Here’s an in-depth tutorial that goes over the new features in Version 1.5 of FreeForm Pro and ShapeShifter AE. Kevin Schires, who worked on the programming at mettle as part of the engineering team, has put the tut together for …
Check out this 3D AquaMan logo, made entirely in After Effects with ShapeShifter AE. Complete integration into the After Effects UI lets you stay in the familiar interface of AE, and use simple tools and effects to create complex …
“Don’t worry, when it all dries up and all is seemingly lost. When you can’t sleep for that one transition. When you find yourself gently thumping your head on the wall wondering if there is a way out… Keep going… …
Tim Harris shows how to use the new fog and mist features in FreeForm Pro Version 1.5. He starts things off by creating 3D terrain with FreeForm Pro. He makes a 2D Displacement Map that will be used to create …
The update for ShapeShifter and FreeForm Pro Version 1.5 will include some great new features! Coming soon are additional Environment features: 3D mist and fog. There will be Displacement Map Channels, Displacement Map Noise, Additional Reflection Mapping Controls and Animateable …
After Effects power-user Tudor “Ted” Jelescu has done it again. Created a fantastic After Effects sequence using one of our plug-ins. Ted has been using our plug-ins for years to achieve results in AE that were only available in dedicated …
Jason Moll had some fun with his company logo, trying out different 3D variations using ShapeShifter Ae in After Effects. He created a video to showcase them and shared it with us. “Hi, I’m a motion graphics artist and partner …
UDA produced this animation for one of their jewelery clients. They chose to use After Effects with the FreeForm Pro plug-in. It’s a great example of the Generator feature, which produced all the replications and movement. FreeForm Pro has a …
Sometimes our customers say it best: “With ShapeShifter I can save lots of time and do everything I want directly in Ae. Just simple 2D animation stuff that everyone knows how to do and ShapeShifter will do the rest for …
Introducing mettle product bundles! You can save up to 30% from your total purchase cost on our popular plug-ins FreeForm Pro, ShapeShifter Ae, the Mylenium Edition Project Files, as well as the Aqua Pack project files.. The more you buy, …
Dan Gies has put together a great tutorial series, which is being hosted on aetuts+. The series explains step-by-step how to animate his Rocket-Dees bird character in After Effects. Dan uses FreeForm Pro, Trapcode Particular, Expressions, and the After Effects …
Andrew Embury has created a terrific animation for American Express using FreeForm V2. The terrain distortion is done using FreeForm V2, which can easily transform a flat layer into a 3D grid with control points; perfect for terrain. Each control …
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Design Challenge. We wanted a truly impartial vote, based on popular opinion, so the winners were selected by popular vote on aetuts+. Thanks to all who participated! We had a great …
We’ve received all the submissions from our Man of Steel & Style – Superman 3D Logo Design Challenge. The judges have gone through the submissions, and have chosen the top 6 finalists. Now it’s up to you to decide which …
The Superman Design Challenge is wrapping up, and we’ve got some great entries from all over the globe! From Singapore, Germany, England, the US and Canada, to name a few. The Superman logo is one of the most recognized logos …
Mathias Möhl of mamoworld has put together a great After Effects tutorial. It’s a familiar scene: a camera doing an aerial fly-through of New York City. But something’s different… we see a rotating Superman logo on top of a skyscraper. …
Our Superman 3D Logo Design Challenge is well under way! We have already received quite a few great submissions. For more info on the Challenge, see the previous post. We’ve set up a Vimeo Channel for submissions. Here are …
We are pleased to announce a design challenge for the After Effects community. Redesign the Superman logo using ShapeShifter AE in After Effects. We have project files available to get you started. You can work in CS5 or CS6.
We …
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 …
ShapeShifter AE and FreeForm Pro have been available for Windows for quite some time. Now they are also available for Mac.
Technical specs:
Mac: NVIDIA equipped Macs with 1 GB of VRAM or higher.
PC: NVIDIA and ATI/AMD systems with …
Lady’s turn! Here it is: the female version of Evolution of Style. You may recognize this as part of an ad series done for Garnier. We did an earlier blog posting for Evolution of Style, which showcases the men’s hair …
Mettle is in the process of redoing the brand identity for musa machina. This still is part of an ad series that showcases the new logo design. Musa machina is a sound design studio that Mettle often collaborates with. They …
C-Valley, our retailer in Japan, commissioned Ran Ben Avraham to do a series of tutorials for FreeForm Pro. They offer an in-depth look at FreeForm Pro, and all of its great features. We would like to take this opportunity to …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Eran Stern has a great new After Effects tutorial posted on his site. It shows how to create a teaser for a reality show. It’s created with stock footage from artbeats.com. It incorporates plug ins from Mettle, GenArts and Red …
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 …
Great news! A much faster (up to 8x) version of FreeForm is now available! FreeForm V2 is available for CS5 and CS6. Even better, all projects created with the version of FreeForm that came bundled with CS5 can be opened …
This sequence was created entirely in After Effects, by Morgan Préleur at noside.fr, using the FreeForm Pro plug-in. Here at mettle, we are often asked how FreeForm Pro was used in this sequence. Morgan explains:
Re:Flex was used for the …