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The Stats
- Developer: Red Giant Software (formerly Digital Anarchy 3D Assistants)
- Version: 1.3
- Platform: Mac OSX, Windows
- Compatibility with After Effects 7, Compatibility with After Effects CS3, Mac Universal Binary, Mac OSX Leopard Compatibility and Microsoft Vista Compatibility
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Description
PlaneSpace eliminates the tedious task of managing the individual layers in multi-layer effects. The Creator tools automatically create layers that form cubic, cylindrical, and spheroid shapes or complex matrices, while the six Distribute tools arrange 3D layers throughout 3D space into the shape of your choice without requiring keyframes or complicated math.
Features
- Sophisticated Shape to Shape Animation You can use multiple assistants to animate between two shapes. Want a cylynder to animate into a sphere, no problem, just keyframe with two different shape assistants. After Effects will take care of the animation for you.
- Built with After Effects Layers with the PlaneSpace, you stay within After Effect’s 3D space so animation and other effects can be easily integrated with mutliple cameras and lights.
- Creator Tools The Creator Tools generate boxes, cylinders, a matrix or spheroid. The different tools have a host of options to set up the scale, number of layer, height, width, and controls to randomize the results.
- Distribution Tools The Distribution Tools let you distribute layers around a sphere, cube, cylinder, line, plane or pyramid. Unlike the Creator tools, the distribution tools build off the base shape. For example, cylinder distribution can create planar arrangements that looks like fans, a corkscrew or a staircase with just a few clicks.
- Pro and Lite Options The control palette are divided into two categories, Pro and Lite. The Lite tools let you quickly build a shape with minimum work, while the Pro version offers more control over placement and repitition.
Highlights
No Keyframes Necessary
Unlike keyframe assistants such as The Wiggler, PlaneSpace does not need keyframes to be present in a layer. In fact, these tools weren't designed to set keyframes at all, but are designed to arrange layers in 3D space. Of course, you can still set keyframes to animate the position or orientation of your layers, to make truly sophisticated objects in 3D.
Unlimited Number of Layers
The number of layers that PlaneSpace can manipulate is limited only by your computer’s processing power. PlaneSpace can even duplicate and distribute large groups of layers. 400 layers? No problem – PlaneSpace makes it possible, and easy.
Powerful Controls
No matter what shape you choose for your layers, you customize settings for size, distribution, distance (how far apart the layers will be), and incremental distance. Set repeat values to save RAM by duplicating 10 layers instead of 100 individual ones.
Examples
Adobe TV Blocks
This show open for Adobe TV uses Red Giant PlaneSpace to create the ABC blocks.
Film Noir Traffic
This Film Noir-inspired shot uses a lot of our products! Red Giant Text Anarchy creates the traffic patterns in the background, PlaneSpace tiles the traffic pattern over and over again, and Key Correct Pro Light Wrap aids in compositing the actor over the glowing background. Magic Bullet Looks helps the composite by bringing all of the colors together. (from RGTV Ep. 10)
Lightning Room Shake
This shot uses Red Giant PlaneSpace to create the octagonal passage, and Knoll Light Factory Pro for the flash of light.
PlaneSpace Spheroid
A single masked layer is turned into multiple nested spheres using the simple controls in PlaneSpace. These objects are true 3D objects that can interact with lights and cast shadows.
PlaneSpace Star Wall
PlaneSpace's Distribute tools arrange these multicolored stars into a flat plane. By animating the transform controls in PlaneSpace, the individual elements can appear to create or explode from a single plane.
Video Game
This shot, inspired by Star Wars the Arcade Game (circa 1983), used Red Giant PlaneSpace in setting up the 3D elements (ship, asteroids), Red Giant Text Anarchy for the text elements, and Trapcode Particular for the
Update
If you are a Digital Anarchy user, you can get a FREE update to the current existing version of the same product from Red Giant Software. There is NO charge to get the new version from Red Giant Software.
How It Works
You simply enter your name, email, and old Digital Anarchy serial number, and you will be sent a new Red Giant Software serial number for the equivilant product. For example, if you owned Digital Anarchy Data Animator, you can get the latest version of Red Giant Datamator with new Intel Mac support and better performance.
Visit:Serial Number Conversion
Supported Products
The following products are available for exchange:
- 3D Assistants is now Red Giant PlaneSpace
- Data Animator is now Red Giant Datamator
- Psunami Water is now Red Giant Psunami
- Resizer is now part of Instant HD and Instant HD Advanced
- Text Anarchy remains Text Anarchy and includes Geomancy and Anarchy Toolbox filters
- ToonIt! is now Red Giant ToonIt and includes support for all platforms including Avid
System Requirements
Our tests have shown that our products perform best when used with the system configurations listed below. Although many of our products will run on older or less-powerful systems, those listed below are the minimum system requirements which we support.
Apple Macintosh
- Mac OSX 10.4.11 and later
- Power Mac G5 or Intel Mac
- 1 GB of RAM
- 15 MB of Hard Drive space
PC / Windows
- Windows XP SP1 32-bit and later
- Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit
- Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
- 1GB of RAM
- 30 MB of Hard Drive space
Host Applications
- Adobe After Effects CS4, CS3, 7, 6.5
