Getting ready for business

The plug-ins I spoke of earlier seem to have struck a chord with After Effects community. Due to the massive amount of feedback I received, I decided to set up a small business in order to start selling the plug-ins.

The first release will be the most simple (but at the same time probably the most useful) of the lot: It let’s you light your 3D objects directly in AE – in real-time, no less! Gone are the days of waiting for the 3D renderer just to see that the changes you made didn’t turn out quite as you had expected.

Further upcoming plug-ins include effects for
- Specular hilights
- Reflections
- Refractions
- Toon/cel shading
- Image based illumination
- Bump/normalmapping
- Texturing
- Spherical environments
- … and a few more surprises!

The new website will be announced right here once it’s done. Expect the trial versions to appear shortly after…