We are pleased to announce the winners of the SkyBox Studio 360 CountDown Challenge! Entries had to show a creative 360 video countdown that was made in After Effects with SKyBox Studio. The judges looked for an immersive experience, that brought the viewer into 360 space. Thanks to all who participated! The judges had a difficult task!

Support aescripts author Sébastien Perier to finish his awesome animated movie Mythomen. He has used all the proceeds from his aescripts sales to fund the production but needs help getting it finished. Click through to see his pitch and awesome trailer.

We are partnering with Mettle in the first 360/VR Video Challenge! Create a 360/VR Countdown video using SkyBox Studio in After Effects and have a chance to win prizes and create something for your portfolio. In 360/VR it’s crucial that the viewer orient themselves in 360 space at the beginning of a film or video. What is the best way to do this? Numerically? Graphically? You show us! Can be a numeric countdown, like Hamilton+Kidd put in their LeMans 360 video below. Can incorporate live action, or can be graphics and text generated in After Effects. Be creative! Anything goes – you are helping to create a new film-making vocabulary for 360.

Khan Academy has partnered with Pixar to offer some really excellent animation principles course. Any animator should check these out.

We have a new app that will allow you to download, license and update all your aescripts + aeplugins tools in one click!  It's something that many people have been asking for and we are really excited to finally have it available.  However we need to test it first so we are asking for OS X users to give it a test.

The After Effects CC 2015 update is a significant re-architecture that affects how 3rd party plugins interact with it.  This means most plugins will require an update to work in this new version. Read more for details...

To celebrate the reprinting of the AE Timeline T-shirts we decided it would be great to see your real AE Timelines!  The most popular timelines will get a free shirt!

Lloyd was nominated by Peder Norrby and gladly accepted!

aescripts + aeplugins and Lloyd Alvarez presenting again at the After Effects World Conference 2014 in Seattle Sept 26-28

We are hosting a small booth at the Plugin Pavilion at NAB this year and want to give away some killer shirts designed by one of you!  The winning design will receive a $1000 aescripts + aeplugins gift card.

aescripts + aeplugins and Lloyd Alvarez presenting at the After Effects World Conference 2013 in Seattle Sept 27-29. 

Lloyd Alvarez will be in Tokyo the first week of September 2013 presenting at the Trapcode Creative Award and the After Effects User Group.

We are very excited to introduce the next feature-filled version of Plexus. Plexus has been very well received by the community and we love seeing all the work that is created with it. We have also received numerous requests asking for new features and have put tremendous effort into developing these new features.

There are many new exciting possibilities using the new version and we hope it’ll be an invaluable part of your toolkit.

Welcome to the all new aescripts + aeplugins.  Read all about the new features!