Last but not least, there’s Trapcode Shine and Trapcode Starglow. Trapcode Echospace enables repeated effects like trails and 3D offsets. Trapcode Horizon is there to create infinite backgrounds in After Effects. Trapcode Lux turns After Effects lights into visible sources with volumetric properties.

Trapcode 3D Stroke enables 3D lines, paths and overlays. These keyframes can also be used to drive other effects, such as scaling to the beat. It analyzes the file and creates animation keyframes, which can drive a colorized volume bar display to that sound. Trapcode Sound Keys links to an imported audio file.

Both Tao and Mir can display these designs as wireframes, shaded polygons or rendered surfaces. These can be used for tunnel effects and land topographies. Trapcode Mir is designed to create 3D surfaces, terrains and wireframes. You can create animated objects, shapes and ribbons and all are GPU-accelerated. Tao is a simplified 3D object design tool, that enables metallic textures and the ability to incorporate the image maps from lower After Effects layers as surface textures. Trapcode Tao lets you build 3D geometries with fractal math for shapes, facets, etc. Trapcode Form lets you design particle grids, spheres and objects that evolve over time. Particular now includes certain organic 3D effects, like smoke, fire, water and more. Although other Trapcode models include presets for certain styles, only Particular includes this separate Effects Builder to browse, preview and apply effects. In this new version, you can use its built-in Effects Builder to select from certain presets and design custom effects. Trapcode Particular is typically the effect that most folks associate with Trapcode effects. Together these effects form a comprehensive toolkit for After Effects designers who really do have to create magic from scratch. Of these, 3D Stroke, Shine and Starglow will also be available within Premiere Pro CC. These include Particular, Form, Tao, Mir, Shine, Lux, 3D Stroke, Echospace, Starglow, Sound Keys and Horizon. If you install the suite, all 11 Trapcode effects will show up in After Effects CC. This package includes 11 different effects, which encompass a range of particle and volumetric lighting effects.

The newest version, available from Red Giant, is Trapcode Suite 13.

After Effects artists who are called upon to design a lot of shots that involve sci-fi effects, particles, user interface overlays, as well as shots with sparks, light rays, and sparkles have come to rely on Trapcode as their go-to plug-in set.

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