

When we contacted Maxon to ask whether perpetual licences had been discontinued, the firm replied: “Yes, it was decided to not offer a perpetual version of the individual suites.” We only spotted it had happened when we realised that Maxon’s online store isn’t listing perpetual licences of the latest versions of the three plugin collections: only of the previous releases. Unlike with Redshift, Maxon doesn’t seem to have announced the change in advance. The change makes Trapcode Suite, VFX Suite and Magic Bullet Suite the latest Maxon products to go subscrption-only, following the firm’s recent decision to drop perpetual licences of the Redshift renderer. The latest Maxon products to go subscription-only

The decision became clear with this week’s release of the latest versions of the plugin collections, which are available only via the firm’s Red Giant Complete and Maxon One subscriptions. The remarkable thing about this is that I still have control of a layer's transformations, and can apply my favorite effects to them right there.Maxon has discontinued perpetual licences of Trapcode Suite, VFX Suite and Magic Bullet Suite, the collections of effects and colour grading plugins that it acquired in its recent merger with Red Giant.

Red Giant | YouTubeDaniel Hashimoto, also known as Action Movie Dad, views Supercomp as a way to approach visual effects elements in a different way.Įverything I used to do to integrate a VFX component is now available from a quick menu. The Supercomp tool can entirely change your workflow, making it a much smoother, faster composite experience. These unique tools know how to intricately work with your compositing layers. Supercomp includes more than 15 context-aware tools. This tool is fantastic news for all VFX artists!

Supercomp has its own engine that upgrades the AE 2D engine with its own set of tools. With this amazing tool, light and atmospheric effects can interact with After Effects layers and VFX assets more naturally than typical 2D layers. One of the tools all VFX artists should read up on is Supercomp. If you haven't heard already, Red Giant has dropped the VFX Suite, a collection of nine tools for visual effects.
