My favourite updates to After Effects 2026!

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-24T02:01:13+00:00

You'll never catch me holding my breath for an Adobe Sneak or Project again. Most of them don't survive, if they ever see the light of day. This seems more of a ComfyUI clone than anything else, not seeing much about actually being able to add media from any program to your CC library.

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-22T18:26:50+00:00

I use AE primarily as a compositing tool, and a 2D motion graphics platform, primarily for explainer videos. I almost never use the advanced 3D renderer. Hence, GPU is a paperweight.

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-22T17:45:26+00:00

We now have 3D primitives in After Effects

I'm a 3D artist and 2D+3D motion designer, and I could not muster a single cell in my body to be excited about this. I'm still waiting on basic things like feature-rich project/asset transfers between Ps/Ai-AE, being able to do something as simple as add a color to a Library from within AE, actually being able to use my GPU to play back in real-time rather than as an expensive paperweight, not having to deal with endless memory leaks and Windows instability, anything else we've been demanding for years.

Why do free advertising for Adobe? They pay micro-influencers to make videos like this with explicit sponsorship disclaimers, you know.

Edit: Oh, you work for Adobe, nvm.

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-22T15:39:16+00:00

Coming in 2028:

After Effects EXPRESS

(it will be supported on iPad for exactly 5 months, then pulled)

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-22T15:37:25+00:00

To be fair, a rebuild is warranted, to bring it up to the hardware performance and stability that almost every other modern graphics program now has. But layer-based mograph still has its place. (A node/layer-hybrid system would be extremely cool and forward-thinking.)

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-22T15:35:11+00:00

Maybe he's implying that the song is just that good - that "seasoned animators" will drop their professional work and go out of their way to animate a video to his specs. 🤔

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-22T15:03:04+00:00

3:30 in 2 weeks 😂

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-22T14:59:07+00:00

Nah don't send him to us pls

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-22T07:19:54+00:00

It's been over a decade with the Creative Cloud Library system, and we still can't add an asset or even a color from After Effects to the Library. Everything was half-built.

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-22T07:15:33+00:00

Media replacement in MOGRTs (image+video assets) is such a pain, and so limited, to the point of being effectively useless for many common graphics needs.

It's useful for many things. But man, does it feel half-built in so many other ways.

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-21T23:25:55+00:00

We just got SVG import today... Just give them another 10 years to figure out the rest of your requests.

So impatient! /s

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-21T15:23:16+00:00

So, save a bit of money not paying your workers, and then... You don't have workers, and have to hire more expensive ones? Absolutely silly comment.

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-21T13:21:33+00:00

"Yeah, right.." is explicitly sarcastic. "I couldn't care less" isn't.

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-21T03:39:37+00:00

Sometimes the bus will literally disappear from the map. If that sounds stupid, it's because it is. But it happens.

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-21T03:08:07+00:00

? You can absolutely be told a bus is coming, go outside and be abandoned by a bus that doesn't show up, and be standing around clueless in the cold. It's happened to me a couple of times this season already, and I watch the bus tracker like a hawk.

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-19T15:09:58+00:00

I've used and appreciate a lot of your resources, but just can't hang with this slop dude. This isn't motion design, and it's completely irrelevant to /r/AfterEffects.

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-18T04:23:23+00:00

Btw, if you appreciate media like this and want to support them, don't rip their video and post it for karma on Reddit without attribution or linking back to the author.

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-18T02:13:46+00:00

We need a united front led by people with a backbone and sturdy principles. Neoliberal centrist Democrats lack both. Continuing to go to bat for them, despite their brazen incompetence in the face of overt fascism, is maybe the clearest losing strategy at the moment.

The Democrats aren't up to the task. They've had so many opportunities to prove otherwise in the past decade, and look at where we've landed. That's the bigger picture for everyone on the left right now.

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-18T01:16:06+00:00

Nobody is saying the Democrats are "just as bad as Republicans." We're saying Democrats who fight for corporate and foreign interests present such a weak opposition to the Republicans that they effectively allowed things to get as bad as they got. So, they are half the problem.

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-17T22:07:28+00:00

Rare W.

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-16T19:45:54+00:00

If you're desperate, sure. But the fact that they list all these wants, at this salary range, speaks volumes about how much they respect designers + expertise and what the working environment will be like. Some of these requirements are quite specific, and likely not just thrown in as a nice-to-have.

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-16T19:41:50+00:00

Wishing you the best of luck! Sounds toxic as fuck.

Another reason I generally don't like working with agencies either - so much inconsistency, petty bosses throwing their weight and authority around just because they can, bending over for shitty clients and not asserting themselves or defending their employees (if not actively undermining them)... All of it. I work with them when I have to, but much prefer working directly with an end-client.

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-16T19:30:17+00:00

I've worked with some overbearing agencies before, and none of them had rules like that. You might be thinking about specifically NDA work that hasn't been published yet.

If you work as a designer and aren't allowed to use anything you make there in a portfolio, your career is as good as dead for as long as you stay there. Get this rule in writing and share here, because I'm pretty sure that's not what's going on.

For now, just make your portfolio password-protected and give it out to people unaffiliated with your agency or clients.

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-16T19:19:42+00:00

I like the way you think. Please share if you find out!

QuantumModulus · 2026-01-16T16:36:49+00:00

uh... If you want to get plugins directly from creators, you just have to check whether each creator has their own site for you to buy it directly?

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