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Get Inspired with our Free Project Files

Get Inspired with our Free Project Files

What’s better than a free project file? We’re always adding new ones available for download on our website. So stay up to date and check us out. We create some of them ourselves, and some are created by users like …

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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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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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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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