Mettle and The Montreal Canadiens

Mettle and The Montreal Canadiens

At Mettle we develop software plug-ins based on what we would like to use ourselves as motion graphics artists. So our plug-in ideas are often drawn from our real-world experience working on projects, such as this one for The Montreal …

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Mettle Interviews VinhSon Nguyen, CreativeDojo

Mettle Interviews VinhSon Nguyen, CreativeDojo

You may already be familiar with VinhSon Nguyen. He has his own tutorial website called creativedojo.net, and his tutorials have been shown on many sites, including our own. We thought it would be fun to find out more about the …

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Jean Piché Creates “FreeBirds” Using FreeForm Pro

Jean Piché Creates “FreeBirds” Using FreeForm Pro

World-reknowned video artist Jean Piché likes the creative freedom he gets from creating in After Effects. His latest sequence, FreeBirds, was made with Mettle’s FreeForm Pro.
“Freefrom Pro was an unexpected treasure trove. The ability to manipulate arbitrary forms and …

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Sexy Radio Likes Experimettle

Sexy Radio Likes Experimettle

We really like a site called Sexy Radio, and the feeling seems to be mutual! Sexy Radio is a music and lifestyle site based in Paris. We’d like to thank them for posting some of our Experimettle work. Merci mille …

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Captain Numerica on Red Giant TV

Captain Numerica on Red Giant TV

Harry Frank of Red Giant TV presents Part 2 of the the Captain Numerica tutorial set. Eran Stern presented Part 1, which explained how to create the animated Captain America 3D shield and text in After Effects, using mettle plug-ins …

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Ancient Journeys Blazing Fast / FreeForm V2

Ancient Journeys Blazing Fast / FreeForm V2

Effects artist Gary Bird, of Perth Australia created this sequence in After Effects, as part of a sting for a kids’ history program. He uses Mettle’s FreeForm V2 to add relief to the map and create the fluttering flag, amongst …

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Battleship Parody Part 2

Battleship Parody Part 2

It floats! It morphs from one robot-eyeball shape to another…the Hypno-Precompulator is back and helps to keep the world safe for After Effects users everywhere. Yes, the floating robot eyeball that makes an appearance in this parody is made in …

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Free Project Files | After Effects | ShapeShifter

Free Project Files | After Effects | ShapeShifter

You’ll find lots of variety in “Bevels and Styles”, a set of free After Effects Project Files. Includes 14 different Bevels, 11 different Styles, and 1 animated Bevel. Chris Bobotis (Partner/Developer at mettle) has put together this handy set. Requires …

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Captain America in After Effects

Mettle’s 3D Plug-ins ShapeShifter and FreeForm Pro are used to create this awesome animation entirely in After Effects, no outside 3D work! Captain America’s shield and the background terrain, and 3D text were all created, rendered and animated in Ae. …

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Welcome to the Mettle Blog

Welcome to our blog! We’ll be posting news, tutorials and customer profiles to keep you up to date with the latest. We develop amazing plug-ins for Adobe After Effects, so go ahead, download a demo of each of our plug-ins: …

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