After Effects Guru: Plugins You Should Know

Discover options in After Effects and third-party plugins you can use to improve your workflow and enhance your project.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Major Plugin Packages

• Before you buy: Understanding what's already in After Effects
• Working with BCC 10: Boris Continuum Complete
• Exploring BCC transitions
• Integrating mocha tracking in BCC 10
• Red Giant Effects Suite
• Red Giant Universe
• Red Giant Trapcode Suite
• GenArts Sapphire
• GenArts Sapphire S_Effect and S_Transition

2. Options for Particle Simulations

• A look at After Effects built-in particle effects
• Exploring Trapcode Particular
• Exploring Trapcode Form
• BCC 10 particles
• An overview of Plexus 2
• Pastiche
• Nodes 2

3. Beauty Enhancement

• Enhancing beauty with After Effects built-in effects
• Digital Anarchy Beauty Box
• BCC 10 Beauty
• Sapphire S_Beauty

4. Options for 3D

• A look at options for built-in 3D and CINEMA 4D Lite
• Working with Element 3D, part 1
• Working with Element 3D, part 2
• A look at FreeForm Pro
• ShapeShifter AE
• BCC Title Studio
• Zaxwerks Invigorator PRO

5. Simplifying Complex Keyframes, Expressions, and Physical Simulations

• Working with complex keyframe animations
• Working with expressions
• Ease and Wizz
• iExpressions
• Motion 2
• Newton 2
• Animation Composer
• TypeMonkey and LayerMonkey

6. Lens Flares

• After Effects built-in lens flare
• BCC Lens Flares
• Sapphire S_Lensflares
• Optical Flares
• mFlare
• Knoll Light Factory

Conclusion

• Next steps