#Red giant trapcode suite 12 update#
This update to a suite of much loved plug-ins shows that Trapcode can continue to innovate, but there are a couple of negatives that I must mention: the price may alienate beginners or enthusiasts. Red Giant Trapcode Suite 13 – Tao Conclusion We’ve spent hours playing with all the controls to create unique looks and movement that we are simply loving. The lighting, texturing, reflectance and shadowing provide a high level of realism without sacrificing quick render times. These shapes work in concert with the After Effects 3D camera and lights to create amazing motion graphics that, up to this point, have not been available to AE users. Looping your animation is easily done using Tao’s offset and looping system.With this plug-in, you can create an unlimited variety of geometric shapes, extrusions and spheres, all animatable along a custom path. Other customizable parameters include tapering, wireframe rendering and fractal distortions - all GPU accelerated. Tao creations can include photo-real texturing, image-based lighting and environment map reflections based on the included 14 HDRI maps or your own images.
You can animate every parameter including length, shape offsets, repetitions and much more. With GPU acceleration, your images can include incredible shadowing, reflectance, and even lighting based on an image of your choosing. Think of it as a shape repeater and extruder. Tao creates procedural images and animations based on shapes, masks and position data of 3D lights. These stills and videos teased the release of a whole new type of effect, and based on what we we saw, we could not wait to jump into using this amazing new product. TRAPCODE TAO 1.0īefore Tao came out, it’s creator, Peter Norrby, tweeted previews of his new plug-in on Twitter over the span of a few months. We’re still not sure how we can use this in most of our projects, but we do know that when creating Mir, Trapcode developed a system that became the basis for their newest product, Tao. Your GPU is used to accelerate much of the rendering and users have control over the rendering mode, allowing you to create the low-poly look that’s popular today. There’s also new options for wireframe rendering and seamless looping. This new update adds some new fractal shapes and distortions like spirals. Mir allows you to create 3D surfaces and terrains using procedural fractals. When Mir was introduced a few years ago, we found it interesting but wasn’t really sure how it would fit into our needs as motion graphic designers. Red Giant Trapcode Suite 13 – Shine TRAPCODE MIR 2.0 Users can tweak the noise to provide a parallax effect to provide even more depth. Trapcode also added fractal noise to give light rays that realistic smokey look.
Light rays generated from your layer can now exist in 3D space, respecting the angle and position of the camera, making this a true 3D volumetric lighting effect.
Now, with this new 2.0 release, Trapcode has added some really useful and modern features that bring new life to this effect. Unfortunately, the Shine effect hadn’t been updated for a very long time. When this plug-in was introduced many years ago, users finally had access to volumetric lighting effects that only the highest end graphics houses used, at a price even the hobbyists could afford. This feature is truly one of the highlights of this update. Particular has been a staple for After Effects users for years and the interface was always quite hard to grasp, but with this new effects builder, users can easily tweak one of the many presets or create their own custom particle effect quickly and simply. There’s also presets for more abstract effects like magic and light. Particular has been a staple for After Effects users for years and the interface was always quite hard to grasp, but with this new effects builder, users can easily tweak one of the many presets or create their own custom particle effect quickly and simply.Īs before, users can create effects based on fire, smoke, fireworks, explosions, dust, muzzle flashes and many other real-world particles. You can easily create custom particles based on your own images and you’ll see a real-time visual representation while you are building your custom particle effect. You are presented with a wide variety of behaviors and styles for emitters, particles, physics and auxiliary particles. The new effects builder allows you to build custom effects based on visual building blocks. A huge new feature is a big step in improving the user experience. This update includes some new features including 130 new presets, a sprites library, a very cool explode behavior and an expansion in the number of particles to 30 million.
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