zaxwerks 3d plugins bundle for after effects

Price: Zaxwerks 3D ProAnimator v8 Standalone OR AE: 499, or 199 upgrade Web: Many bundles are also available.

Capable Starting out, you can create your own 3D text, and its nice to see that little details like kerning controls (with their standard Option-leftright shortcut) havent been forgotten.

Similar to Illustrators Revolve effect, here its much faster and easier to useand of course its actually a 3D object in 3D space, not just a 2D picture of one.

Or creating something else While ProAnimator is not primarily a modelling tool, extensive controls over materials are provided, along with a great many preset materials, object style options and lighting rigs.

Preset-filled Indeed, the presets continue into other areas of the program.

Once youve got your objects looking good, you can delve into the preset Object Animations or Camera Animations.

As there are so many presets, you can explore in a fun way by pressing TRY repeatedly, to cycle through the presets randomly.

Preset animations ahoy Stop when you find one you like, then tweak the poses and transitions between them in the settings below.

These transitions are a lot like Motions behaviors, and as such will automatically adapt to changes such as fixing a typo in the underlying text.

For example, the Object Drawing tools are as capable as Illustrators equivalents, and Ive been pleasantly surprised to find that most of the shortcuts work in the same way.

The sheer number of presets should be more than enough to get you started, and everything is customisable.

The interface offers a selection of Workspaces at the bottom of the window which help to manage the complexity, or if you want it all, just show everything at once.

Quirky One or two crashes were unwelcome but manageable, as was a phantom model that appeared in my 3D Preview once but disappeared after restarting the app.

Oddly, on making a new file, I was always warned of a missing image: it seems that one of the default swatches didnt install properly.

These are relatively minor issues, though, and can be worked around.

Like many other cross-platform apps, it doesnt quite feel Mac-like, with some icons and buttons (even the spinning beachball) feeling a little alien, but its better in this regard than many other cross-platform appsdont get me started on Blender.

Professional Many important features are included, including a fast ray tracer and real-time GPU rendering, depth-of-field support, variable anti-aliasing, ambient occlusion, interlaced rendering, motion blur, and more.

I wish it supported direct export to ProRes 4444 or the new ProRes 4444 XQ, but Uncompressed works fine.

Conclusion 3D ProAnimator is an impressive piece of kit, going beyond what many other packages offer.

While the focus is on motion graphics rather than general purpose 3D animation, that can be a real help; 3D animation and modelling can be a daunting task.

While other apps have their own strengths around integration with FCP X andor Motion, 3D ProAnimators depth and breadth of features means it can stand on its own.

Recommended for anyone who needs high quality 3D motion graphics in a hurry, and is happy to work with AE or a standalone app.

Zaxwerks 3D Plugins Bundle For After Effects