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Free script: Prepare Soft Bodies

Prepare Soft Bodies is a small companion script for Newton3 that prepares a shape layer (or multiple) for a soft body simulation in Newton.

How to… place a text along a path using ConnectLayersPRO

How to… place a text along a path when using our plugin ConnectLayersPRO in Adobe After Effects ?

Tutorial: Dynamically unravel a shape in After Effects using Newton 3

How to unravel a shape in Adobe After Effects using Newton 3 and ConnectLayersPRO

Creating a liquid animation in After Effects!

Create a liquid animation within After Effects by Jay Baulch

Pastiche 2 Tutorials

We have released Pastiche 2.
Here’s 4 tutorials to understand to new features!

How to Create 3D Shapes with Newton 3

Although Newton 3 is a 2D physics simulator and only accepts 2D shapes and text, there’s a small workaround to incorporate 3D shapes.

Color Wheel

Manipulating shapes and colors using expressions

10 Minute Crash Course: Newton 3

Lewis McGregor of PremiumBeat has create this 10 Minute tutorial for Newton 3.

Newton 3 reviewed by Rocketstock

Lewis McGregor of Rocketstock reviewed Newton 3

3D Projection

Creating and projecting a 3D cube onto a shape layer using expressions

Path Anatomy

Manipulating and visualizing path properties in Adobe After Effects using expression.

Trim Path Tricks

Attaching a layer to the end of a path using expression in Adobe After Effects.

A Newton mini tutorial by Joyce N. Ho

Joyce N. Ho reveal her technical process behind her animated poster for the San Francisco Design Week

Dealing with Illustrator files and shape layers in Newton

What are the best practices when using Adobe Illustrator files and shape layers in Newton.

Newton2 and macOS 10.5 Catalina fix

How to force macOS Catalina to launch Newton2

Tutorial: Textless effect

A tutorial to achieve the amazing effect where the content of a sign is falling drove by physics.

Tutorial: Fill-Mix-Flush using Newton3

A classic case of animation which uses physics intensely!

Tutorial: Create a Bouncing Emoji Smiley

Create a bouncing Emoji completely drove by physics!

Interview(s)!

Our friends from Motion Café invited us on their show to talk about our history, our products and do some demos.

Tutorial: Create a flock of birds

Create a flock of birds in order to form a final logo using Pastiche.

Animate a Snow Globe

Lear how to animate a snow globe in After Effects usgin Newton3, ConnectLayersPRO, Pastiche and DUiK!

Tutorial: Paper Drop

Learn how to use Newton3 and ConnectLayersPRO to create something similar to a piece of paper falling on the ground.

Catalina update

We are happy to announce you that our products are now fully compatible with MacOS Catalina 10.15

Tutorial: Creating Soft Body Dynamics with Newton inside After Effects

Step by step tutorial on how to create soft body dynamics with newton inside after effects.

2019 Summer Of Code

Our 2019 holiday homework has consisted of recreating some great Processing animations in Adobe After Effects.

Tutorial: Trimmed circle with arrowhead

Trim a circle with an arrowhead in front.

Tutorial : random to grid

Random to grid using Pastiche

Tutorial: Spinners & switch

How to quickly set up a simple simulation in Adobe After Effects, send it to Newton3, use fixed objects to only rotate switch and spinners & tweak your scene to have the best result.

Pastiche: The Running Man

By popular demand, here’s the Pastiche Running Man project.

PASTICHE

An After Effects plug-in to produce creative layer collages.

LayerGenerators

LayerGenerators is a collection of 3 tools for After Effects to automate the creation of layers.

Strandbeest for After Effects

James Hazael created a Strandbeest (amazing kinetic sculpture by Theo Jansen) using Newton2.

POLYLINE

Polyline creates colorful and fully controllable polygonal lines (this is nerd talk for straight lines) that can be animated in After Effects’ real 3D space

Supinfocom Arles becomes MOPA

Supincom Arles recently change its name. They asked us to design a short animation for this event.

Idents for “Les Numeriques”

lesnumeriques.com asked us to create 4 idents based on their icons for their Youtube channel.

Breakdown : Landor Chinese New Year Card 2014

Create soft bodies that react to a predefined animation using Newton2 and Connect Layers.

“Let’s be amazing” (Newton2) breakdown by Resolution Media

The guys from Resolution Media show us how they used Newton2 for After Effects to create an amazing Rube Goldberg machine.

Paravent

Fold and unfold layer painlessly!

TextBox

Easily add a perfect box on your text layer!

ASCII Generator

Transform the content of the text layers into ASCII art!!

Create Gear

Gears are great shapes that can be used in various situations, but they are even better when you can animate them…

Connect Layers

This script connects the selected layers with segments or triangles created with shape layers…

3D Options

This After Effects script displays a palette that allows you to quickly modify the Geometry…

Collage

This After Effects allows you to create photobook-style arrangements of selected layers…

Linking layers to Trapcode Particular easily

Using our CreateParticularLights script, you’ll be able to to create many lights at once that will work as emitters in Particular, Plexus…

Content Aware Fill

Quick experimentation attempting to use Photoshop’s Content Aware Fill feature on a video…

Timer

This After Effects script creates a simple animated timer HH:MM:SS, with controllable speed and start…

Images Wall

This After Effects script distributes the contents of the selected folder on a grid…

Cute Sphere

This After Effects script creates shape layers and distributes them around a sphere.

After Effects to CSS3

We have developed an experimental script that attempts to convert an After Effects composition into

Pan & Zoom

This script creates a pan and zoom slideshow (also known as the Ken Burns effect)…

Guilloché Mask

Let’s have fun with this After Effects script that is a port of subBlue’s Guilloché

Footage Name

This After Effects script creates a text layer with an expression that finds the name

3D in After Effects CS6

Here are test videos showing some of the new 3D capabilities of After Effects CS6