am telling everyone out there who uses AE to buy this program, you have to see it to believe just how good it is. I don't work for VC or know them personally so Im not getting anything out of saying this (I wish) but. I could go on all day about why its the most important plugin for my work flows but it just allows a lot of new possibilities for creative outputs. While simple concepts are easy to achieve, photorealism requires patience, practice, experimentation, and a compatible OpenGL video card with at least 2 GB of VRAM.īlender is a professional, free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications and video.I've already used Element and can tell you its faster that what their website suggests, its quite remarkable and the render capabilities are out of this world. As with any 3d program, Element 3d has a learning curve. However, professional results, especially with simple scenes such as logo fly-ins and animated typography can be achieved in a comparatively short time. Element 3d is more limited in its ability to generate scenes from scratch than a full featured 3d program such as Cinema 4d. Although there are limitations to rendering in OpenGL compared to raytraced rendering, many workarounds are possible to help yield highly photorealistic results, especially if the workstation is equipped with a high end video card. The plugin features physically based shaders, texture mapping, lighting, animating and 3D compositing tools. It uses OpenGL to generate images more quickly than CPU rendering is currently capable of. Element is capable of animating and rendering.

It is mostly used for motion design and visual effects. It is used for importing/creating 3d objects and for particle rendering. It is a 64-bit plugin that runs in both Windows and MacOS. Element 3D is a third-party After Effects plugin developed by Video Copilot.

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