Adobe After Effects It is one of those softwares that any motion graphics designer should undoubtedly know because it may be one of the most versatile and versatile softwares on the market. The possibility of including accessories and increasing their features makes it very useful to face any type of compositions and projects.
Today I bring you a selection of 8 plugins for Adobe After Effects that you can get a lot of performance from (although you can complement this list with this article we did a few months ago):
private trapcode
This marvel will allow us to develop in our compositions all kinds of custom particles in Adobe After Effects from smoke to rain, clouds, dust, or light particles. Realism is total, both in behavior or appearance since it follows the precepts of physics and gravity. Using Trapcode Particular you can create all kinds of particles based on lines, shapes, patterns in three-dimensional spaces. As you will guess, it is not free but it does have a free download trial version.
Element 3D
It is very popular and was created by videocopilot to allow users to load and use 4D models in Adobe After Effects. It's great especially for those who are not especially gurus in modeling softwares like Maya or Cinema XNUMXD. This plugin will allow you to import and edit models in a tremendously fast way. The plugin works surprisingly fast considering the functionality it brings to the program. In addition, it has relatively recently undergone updates including a large number of additional features such as occlusion, the ability to edit and include ambient lighting through different presets.
Plexus
This fantastic tool will provide us with the ability to reduce all kinds of objects or elements in their most basic structures and in this way achieve a tremendously artistic, geometric and inspiring result. It works through .obj support so it allows us to seamlessly import models from most 3D graphics software. It offers us a wide variety of options and finishes highlighting the ability to create the popular interconnected point design of three-dimensional structures. All objects in Plexus also work with 3D cameras and depth of field. Its price is around 200 dollars although before you get hold of it, you can find a trial version.
Optical Flares
Including lighting effects in our scenes can provide a lot of interest to our scenes. Although there are a wide variety of plugins that act as generators of lens lighting effects, one of the most recommended and also famous is Optical Flares. In this way, users will be able to create personalized lens flares and always work in multidimensional environments. This plugin is designed to find the most realistic solution through the use of effects such as chromatic aberration. This complement already comes with a library and also offers a trial version although with a watermark.
Newtons 2
This plugin works in two-dimensional environments and allows users to apply real-world physics to 2D objects. Specifically Newton offers the possibility of applying gravity in various ways including options to regulate the scale of gravity, magnetism and properties of fixed rotation. In addition this plugin allows users to create realistic physics based platforms to simulate pivots, pistons, springs and articulate distance. It is a premium type plugin.
ContinuumComplete
This plugin is perhaps the Swiss Army Knife of Adobe After Effects. Within Continuum its users will find hundreds of effects covering a wide variety of purposes. From glitches to generators of all kinds, chroma key effect, lens flares and solutions and a long etcetera. Continuum offers a wide range of solutions for different types of projects. Of course, its price must be said that it is quite high, around a thousand dollars.
Twitch
Although it is quite old, it is surely one of the most useful plugins that can be purchased today. This plugin does exactly what its name suggests: It adds glitch effects to your footage and has several very cool options such as the ability to adjust scale, light, color, blur, and time. This plugin also has a variety of included sound effects and is priced at around $ 50.
duIK
This plugin is designed to help us animate our compositions in Adobe After Effects. If you are familiar with the world of animation you will know that there are certain procedures that require a lot of work and are very laborious. You will also know that performing inverse kinematics in After Effects is not possible and this is where this plugin comes in since thanks to it it is possible to create complex structures that simulate muscles or bones, for example. Best of all, this plugin is completely free.