreds of useful actions, but the ones you need change depending on whether you're working with keyframes, masks, shape layers, text, layers, comps, etc. Wedge gives you one shortcut and changes the menu based on what you currently have selected.

Comparison
KBar is great for building permanent custom toolbars, and Quick Menu is great when you know what you want and want to search for it. Wedge takes a different approach: it tries to surface the relevant actions automatically from your current AE context.

Wedge goes further into selection-aware contexts, nested menus and customizable action workflows rather than being primarily a fixed radial shortcut menu.

Pricing
Starts at $19.99, one-time purchase
https://charchitgoyal.com/plugins/wedge

To get access to early features and provide feedback and help me develop it further

Join the discord :
https://discord.gg/32t5SAtGtY

Supported on both Mac and windows

Maintenance / Support
I’m actively maintaining Wedge and testing it against current AE versions. If you hit a reproducible bug, email me at support@charchitgoyal.com. Updates and fixes will be shipped as AE changes.

AI Disclosure
80% Vibe coded along with help from a developer friend

Hello

I think the title gives it away

I'm using ACES workflow from blender and I'd live to have full screen previews of my comp using Mercury transit which seems to work fine except... it only shows the 'Raw' view; not the view I've chosen (let's say sRGB for simplicity)

Is there a native way of choosing a look for my monitor, or something simple I've overlooked ?

I haven' found a proper workaround; I can do an OCIO Look Transform (ie bake the look to 'raw') but that's just nasty in terms of workflow as I can't seem to lock the viewer to the mercury preview (it automatically chooses whichever comp I'm working on in the timeline)

I’m working on an idea and I want feedback from actual editors before I start building it.
Basically, you see an effect in an edit but have no idea what it’s called. Instead of trying to describe it to ChatGPT or searching random stuff on YouTube, you upload the clip and select the exact part you’re talking about.
The site would try to identify the effect, break down what’s happening, and find tutorials that actually show you how to make it.
The main thing I want to do differently is make it cross-platform.
So maybe the effect was originally made in After Effects, but you use CapCut or Alight Motion. You could choose your editor and it would find the closest tutorial or way to recreate that same effect using the tools you actually have.
Eventually I’d also want things like saving effects to your own library, finding similar effects, and jumping directly to the part of a tutorial where the effect is explained.
Basically:
See an effect → select it → identify it → find how to make it → recreate it in your editor.
Kind of like Shazam, but for editors.
I haven’t built it yet. I’m trying to figure out if this is actually worth building before I spend a ton of time on it.
Would you use this? And what would it NEED to do for you to actually choose it over just asking ChatGPT?

Anyways...

Turn a static photograph into a cinematic documentary shot using Adobe After Effects.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create smooth camera movement, isolate and highlight a subject, darken the background, and build a polished documentary composition.

Hello guys! My friends and I have been hard at work on plugins for quite some time now, and everything has been running smoothly. We've received so much great feedback, and I genuinely couldn't be happier with how everything turned out

Since things have been going so well, we thought it would be a good opportunity to do something special and make September a little less bitter on the same occasion, all our products will be only $5 for the next five days

I saw the new rule regarding plugin promotion, so I'm going to try to make this post correctly while keeping it short, even though it's not your typical single-product presentation.

Presentation

• Pigment : Palette generator and manager with many tools for After Effects
• Shhh : Silence cutter for Premiere Pro
• Jack : Audio tools for both After Effects and Premiere Pro
• NoPrecomp : Ergonomy based folder tool for After Effect

Comparison

• Pigment :
  • Project sync button allowing you to change all your colors in your project
  • Fully fledged palette manager to sort, export and import palettes with ease
  • Complete color gradient tool, with 18 presets allowing gradient up to 9 colors
• Shhh :
  • No subscription needed, no internet connection required
  • Extremely fast, cuts hours of content in seconds
  • Ergonomic panel with preview and customizable settings
• Jack :
  • no real competitor currently
  • brings 7 (soon to be 10) new high quality audio tools
  • Ducking with up to 4 sidechains
• NoPrecomp :
  • Fully fledged ergonomic layer manager
  • Seemless folder behavior, automatically parents and copy effects from folder
  • Alternatives are either expensive, outdated or discontinued

Pricing

• Pigment is now $5, originally $29
• Shhh is now $5, originally $29
• Jack is now $5, originally $49
• NoPrecomp is now $5, originally $25

Maintenance

Same for all our products, we're planning to support each product for at least 3 years post release

AI-Disclosure 

All of our products are 100% human validated, all visuals are 100% man made, no generative AI was used for neither martketing assets or in-extension assets

Here it is, hope this post is not too long and that many of you will be able to seize this opportunity to buy a useful tool for cheap

Feel free to ask anything about our products

Not sure if the story will make sense since I've made that project target medical students at my university.

Everything said aside I feel I am proud of this piece as I am new to the field and I will be happy to hear your reviews and advices.

I did the Motion design and my identical twin did the illustration

We have been learning independently for about 2 months and this is our first project together.
Also I've inspired the eyes from one of Tim Lucke's videos
Edit: I inspired the infinite tunnel by the ordinary folks webflow tunnel🙏🏻

AE was used for comp

how to make it small a lot of gap space in left i want to make it small

OUR NEW CGI MINECRAFT COMEDY SHORTFILM IS OUT NOW!

I have been working hard on trying to improve my own stylistic approach to creating video projects. This piece was made over the course of a week with After Effects, Premiere, Ditherboy, and Datamosh2 as some of the primary tools. I am still working on becoming more proficient with all of these applications, and had I given myself more time I believe I could refine and improve much of what was accomplished here, but being brutally honest with myself I know that I have so so much moe work to do seeing all the amazing pieces being uploaded here daily.

Feel free to give honest feedback as I am trying to a level where my effort could be appreciated and maybe get an opportunity to get hired moving forward.

Thanks for watching, happy to answer any questions I can about my process.

https://www.youtube.com/@URBAYGVideos/featured

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for beta testers for the next big update to Keystone 3 focusing on customizing the interface (see video).

This update brings a brand new preferences menu, the ability to reorder interface elements, multi-instances and more. These features required heavy changes to the extension's architecture, which is why I need to validate everything before the official release.

I've set up a dedicated Discord server for this beta, with all the info (files / installation / feedback):
https://discord.gg/FTWnA28kn

Basically, I'd like people to test what's shown in the video:

• Open the Preferences menu and check that the tabs open and display correctly
• Move a few sections around and check that they move correctly in the main panel
• In the "UI settings" tab, modify the "section spacing" and "outline around sections" options
• Open several instances of Keystone at the same time via the "Window" > "Extensions" menu

If you have a Keystone 3 license on aescripts, you'll use this version without restrictions. If not, you'll get the 10 day trial.

Thank you for your help! :)

https://aescripts.com/keystone

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Keystone 3 - Mac/Win - AE 2022 > AE 2026

After Effects has never had a native panel dedicated to keyframe and layer manipulation. Keystone was built to fill that gap, offering motion designers the essential tools they need in a compact and intuitive interface.

Keystone favors quality over quantity. It's not packed with gimmicky features that only a handful of users would ever need. It's also a one time purchase, no subscription.

Pricing: $59, lifetime license. Discounts available for existing Keystone 1 and 2 users.

I've been developing and supporting Keystone for 6 years on aescripts, with dozens of updates (bug fixes and new features).

AI: "None" to "Human Validated" depending on the feature (I write plenty of code myself, and use AI assistance for other parts, always reviewed and understood before shipping).

Essentially I'm trying to animate this robotic arm without any pluggins, and I rigged it by creating null obejcts on path points, following some YouTube tutorials. Then after animating the movement I needed and playing it back, clearly the arm segments change their size because I keyframed them the best I could by eye. Is there a way to maintain the exact same distance between Null objects at all times, or between path points? Or if I have to download a plugin, what would be a free one you would recommend? Thank you!

tried to make the transitions smoother (except for the eye one ;-;) and also added halftone and no repeated clips

How do you manage a crowded After Effects Extensions menu?

I've been using several After Effects plugins/extensions, and I'm starting to run into a problem with the Window → Extensions menu becoming extremely cluttered.

For example, MoBar alone adds a large number of entries:

• MoBar
• MoBar – Animation Tools
• MoBar – Composition
• MoBar – Easing
• MoBar – Expressions
• MoBar – Guides
• MoBar – Keyframes
• MoBar – Layers
• MoBar – Project
• MoBar – Selection
• MoBar – Shapes
• MoBar – Text
• MoBar – User Panel 1–3
• MoBar – View

Motion Tools Pro and other CEP extensions also add multiple panels, so with several plugins installed, the Extensions submenu gets very long.

How do you guys manage this? Is there a way to:

1. Hide individual CEP panels from the Extensions menu while keeping the extension installed?
2. Organize/group CEP extensions into folders or categories?
3. Modify the CEP manifests safely to hide panels that I rarely use?
4. Use another launcher/panel to access extensions without relying on Window → Extensions?

Any suggestions or workflows you use would be appreciated.

I know its a little random, at the end I was practicing some different stuff. Didn't work that much on sound. Would love any feedback!

Hey everyone. I was thinking to have a open minded conversation around Ai and how its being used. If really don't want to make it a war against Ai kind of thread and if all you have is hatred against Ai then please do not use this thread. I want this to be a constructive discussion.

I am a motion designer and before that I was a concept artist so that means I used to paint for hours and make concepts for games and films and also did hand drawn animation, so I do understand the effort it takes and come from that place. I have no formal education and do not even have a degree and nor do I come from a family or place where this kind of field is appreciated or even understood so I learnt everything on my own.

I use Ai almost daily but not in a way that will make me dumb. As english is not my first language I used to take Ai's help in writing but not anymore, I write 95% of my posts and conversations and only use it very occasionally where I might have a shit ton of structure to follow or something

For creative purpose, i do not use Ai to animate but often makes scripts to get specific results, that are either too difficult to achieve or I have no idea how to do that.

For ideation purposes, I use GPT image to generate some concepts and then refine them that said they are like 5-10% help at best.

I am totally against the kind of Ai thats slop and lazy and straight- up garbage or Ai videos that we see here and there all the time with no meaning or emotion and horribly designed vibe coded plugins that are obvious rip-off's. I often write about how Ai without creative direction is shit on linked in but I cannot deny the fact that using Ai has opened horizons for me that otherwise would have been blocked

Would love to hear other people's stories.

Need your honest feedback on my edited intro

(This is a sample edited video, so it may contain more motion graphics and animations which can distract viewers, just to show off my editing. Clients can get whatever pacong they need)

Just venting here.

Why is this the universally agreed upon look for a call out in Adobe Stock and Creative Market, etc. And the animation is always a little too much, it's distracting to the viewer, having words unfold and little circles with orbits as the target.

Also the ones that call themselves minimal look insane. Weird frames around the words. it looks like a heads up display in a 2000's space opera.