Create 3D Organic text and logo animations, all in After Effects. Use familiar AE features and take them to the next level, quickly and easily, with ShapeShifter AE.
Title sequence for Praschan Requiem, by SOnia Rechaux. Mettle’s 3D plug-in ShapeShifter AE creates all the animated 3D shapes that wind in and out of the sequence.
An interpretation of the latest Superman logo, using Mettle’s ShapeShifter 3D plugin for After Effects, with Kevin Shires’ Elementary for shadows and reflections.
“I find that After Effects has pretty much everything you need to design, model and animate in both 2D + 3D with the help of plug-ins like Shapeshifter AE. One of the main reasons I created ShapeShifter AE is to allow designers and artists to make complex 3D models, like this one, very easily using your existing 2D skills along with the AE 2D filters and effects, in a new way.”
– Chris Bobotis, founder of mettle.com
Created entirely in Adobe After Effects using mettle’s 3D plug-in ShapeShifter AE. Sound Design by Andrea Damiano.
Nancy at mettle gives a quick rundown on how to create The Expandables 2 film title sequence, using CS6 Master Collection (After Effects + PhotoShop) and mettle’s ShapeShifter AE plug-in.
As often happens, the turn-around time and budget were limited for this production. What to do? The model and band were shot on Greenscreen. All terrain and sky created and animated in After Effects with ShapeShifter AE and FreeForm Pro. A big shout-out to Tim Harris for a job well done.
Created entirely In After Effects with our 3D Plug-ins: FreeForm, FreeForm V2 & ShapeShifter AE.
Just a few examples of the great work done by some of our customers. Thanks everyone 🙂
Artists: Andrew Embury, Chris Bobotis, Chris Lavelle, Daniel Gies, Andy Halloway, Jerzy Drozda Jr., Gareth Jones, Morgan Preleur, Sonia Rechaux, Tim Harris, Tudor ˘Ted˘ Jelescu.
ShapeShifter AE features include:
GENERATE AND ANIMATE TRUE 3D text in the comp window.
EASY 3D DEFORMATIONS – Bend, Bulge & Twist controls.
3D DISPLACEMENT MAPPING: Use a grayscale image to deform your layer in 3D space.
THE GENERATOR: Replicate your 3D object multiple times on a single layer. Control and animate the replications with one set of controls.
FRESNEL: Add the fresnel lens phenomenon to your work. Create additional 3D materials, like water and glass.
DISPLACEMENT MAP CHANNELS: Isolate different regions on your 3D model, and give them different reflections and finishes.
DISPLACEMENT MAP NOISE: Easier to create natural-looking organic surfaces and animations using mathematical algorithms instead of additional geometry. A great complement to displacement maps.
ANIMATEABLE SUBDIVISIONS: Control the amount of geometry in your 3D model. Add more geometry for extreme close-ups in your animation, and diminish the geometry for long-shots of the same model.
ENVIRONMENT SECTION: Create natural phenomena like fog and mist with no additional rendering time.
3D BLENDING MODES: True 3D blending (transfer) modes built-in at many levels.
INTUITIVE INTERFACE CONTROLS that feel built into After Effects.
USE EXPRESSIONS AND TRACKERS on control points.
GENERATE DEPTH MAPS that work with other applications and plug-ins.
SHADOW CASTING
HIGH SPEED RENDERING
REFLECTION MAPPING: Spherical and Cubic
WORK ON After Effects Shape Layers + Layer Masks
FRESNEL: Add the fresnel lens phenomenon to your work. Create additional 3D materials, like water and glass.
DISPLACEMENT MAP CHANNELS: Isolate different regions on your 3D model, and give them different reflections and finishes.
DISPLACEMENT MAP NOISE: Easier to create natural-looking organic surfaces and animations using mathematical algorithms instead of additional geometry. Is a great complement to displacement maps.
ADDITIONAL REFLECTION MAPPING CONTROLS: More built in features for much more control over reflections.
ANIMATEABLE SUBDIVISIONS: Control the amount of geometry in your 3D model. Add more geometry for extreme close-ups in your animation, and diminish the geometry for long-shots of the same model.
NEW ENVIRONMENT SECTION: Create natural phenomena like fog and mist with no additional rendering time.
3D BLENDING MODES: True 3D blending (transfer) modes built-in at many levels.