June 10, 2009

Normality 3: free AE filter adds 32-bit & Mac support

Today Stefan Minning announced version 3 of his free Normality plug-in for After Effects, which now also features toon shading and support for 32-bit per channel & OS X. Normality uses 3D normal passes to adjust various lighting properties like diffuse and specular lighting, toon shading, reflections and refractions, and more in real-time directly in AE.
From the outside it's not quite clear how much is included from his other old AE filters Celulight and Floodgate. There's a similar free filter from Frischluft.com, NormaliZe (note: see Comments for some clarification).
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3 comments:

  1. Stefan Minning6/10/2009 03:07:00 PM

    Celulight and Floodgate are entirely separate plug-ins their functionality is not included in this release of Normality.

    Cheers,
    Stefan

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  2. Stefan Minning6/10/2009 03:21:00 PM

    Frischluft's NormaliZe plug-in isn't similar to Normality at all - it serves a totally differnt purpose.

    ZBorntoy does work like Normality in some ways but is not free and doesn't use AE's internal lights.

    Just thought I'd clear that up...

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  3. Rich6/10/2009 03:42:00 PM

    Oh, sorry. It seemed like the toon shading may have come from Celulight.

    And yes the older (& not free) Zborn Toy does seem more comparable:
    http://www.taronites.com

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