We develop our own motion picture softwares (animation, asset management, automation…) ; most of them are released under a free licence.

See full list on rocketstock.com. 2.4 After Effects Tools In this lesson, you're gonna be learning about some of the tools you're going to be using all of the time in After Effects. So right up here, you have the Tools bar, or the toolbar, and you have a collection of various tools. Tools, tools, and more tools. In this lesson from David Bode's course, After Effects for Beginners, following on from lesson about the main panels and core tools, you'll learn about a few more. In Adobe After Effects, select a layer, then choose a Shape tool. Click and drag over a portion of the comp to create a mask. Use the Selection tool to select the mask and reposition it. Click the Mask layer to adjust the path, feather, opacity and expansion values. If you really love paragraph text and want to create it right off the bat, select the text tool and drag in the comp window to define a box from the corner. To define a box around a center point, you can use ALT + DRAG (OPTION + DRAG on a Mac). Those are some of our.

To help us continue developping and releasing those tools for free, you can donate.

After Effects tools

After Effects Tools

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  Duik Bassel

  Inverse kinematics (IK), rigging tools, animation tools…

  version: 16.0.12

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  Duduf Groups

  Layer groups

  Version: 3.02

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  Duduf FX Manager

  Effects management in projects

  Version: 1.1

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  On demand

  If you have special needs, we can develop personalized tools too, on the need, whatever budget you have.

Other older tools developped by Duduf are still available on duduf.net, but there is no more support for them, waiting for their possible update and release here.
Those tool may not work properly with the latest versions of After Effects, or have not been updated in a long time.

Ducop – Duduf Comp Parameters, easy management of multiple compositions parameters.
Duac – Duduf Actions, automation and easy scripts creation.
Durend – Duduf Renderer, Rendering management and optimization, background rendering.

Our applications

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  Duduf Media & Frames Player

  Playing frame sequences and media..

  Version: 1.0 for Windows, Mac and Linux

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  On demand

  If you have special needs, we can develop personalized tools too, on the need, whatever budget you have.

After Effects Tools Tutorials

Support

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  Guides

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  Training

  Training
  Conferences
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  Forum

Find out more

• We’re on Github!

  Collaborative platform for development.

• About our free licences

  What you can do with our softwares, some explanations to better understand what a free software is.

• Why free?

  Some thoughts about free tools and their financing (in French).

• Films animated with our tools

  A selection of films which used our tools for their production.

Donate

At Rainbox, our tools are freely shared, and as a tool without explanation is not really useful, we also provide free support of the tools. We strongly support free software.
We’re always looking for new ways to fund all this work, trying to stay nice, honnest, and useful. (you can read this article).

Puppet Tool After Effects

Beginner After Effects Tools

To help the free release of these tools, the production of tutorials and user guides, and all other non-profit actions, you can make a donation.