The Synapse 3D Toolkit gives users a streamlined workflow for producing, importing and working with
3D graphics and animation in Adobe® After Effects®.
Synapse Import enables you to bring 3D geometry authored in Maya, Softimage, 3ds Max or Cinema 4D into After Effects as a custom After Effects layer. The technology supports:
Synapse Bend enables you to change the shape of any object. Bend features include:
Synapse Extrude enables you to quickly add depth to 2D After Effects layers.
Features include:
Unlike other 3D solutions for After Effects, 3D Toolkit delivers fast, efficient rendering of all the elements in your projects including regular After Effects layers. The advanced, GPU-based 3D Toolkit renderer also supports:
3D graphics and animation in Adobe® After Effects®.
- Import of standard OBJ (3D geometry) files
- Viewing of 3D objects in fully textured/shaded modes
- Fast caching of 3D objects (so files with 3D can be reopened quickly)
- Rendering of 2D /3D geometry and layers via the 3D Toolkit renderer
- Use with either Windows or Mac OS X operating systems
- A perspective view - added to the left of the After Effects viewport - similar to that found in most 3D applications
- Support for generating geometric primitives, which can then be altered
- Intuitive NURBs workflow for deforming (e.g. bending) After Effects solids and primitives
- Support for isoparms, which can be used to add detail to geometry
- Bicubic interpolation, which results in smooth surfaces
Features include:
- Support for extrusion of After Effects solids
- Extrusion supported for .psd and .ai files
- Intuitive mask-based workflow
- More details to come
- Supersampled antialiasing
- Fast rendering of complex shadows and opacity
- High-dynamic range lighting
- Per-pixel lighting
- 32-bit per channel rendering
- Integration with After Effects' cameras