🆕 in After Effects beta today: some nice text extrusion improvements. If you've tried mixing variable font animation and 3D extrusion, you're going to get much better results now. Should fix many long-standing extrusion issues with non-variable fonts as well. community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

But wait, there's more! Very useful additions to expressions and scripting: community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff... Overhauled Preferences: community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff... And a long-requested Crop Comp to Layer Bounds command.

🆕 Something big is coming to After Effects beta today: Variable Font Animation! community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

🆕 After Effects 25.6 is live! It's primarily a quality release (60 fixes!) but also includes one of my favorite new features: the return of Tip of the Day, with helpful suggestions from AE experts around the world. Collecting these has been an absolute joy. helpx.adobe.com/after-effect...

Today in "extremely silly things you can make in After Effects" thanks to the new beta: bagel fountain

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.

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

🆕 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

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

Who are your favorite After Effects tutorial makers?

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

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...

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

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. aresluna.org/the-hardest-... (via @ferociousj.bsky.social)

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

🆕 in beta: After Effects running natively on Windows ARM: community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

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

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...

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

🆕 Super excited about a feature that just went live in After Effects beta: Quick Offset. Stagger and retime layers and keyframes just by dragging! community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

Two new additions to After Effects beta: Alt/opt-drag to duplicate layers: community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff... Info buttons in the Effects & Presets panel: community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

🆕 in After Effects beta today: support for Windows on ARM emulation. community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

Who's had a chance to play with the new 3D shadows in After Effects beta? What do you think so far?

It’s post-Eurovision recovery day. Why do I feel like I just did a bunch of sports or something? And how do I find a hobby for the next ten months?

Come on, Peacock. The best you can do for captions on your Eurovision stream is "SINGING IN A GLOBAL LANGUAGE"?

If you're looking to make your own version of the Eurovision heart-shaped halftone effect in After Effects, Card Dance or Particle Playground are the way to go. The former renders faster, the latter is quicker to set up. Both can give you some really fun results! (This clip is Card Dance.)

I can hear frogs outside my window! 🐸

One of the more specific prohibition signs I've ever seen.

The time our local Ethiopian restaurant messed up our order and instead delivered the best thing I've eaten in Seattle. I have no idea what it was and it's not on their regular menu.

🆕 in After Effects beta: Spot and Parallel light shadows in Advanced 3D! They're fast to render and fun to play with, especially mixed with shadow color. You can do everything from super-stylized sharp shadows to realistic multi-light scenes. More details: community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

🆕 After Effects 25.2.2 is now live, adding a couple key fixes to 25.2's big list of updates, plus a bonus feature: paste text and match formatting!

Everyone needs to see this cat. www.petfinder.com/cat/queso-75...

One of my favorite features of AE 3D is the "Shadow Color" option. Choosing a dark color from the scene you're compositing into can make a huge difference in how realistic your shadows look. Real-world shadows are rarely true black! Here's a photo I took last night that's an extreme example:

After Effects 25.2 is live! This is a big one: High Performance Preview Playback HDR Preview Animated Environment Lights 3D Quick Actions FBX Import Enhanced Null Workflows Keep your workspace when opening a project Customize your comp viewer colors and more! helpx.adobe.com/after-effect...

🆕 Great little addition to After Effects Beta today: you can finally reveal your project file location in your file system from the Project panel! community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

Talked about MOGRTs in a meeting earlier. Things MS Teams' auto transcription called them: Motors Movers Mogarts (close!!) Moguls Margaret Mode grid Mergers

Nice easy 3D lighting effect in AE: make an RGB spot light rig! Position 100% red, green and blue lights side by side so they mostly-but-not-fully overlap to form a white spot light. Creates a chromatic aberration-like feel that really adds character vs a plain white spot.

Love having my phone decide a great time to upgrade the OS is while I’m in line to get on the plane with my boarding pass open.

Lately I've been experimenting with toon shading effects for 3D models in After Effects. All of these styles start with the Cartoon effect with different things stacked on top.

Do you ever get a song stuck in your head, but like really loud? Because that's Bara Bada Bastu for me right now. I'm in meetings and my brain is going "saunaaaa". www.youtube.com/watch?v=28__...

Looks like it’s time to replace our router. Please suggest good punny WiFi network names for its replacement.

🆕 A little Friday afternoon treat for you in After Effects Beta: you can now paste text and match formatting! community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

🆕 in After Effects Beta today: 🔎 Smooth Zoom 🔍 More info: community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

🆕 Three super-helpful 3D quick actions, new in After Effects Beta! 🌈 Apply 2D effects to 3D layers with Create 3D Layer Instance 💡 Position lights with camera tools via Control Light with Camera 🌐 Visualize Env. light sources with Create 3D Environment Layer community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

Here's a good example of when you might want to mess with 3D compositing options in After Effects. The text in the middle is a 3D precomp with accepts lights/shadows turned off so it's not affected by the scene lighting.

🆕 Now in After Effects Beta: Import/export support of CICP metadata for improved color interchange. This is another important step in improving our HDR pipeline. More info here: community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

* * This Flavor Only * * Love our new grocery store but I think they're still working a few things out with the labeling system.

🤯 New feature in #aftereffects just dropped, and Michael is almost too excited! You can now tie your effects' positional control points to null layers with a click - no need to write complex expressions. And you can even make the controlling nulls 3D and parent them to other layers. More tips in 🧵

New in After Effects Beta: 💡Animated Environment Lights.💡 Makes it super quick and easy to light a 3D scene with surrounding footage (even non-360 stuff works well) -- or with totally synthetic sources like animated gradients! community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

Another great After Effects Beta update -- and something I've personally wanted for years! -- you can now choose to keep your existing workspace when opening projects. (Does this mean the perpetual fight over where the eyeball icon goes is over?) community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...