After Effects Feature

Over the past 10 years animation has changed dramatically. However, the very foundation of how After Effects works has remained mostly unchanged. People all over the world are stretching the limits of the program to create next-level animations. 

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I spend countless hours in After Effects, solving complicated Visual Effects problems and creating 2D animations. Traveling over the world—collaborating with some of the best artists—I’ve started to observe and listen how other people work—and like to work.

These suggestions are meant to spur a public discussion that can lead to solutions that will benefit all current and future animators. I hope these ideas can then in turn inform the After Effects team on how we work and what steps to take next—making After Effects an even better tool than it already is today.

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VFX & 3D + Progress

VFX & 3D:

A lot of feature requests I came across have to do with visual effects and 3D, Instead of moving After Effects towards becoming a duplicate of other great VFX programs. I suggest to strengthen the things After Effects is good at and no other program can provide. AE could focus on how to make the collaboration between 3D and VFX programs better.

 

Progress:

Some people also have the impression that the updates to After Effects are slow and nothing gets updated in every release. One thing you have to realize is that the After Effects Team just re-wrote some of the key components of After Effects. So even when It might look like nothing changed, After a couple bug fixes the programs should be more stable and ready for new features.