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Luscious Free VJ Loops: Swirled
Check out our fabulous “Swirled” Series of six VJ Loops, available for free download on Vimeo! You can find the links to all six loops at the bottom of this posting. They were created in After Effects with FreeForm Pro, …
Canary Bird Cage for Tedx
This animation from the Overit studio for a Tedx event puts a twist on a popular motion graphics trend. This past year we’ve often seen silhouettes used to frame footage, True Detective-style. In this case, the bird silhouette itself is …
音楽と映像のコラボレーション
This is a Japanese translation of the previous posting Aetherea: Continuance. This sequence is a collaboration between Namiko Mori (sound) and visuals (mettle). Namiko Mori is a Film Composer from Japan currently based in Los Angeles. Aetherea is a theme …
Aetherea | Continuance
A collaboration between Namiko Mori (sound) and visuals (mettle). Namiko Mori is a Film Composer from Japan currently based in Los Angeles. She was a recipient of the BMI/Jerry Goldsmith scholarship for UCLA Film Scoring in 2014. Our paths crossed …
Tabaat Al Mushahid – Title Sequence
This title sequence for the Saudi morning newspaper review show, Tabaat Al Mushahid, shows a really practical use of FreeForm. The newspaper sequence was shot with a Canon 5D, with some blank areas left on the newspapers. The text and …
Create a Liquid Metal Logo in Ae
Featured in the November issue of 3D Artist Magazine! Chris McFall leads us through this amazing tutorial on how to create a liquid mercury logo animation all within After Effects. He uses mettle’s FreeForm Pro plug-in to nail the effect. …
Batman v Superman Logo 360 | ShapeShifter Ae
At mettle we’re huge Batman and Superman fans. So here’s our take on the Batman V Superman logo, designed, rendered and animated in After Effects with ShapeShifter. It’s super-easy to create a logo in Ae with ShapeShifter, using familiar tools …
Aquaman | Atlantis Rising
Here’s another take on the Aquaman title sequence, put together by Chris at mettle. It’s a darker edgier version, heavily influenced by the great work of CG Artist Harry Martis. Created in After Effects with FreeForm Pro, Shapeshifter AE, Light …
Free Zombie Character by Devour Destroy
Happy Halloween! To celebrate we’re giving away a Zombie Pilot, courtesy of Josh Avira of Devour Destroy Boston. It’s in PhotoShop, with all the body parts separated on different layers, each with it’s own displacement map. It’s meant to be …
How to Make a 3D Aquaman Logo in After Effects | ShapeShifter
Design and model a complex, organic 3D logo in After Effects in minutes using Mettle’s ShapeShifter Ae. Use familiar 2D filters and techniques, no modelling experience necessary. Chris Bobotis (Partner/Developer at mettle) shows us how to build it using clever …
In Flight | FreeForm Pro
This fantasy landscape was created by Tudor “Ted” Jelescu using FreeForm Pro for landscape, river, environment effects etc. and for the flying creatures. He uses a combination of image based displacement mapping and displacement noise, as well as Mist and …
Stunning Visuals from Kinect to FreeForm Pro
CG Artist Harry Martis used an unusual production pipeline for Secret_Science, a music video for the Athens-based “drone’n’roll” band MECHANIMAL. His process started with a kinect 360 and ended up in After Effects with mettle’s FreeForm Pro plug-in. For his …
How To Dent a Garage Door VFX
In this tutorial, Effects artist Mike Sevigny shows us how to displace a plane in 3D space in Ae, making it look like a garage door is being deformed and dented. The process starts by using After Effects’ 3D camera …
Aquaman Title Sequence | After Effects
Aquaman Title sequence created and animated entirely in After Effects. Logo design and 3D modelling is the work of Chris Bobotis of Mettle. Chris explains,”It’s great to have the flexibility to work entirely in After Effects for a 3D title …
Beluga by Ji Inn Jung | FreeForm Pro
The journey of life seems bleak for a young boy, until a friend turns up in an unexpected place.
That’s the story behind Beluga, a graduation short film project by Ji Inn Jung, School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York. …
A Bit of Argy Bargy with Jamie Clennett
Who takes a year off to work on a stop-motion animated short that just happens to feature two old men hanging from meat hooks, casually having a conversation? Someone who feels strongly about expressing themselves creatively. That would be Tasmanian-born …
Create an Iris in After Effects by Ran Ben Avraham l FreeForm Pro
Ran Ben Avraham shows us how to create an extreme close-up of the human eye, inspired from the title sequence of the new Cosmos series. He shows us how to create something similar using After Effects and Mettle’s FreeFrom Pro, …