February 21, 2011

Plexus: new plug-in for After Effects

Plexus, a 3D particle system for After Effects from Satya Meka (@gutsblow), has been released.

A plexus (as in solar plexus) is a tangled network structure in biology. The plug-in creates something similar in 2D or 3D in After Effects. Plexus works with AE lights and paths with custom and shaded sprites, and OBJ 3D objects can be imported and rendered as plexus wireframes.

Satya posted some demo tutorials; there's more video, a free trial, and info on AE Scripts. Here's an intro and a nice example from a tester:


Ericsson MWC Intro from Steve Kirby on Vimeo.

6 comments:

  1. Nice app, but charging $200 (eventually) for this one trick pony is ridiculous. I would buy Particular before even considering this. Maybe $100 is a bit more reasonable.

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  2. Totally agree...

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  3. How about $150?

    http://twitter.com/5tu/statuses/40613293965967360

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  4. can you run live action footage through this program and have it use the value system of the footage to create the network points? or is this a program where you have to create/program content?

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  5. You'll get better answers from Satya on his blog or even better on the AE Scripts page. Follow the links above.

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