Element 3D V2: New Specular Model!

October 27th, 2014

Of the many new featuresannounced with Element 3D V2 (so far), there is one I am particularly excited about and that isthe new specular highlight model.

The new spec model takes advantage of the new physical shader system and featuresa natural light falloff helps create more realistic shaders! You can even get the specular to be much smaller and sharp or large and diffused. May seem like a small thing but it makes a big difference!

Andrew Kramer

POSTED:

11 years ago

148 Comments

pcmate

8 years ago

Nice element.

josh

11 years ago

Released DEC. 2 !!!!
http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2014/11/element-3d-v2-official-release-date/

ps. Go Raiders!!

Droni Shqiptar

11 years ago

I need to upgrade my gpu :S!

11 years ago

Hola ANDREW KRAMER. Sería ético publicar una fecha de lanzamiento exacta para el Element 3D v2. Estamos en la segunda mitad del mes de noviembre y no hay respuestas para las tantas preguntas e inquietudes que tenemos tus seguidores. La expectativa es buena cuando se trata de lanzar un producto; pero ignorar a tus clientes puede ser contraproducente para tu producto. Por favor sería saludable que te pronunciaras.

Steffen

11 years ago

should not be released on 15/11/2014 , it does not look like maybe the end of November

Redo

11 years ago

Mid-November.. Hmm..

Steffen

11 years ago

when will Element3D V2

ali

11 years ago

Hello. Please elements v2 released when the news via email !!

thanx

Marco

11 years ago

Andrew I think I have come across a bug with the current version of element. element city pack objects do not react to the change in value of the falloff and radius of a point light. It could just be my version but if it is not.. you may want to fix this in element v2

ThÃ©o M

11 years ago

Je l'ai déjà commandé !!! #MarchéPhiléassiens

Sean

11 years ago

I didn't see the Rig control button in E3D V2...Hope its there for the Flight Kit and other Rigged models...

Espen

11 years ago

Can you post a screenshot or something, anything against the Anticipation

Scott

11 years ago

I want you to take my money now!

Pavan Kumar

11 years ago

Thank AK
Some More Use Full Tutorial Please
What Happen ?

rodrigo nunes

11 years ago

Andrew, the standart shader material will have an specular as the one in V1.6 version, or will be the same in both shaders?

Alex

11 years ago

I can already see myself pushing the F5 button on November, 30th .....

dudley

11 years ago

i have a deadline @15th of december,fingers crossed for the release asap <3

Christian Michael

11 years ago

Getting kinda excited. The anticipation is killing us lol

Christian Michael
https://vimeo.com/93091965

idowu

11 years ago

video co pilot u guys are 2much.

lskywalk

11 years ago

Looking forward to get that thing... did some small tests with skypack and my own model http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woirZYhPuUo - but moving shadows are essintial and Im so exciting to get the new version. Thank you very much for element3D Andrew Kramer!

Christian Michael

11 years ago

The anticipation is a killer......lol

Christian Michael
https://vimeo.com/104794820

11 years ago

Kramer sir sorry am already uninstalled v1 waiting v2....

11 years ago

Just for fun, while we are waiting, let's guess on the pricing and release date.

I say $199.95 for E3D v2 and $49.95 to upgrade from a previous version. Release date, Nov 24th, 'cause you know his wife is gonna kill him if he's doing this over Thanksgiving!

Tristan

11 years ago

Andrew I would like to say on behalf of all of us, you are truly an inspiration, role model and pioneer in our little giant world of Digital arts. You are a truly disruptive force in the industry and you probably make a lot of people around you incredibly proud.

cheers buddY! p.s. release Element 3D 2.0 already..

p.p.s How can I invest into Kramer Enterprises?

Sean

11 years ago

He also works at Bad Robot...FYI

ali

11 years ago

I think it would be released end November... element 3D V2.0

If it is the End year I'll... waiting...

CWP

11 years ago

Single expression applied to both random displacement and scatter multi to random rotation of a fractured .obj hosted via Element 3D (non-ray trace composition)

Current Version 1.6 Render to compare to V2.0

60fps slowed to 33.3%

Two-node camera
Film size 111 mm
Focal length 17.53mm
zoom 106.98 mm
D.O.F. - (element continuous blur mode)
Focal distance 5 7mm
Aperture 14.69 mm
F-Stop 1.2
Zoom automated from between 300px to 100px.

Box Map model
Custom Environment map solid Black
Stylized Lighting
1 positioned Parallel white light at about 11 o'clock position about 400 pix distance

VFXer Shatter pack model - Thank you
ProShaders Textures Video Copilot
RSMB REVision
After Effects 11 Adobe

CWP

11 years ago

https://vimeo.com/111075328
link

natoone

11 years ago

I'm curious, with the Oculus coming out. And the demand for 360 deg. video content goes up. Does the great Andrew Kramer have any ideas on how compositing could be done in such a medium? As far as I know, 360 content right now is limited to guided tours. Much like the begininng 2d cinematic videos 100, years ago. Is 360 video only going to be possible by huge company with major capital? Or can a regular guy, with the right gear. Make something incredible?

asART. 3D and motion graphics

11 years ago

Hi ..
Here is a template which we've created with ELEMENT 3D V1 .. Enjyo!

https://vimeo.com/102530669

Pablo

11 years ago

He's stuff is so cool he could probably finance the whole project by pre-selling the plugin

Motasim Billah

11 years ago

hi,
please wait this november. E3D V2 is now processing. Andrew has tell wait this november.
he tried hardly. I suggest everyone please wait this november.

Gildo

11 years ago

Como gostaria de fazer uma cena em C4D apenas dar o render no (E3D V2). Seria insano fazer isso.
Quem sabe no futuro.

Butch Fyll

11 years ago

He said, they release in November right? He didn't tell the exact date as long as in the month of November..

Rohullah kabir

11 years ago

hey whats up!Can u please tell us when is the exact release date for the E3D v2 i'm checking the site every hour we waited so long now its November.

AlleyKat

11 years ago

PBR in AE...Dope.

How's this working out with Linear workflows AK? Any weird anomalies?

spencer

11 years ago

What's with the aliasing in the reflection in v2.0? v1.6 looks far sharper - which isn't always what you want, I know, but v2.0 looks a little low-res.

- Spencer

JosephF

11 years ago

I agree that we shouldn't be rude or demanding, however he isn't making this product as a charity, he is selling it to his customers, i.e. us. So it stands to reason when we see the amazing progress he and the team has made in this incredible update, many of us are waiting with projects for E3D v2.

I personally think software development is one of that hardest things anyone can do, but as it is november it would be nice to at least give us the official release date and pricing. All the cool extra features, and tutorials can wait until the products actual release.

CerebralCortexan

11 years ago

I guarantee you he will release that information as soon as possible.

Zack G

11 years ago

Joseph I'm sure Andrew will keep you in mind next time he needs help marketing/releasing one of his products...

Emir

11 years ago

Compatible with CS6 or only CC?

Jason

11 years ago

I just realized I have checked the website 8 times today hoping for more info.Stepping away from my computer now...

Hamster

11 years ago

Hi Andrew,
Can't wait to sink my teeth into V2, I have a number of possible jobs on the horizon that i don't want to start, as if i start them now they will have to be completed in V1, where they could look at least 99% better in V2. Any idea of hint of when this month you will be making christmas come early, promise I won't tell a soul lmao,

Cheers

ps. Keep up the amazing work

VFXGUY

11 years ago

I woke from a horrible dream last night that the reason for still no pricing info on E3DV2 and a new website reveal this week was because Video Copilot went to a subscription model. This made me terribly sad because with all of these things going to monthly models it is severely limiting my ability to make a living during slow months.

VFXguy

11 years ago

based on this being killed in moderation I guess it is true.

Lex

11 years ago

I am little disappointed with you Andrew. Not that V2 is not released - I know you are working on that. I know that you guys will do a stellar job when it finally come out. I was however hoping for a quick update. I am tired of checking VC every couple hours to see if the site has been updated

Scott

11 years ago

Any news on this? Would love to use v2, I really want to get away from the traditional pre-rendered 3D work!!

Ken

11 years ago

RAHH!! Can't wait any longer!! LOL

Art

11 years ago

As much as how excited I am like the rest here. It's sad to see how demanding or even rude people can be. Andrew, take as much time as you need because I know once when you release it it will be worth the wait

Rick

11 years ago

I know, right?! It blows my mind that Andrew said November and as soon as November 1st rolls around, people are stoping just short of calling him a lier. Honestly, if I were him, I'd be delaying the release just to spite them.

BillH

11 years ago

Like so many, I'm chomping at the bit for V2.0 especially as I have a brand new workstation loaded up with all my apps and plugins, just waiting for a clean install of the latest version instead of installing V1.6 however, go easy on AK and the team as there's still four weeks left in November! It will be ready when its ready

Darin

11 years ago

it's November already... please hurry!!!!!

CerebralCortexan

11 years ago

You can bet they all are working hard on this. No need to rush perfection. It'll come when it's ready.

Terkovian

11 years ago

Hey Andrew,

Wanted to ask a question, have you seen any issues with E3D v2 when it comes to Yosemite 10.10? Noticed when I upgraded that my adobe creative cloud is not working as well as it did due to some plugins from mediacore. Would this be something that could be affected as well or is E3d installed in a different location? Weird question I know. Still excited!!

Pacaworks

11 years ago

AE CC2014 is a bit wonky in Yosemite, but I'm certain a fix in imminent. My Red Giant plugs seem to be okay. I'm sure AK and crew are hip to it, too.

dudley

11 years ago

just upgraded my gpu from asus radeon 6850 to zotac gtx 770 amp for Element V 2.0 today !!!

Austen

11 years ago

I am literally holding off projects for the v2. A release date announcement, at least, would be great. Can't we pre-order.

Ron Capes

11 years ago

Same here. I want to get some kick ass space battles and dogfights going but I want to wait until I can use shadows, reflections, and of course the auxiliary channel features.

Demone

11 years ago

Is it here YET?...Is it here YET?... Is it here YET?

lol

Steven Jenkins

11 years ago

Just thought I'd add my name to the list. Any news of a release date yet?

Ali

11 years ago

November is Now !!!

Is not was no element 3D V 2.0 of !!!!

Waiting...

Amyou Munanga

11 years ago

I like thank you

I m living RDC

Iman

11 years ago

Hi
In This November
My Heart Beats Like a Drum

AzCardsFan

11 years ago

That's beautiful...

11 years ago

MR.Kramer Everyone wait this November....

Josephlf

11 years ago

Andrew, I know you guys are furiously working hard to give us the most incredible release you possibly can, but please at least give us an update on the final release date along with pricing. And maybe that little missing tidbit about C4D...

Joseph

Brett

11 years ago

V2 is exciting news. However, we've been struggling managing AE/Element projects in our render farm. As we're about to buy some new blades I have been advised the best card we can get into the blades is Nividia Quadro K620 (The current farm has matrox G200 cards). Is that going to be enough to render projects on a blade when the original AE projects were created on Quadro4000 cards? We used Deadline render management software if that matters.

G-Phi

11 years ago

Can't wait to see all of the new stuff in Element 3D Version 2 and the future tutorials using the features in it.

Having this be available for purchase this month is like having an early Christmas gift.

G-Phi

https://www.youtube.com/gphiproductions
http://gphiproductions.com

Austen

11 years ago

I'm going to die by dehydratation if it doesnt release. I can't stop F5ing till its out!

Stuco36

11 years ago

People, don't constantly nag and ask when V2 will be out.....it will be out when it's out. I'm very much looking forward to it myself, but don't mind even if it takes a couple
or more months to come out. It looks so impressive and the amount of work that must of gone in to it......something this good is worth the wait. It will be here soon don't panic. Andrew and team....great stuff.

Ali

11 years ago

Hi Mr. Kramer So what was promised in November ?

Element 3D V 2.0 !!!!?

Rick

11 years ago

Dude, relax. Last time I checked, it's still November. In fact, it's EARLY November. Get your panties de-knotted and go stand in a corner.

LordEdington

11 years ago

Any chance you could release this in December, rather than November?

tolga ozisik

11 years ago

November first. We need more good news. Cheers...

Bobomet

11 years ago

OK Andrew .... It's November! Where's that THANG !?!?

Just Kidding ! ! ! ! !
Wanted to be 1st to say it!

I remember the morning after Halloween when my children were very young!
Best!

Viki

11 years ago

OMG!!! Fantastic and MIND BLOWING.WOnderful andrew.
You are the best

McGergs

11 years ago

Any plans to try and integrate Substance Designer materials by chance? it looks like you are heading in the same direction.

owais

11 years ago

Sir,please make tutorial for motion capture & real 3D face texture ....i'm curious about how we do that .....it is wonderful movie "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" for motion capture .....I want to see real texture to look real 3D face
...................I M WAITING FOR REPLY ..THANXX............................

Redo

11 years ago

I am so curious about the Cinema 4D Integration with the V2 !

Sean

11 years ago

I wish Adobe would hand over their 3D environment to you guys and have you rewrite it from the ground up. You guys are killing with Element. It's incredibly well done. Greatly looking forward to 2.0!

sparda

11 years ago

Wish You Happy Halloween Andrew Family,Team and My Video Copilot Friends Enjoy

Anderson

11 years ago

Please make an Helicopter pack (with reasonable price for students).

thierry

11 years ago

The button on/off of each layer is great (i have asked for this since the V1), but we stiil have to open the group to activate it...
It could be easier, and faster, to put it just beside the name of the group...??
Ok, i saw this button can be animate, could be useful, but if i want to work only with one group at a time without modifed the activate animation of the others??
Thinks about it, please

wes

11 years ago

Andrew - will there be an ability to add a curvature to the front of a font face or bend objs?

Mostafa ELgammal

11 years ago

well well well all that upgrade is good but still on car not so realistic hood part its ok but the side of the car have plastic look and about the old shadow under the aircraft was chrisp is there any way to be more smother and the car shader it need more of falloff there is feather in C4D last edition r16 in material editor make you make your material on layers with full control i don't want to speak much , and sorry for my english

Greeting from Egypt and thank you for all what you make us arrive too

Brad

11 years ago

Is there going to be some new Environments for reflection mapping? Or might you be making a pack thats loaded with new environments? On all of your samples that you put up on your site, they seem to have really nice looking studio environments, will they be in the new V2? Maybe you can do a tutorial on how to make your own? Just wondering?

Raoul

11 years ago

There is some nice 2k environments maps here :
http://goo.gl/sPOV6S

Brad

11 years ago

Wow, those shader examples are just amazing. What a difference. I can hardly wait to apply this new version to my work. Thanks Andrew, and to your team, you guys rock!

Dan

11 years ago

Is there going to be release date and pricing info soon? Starting to look like we will know when it is actually released, November is only 3 days away...Please just take my money.

McGergs

11 years ago

Andrew,
The new physical based lighting features you are adding are really cool. I can't wait to use them! Have you guys thought about making Element 3D compatible with Substance Designer? Maya, 3DS Max and Modo are all integrated with it now. I was just wondering if it was something your team of graphics programmers was exploring as a possibility in future releases.

Peter

11 years ago

Very impressed! Looking forward to the new speculars!

Gretchen

11 years ago

Hi Andrew. This release seems cool and all, but if it crashes on me as much as the last version then it's completely useless to me. I work in a professional field, and cannot have a program that crashes every 10 minutes! Let's hope those problems got resolved.

Andy

11 years ago

available in end of month man, so we got salary to purchase it. because we have spent money for a girl also

Jack

11 years ago

Any good graphics card you can suggest me to buy Andrew?

vfxarun

11 years ago

Hi Andrew Your Product Best!Adobe Keynote Very Very Useful in your Talk Thanks Andrew.

Tom Rennen

11 years ago

Andrew, is it now possible to add model parts to a specific group rather than using a material or texture? Sometimes I model complex geometry in Lightwave but don't always use UV maps. With the new shading features in E3D V2, I will use those more often but cant if the models rely on assigned textures for group assignment.

Reza

11 years ago

Mr. Andrew

Your products are amazing and so are your tutorials. You're awesome as well, of course. Will you please sometimes explain what you're doing and why you're doing it (in the tutorials) in layman's terms. We all very much appreciate what you do for us. I know there's others that want to ask this, but just haven't. Please...Thank you

Blair

11 years ago

A great feature to include that I think would not be too hard to implement would be a system to create some basic 3D bezier splines (or import them) and have our animated objects follow these paths.

This would work great for an array of objects (cars on a track for example)

I used this array technique for a race in this Wipeout for PS4 render but had to manually animate the path they travelled. Align to spline would be amazing

https://vimeo.com/77755601

sparda

11 years ago

Hi Andrew Can We modify the materials shader's and shall we add HDRI map to it

Artem

11 years ago

Hi Andrew! Is there will be native interaction with optical flares?

vfx.cu

11 years ago

AK, has the new shader system some compatibility with "substances" files? I think that could be awesome.

Andreas

11 years ago

Yeahhh shadows!! Can't wait!
Some improvements to orient the 3D Model in a Motion track shot? Or i still must use the plugin "Orient World" from "Mamoworld"?

Andrew Kramer

11 years ago

That has more to do with After effects and I think they did improve with with AE CC. There is an option with the tracker to make certain points the origin.

Andreas

11 years ago

Thanks for the fast answer Andrew!
I know its a AE CS6 Traker Problem, but you have so many great scripts, plugins to improve workflow... it would be a nice feature inside Element 3D

But anyway...
Element 3d plugin is the best I've seen and used so far!

po.is.on

11 years ago

Andrew is E3d v2 going to be released on your birtday ?

Leon

11 years ago

Less talk more work people. Chop chop. Haha May the Gforce be with you.

marc

11 years ago

will Element 3D be able import Cinema 4D project files intact with Textures without having to rebuild an Object? I've tried rebuilding Objects but Element 3D doesn't map the Textures correctly even using the defaults ones from Element 3D with Melange selected in Cinema 4D when Saving, thanks

Jeremias

11 years ago

Great updates, if the kitchen is still no closed.. can i ask if its possible to match objects in 3ds max and Maya escenes?

Turalfox

11 years ago

I Think we can export obj sequence from C4d and render this scene via Element 3d.
I think results will better in comparasion - https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=9DTygOCsK7k

What do you think In this regard Andrew ?

Mahmoud

11 years ago

This looks more realistic.

sai

11 years ago

Hi Andrew, would element 3d 2.0 make it easier to bring in models (bought from other websites, obj) into it? I know it's very possible to do that with 1.6 but I always had problems with textures other stuff like shapes looking weird.
Thanks <3

Eric Lin

11 years ago

STOP TEASING!! JUST GIVE IT TO ME!!

Elliot

11 years ago

Alright everybody, let's all vote on what Element packs we want for Element 3D! I think if enough of you guys reply to this saying what you want and why you want it, it will get Andrew's attention, and maybe he'll work on it!

So one that I think would be really cool is a "space pack." As we all know Andrew did the end title sequence for Star Trek Into Darkness this would be amazing. He could have some unique planets, maybe some 4k space enviroments, there could even be a few stars that could be animated (as in the heat coming off it.) Andrew I hope you take this into consideration, and anybody else be sure to let us know what you would like to see in E3D!

By the way, does anybody know if the Element packs already installed will be put into Element V2? I'm guessing so but I just want to be 100% sure.

lordedington

11 years ago

Space pack would be good. Planets, asteroids, comets, moons, a proper Saturn model with decent rings, shuttles, ISS, satellites, 4K space environments, the sun, earth, astronauts etc

Elliot

11 years ago

Yes I agree, all of that or at least some of it in a pack would be tremendous. I am pretty darn sure there will be a Pro Shaders 2.

Also I think there could be a automobile pack, Andrew has shown off some car models in tutorials before so I think that could be a large pack.

Anderson

11 years ago

OMG Helicopters !! It's the most basic and fun thing to animate. There's tons of shitty models around and then there's this 400 USD turbosquid god machine .. we need a decent helicopter for a reasonable price. Reasonable for people like me, a student.

abhay sharma

11 years ago

Please include alembic support.

Ken Geary

11 years ago

I'm having crashing issues with e3d. Scene is unusual size. 7106x1080. Will v2 be more stable for large comps (like 4k resolution and larger)

Andrew Kramer

11 years ago

Unfortunately it is not a matter of software stability in this case, but simply the graphics card doesn't have enough memory to render at that resolution.

Textures, models, passes, ambient occlusion etc, all of these things use up memory like filling a glass of water. When the glass runs out of space (memory), it overflows. The key is to limit your memory usage by reducing Multi-Sampling to save memory and using Super Sampling which uses less.

I will say that we have reduced the amount of memory needed for many operations but rendering at that resolution is almost 4 times as many pixels as HD requires a loaded gpu.

SND

11 years ago

Andrew is right.
They have used 6 GB hardcoded card for Title sequence of Startreck at 2K/4K (idk) which resolution.

Sodefinetly it depends upon what Gcard you have .. according to that.. you will render that quality of high render bro..

I tried 2k Element comp render with my middle end 1GB card it support it.. But 4k is not supporting with same card
Used 4GB graphics card.. it (4K) support there easily..

SND

11 years ago

You are talking about 8K resolution.. bro
And its too short in height.. so it might be complicated for your card. Ateast you should use 6GB card.. for that

Ian

11 years ago

What about Element3D for print designs? So far i always had to chose 2k resolution to compensate for the 'low' DPI (72). What about now? Do you guys have any solution? So far my prints were relatively small, but what if i need to have bigger? I will have to use this 8k or something too? I could use 3DsMax but Element has way better/faster/easier to do results..

wes

11 years ago

There's only 1 screen in the world that large. good to see e3d being put to some good use on the 8k screen

PIXELFLUX

11 years ago

@Ian - print requires nothing more than a high resolution image. DPI is a print quality parameter and given the same image changing the DPI just means you can print a larger image at coarse print settings or a smaller image at finer print settings. If you're printing an A4 image at 300DPI needs 3525 pixels in width, yet printing at 150DPI needs only half that!
Unless you're printing high-quality posters there is almost never a need to go beyond 4k for normal A3/A4 print and brochures.
Hope this sheds some light on that. If you'd like more info - feel free to drop me a line on 'info [at] pixelflux [dot] net'

Voltz

11 years ago

Thanks for your generosity by the way. You guys made an amazing job here!

Voltz

11 years ago

OBJ file from Blender is not really working properly in v1.6. I hope in V2.0 this issue will be addressed.

Achmad Abitia

11 years ago

i think in the future this plugin will become like 3DsMax on AE so we can make any 3D objek without another 3D program

EXCITED!!!

my7promise

11 years ago

This dream come a reality
Thank you very much
When did multi-GPU support?

SND

11 years ago

Element v2 doesnt support Multi GPU feature

Emmanuel

11 years ago

This looks more realistic, why didn't we notice it at first..... hmmm that show tins are - excitement right

I was thinking if the crew can do something about import obj files from maya, it really sucks before now! we cant import from maya successfully with stress even simple text, they explode.... thanks AK.

Patrick J (Vizual Alkemi)

11 years ago

AWESOME Can't wait! We use Element on almost every project at some capacity, and knock clients socks off every time! Whether Motion Graphics or VFX E3D has become a go to staple at our studio so of course V2 will be added to the aresonal! Hey Andrew are you coming to Chicago anytime soon? You should come speak at half res with Nick Campbell regarding C4D and E3D V2 implementation, work-arounds and workflow.

Patrick J

11 years ago

hahaha aresonal, didn't catch it before I sent it. lol

yosefanan

11 years ago

Can you add some modifiers effects like bend the text and Twist it and some other like in 3D max modifiers?

Jeff

11 years ago

If I could add my wish list, the obj sequence is very slow to render once outside of Element 3D and back in the work area of AE. Is it possible to do something about this? I was thinking that if Element 3D could create a video file once setting the global parameters (e.g., animation, size, location, etc). In other words, skip the AE rendering for the 3D object. AE will see the Element 3D object as a video file.

Andrew Kramer

11 years ago

Unfortunately, OBJ files need to be loaded for every frame with an animation sequence, there is not really a good way to cache this without using up all your GPU memory.

Jeff

11 years ago

Thanks, Andrew. There's just no fast way to render animation. How am I gonna make the next Avengers movie at this rate.

Kenshin3D

11 years ago

is it too hard to implement some of the point cache systems like alembic?

Joseph coleman

11 years ago

Please, I hope that supporting Alembic is on the radar. It will fix the memory issues with Obj sequences.

Paul

11 years ago

Andrew,

Nice Balls! (oh come on... someone had to go there)

Jacob Behunin

11 years ago

Totally Awesome!

But, I did have one feature, that I didn't see addressed in your video.
Transparency in your textures! i.e., if you use a PNG that has transparency, on a flat plane. Currently, element doesn't handle it that well. It's pretty chunky. Even with using the Threshold options.
Would love to see that worked out!

With that said, You-da-Man!

JosephG

11 years ago

Oh for the love of god! Comon Andrew, you're killing us! Just take our money already that way everyone leaves happy

Stevie

11 years ago

Amazing attention to detail. do you have transfer modes on object textures yet. For example can we play run a texture with an alpha channel on a surface and it not have that lovely premultiplied look.

Mosy

11 years ago

please hurry up we thirsty my hero

Gayo Jama

11 years ago

Andrew! you are the best (Videocopilot)

N4V1NDU

11 years ago

DIS IS HOW WE ROLL AFTER EFFECTS...

Terkovian

11 years ago

So are you going to take some queues from Apple and once you're done with announcing Element you will come up with your version of "Oh and there's one more thing!"?? Lol I am ok with this.

JMS

11 years ago

So is this a new feature that's been added to the PBS's since the V2 sneak peak video? I was under the impression that the specular was now tied to the glossiness slider...
(Very much looking forward to the release!!)

Abidal A. Sarraj

11 years ago

Thanks for all your hard work guys, you make our life easier and with every contribution you guys make we get the chance to make something beautiful and amazing..

Just want to let you guys know how much I appreciate your work I'm doing a refresh on the site every few hours waiting for the upgrade button to magically appear

Thanks again can't wait.
Regards

Anthony

11 years ago

I don't fully understand what this means (all old VCP models don't work with this?), but it looks filthy. Very well done! You don't realize what you're missing out on until you see the old put next to the new

I'm sure that you will explain this in time, but I'm wondering if this is a "setting" that can be adjusted for all 3d models/primatives/text, independent of the model or if this specular highlight feature requires a model that is optimized for this effect in Element 2.

Thanks again!

paul pratt

11 years ago

Take your time Andrew, you always give us the best products. Can't wait for Element V2 3d .
Thank you over & over!!!!!!

Tomas

11 years ago

I´m looking forward for this update. But I wonder if there will be also obj sequence export? Anyway guys, what do you think about this shield I made? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85DRTzPX2D4

Elliot

11 years ago

I think it's alright. For the future I think watching this tutorial and trying out some of the cool tricks would help to make the shield look more powerful.

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/sci-fi_weapon_fx/

Julien

11 years ago

A bit off topic, it reminds me of my latest use for Element 3D:
Happy Halloween VideoCopilot community!
http://youtu.be/jNByMs2oYpY
(bats entirely created and animated with 3D elements - like the old version from last year)

Elliot

11 years ago

Cheers mate, not bad, not bad at all.

roger

11 years ago

very cool so this coming out on the 4th of NOV Andrew?

11 years ago

My guess is sometime between Nov 17th and the 26th.

Truitt

11 years ago

Any new model packs in the near future?

Simon

11 years ago

Ooooh! Shiny! As a graphics magpie I am extremely attracted to this
Specularity is, of course, a non-realistic shader cheat but this just got less unreal-erer.

Redo

11 years ago

Wow. Look at this realism. I mean.. are we gonna see this car in realtime? I still can't believe it.

Harry Sandhu

11 years ago

Help Plese...
I Put my School on fire but cannot explode its inside.
here is the video....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tvYv6bGgEc

Anonymous

11 years ago

Umm.. was expecting good one.. But hey learn things bro

You will do great

)

azmer

11 years ago

Thank you very much. You Really helped a lot of people, Mr Andrew. I hope you get what you deserve@to be rich, live healthy long and prosper with your loved ones.

Felipe de Jesus Ramos E.

11 years ago

Hi Andrew Kramer, Congratulations on your conference was great friend, I congratulate you ... And I congratulate you for your great creation, and the second version, Element V2 3D, I loved it.
Dude, I have an Nvidia Quadro 600 card, endure the process of the graphs in this new version?

Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico. VIDEO COPILOT... YEAH!!

11 years ago

Amigo esa tarjeta ya esta un poco desactualizada,para utilizar la opci?n de raytracer (openCL) y tiene 1gb de memoria, por precio y soporte en tecnologia raytracer (openCL) te aconsejo la gtx 750 ti tecnologia maxwell, consume lo mismo de energia que la quadro 600 y tiene el mismo precio que su nueva version la quadro K620, pero es mucho mejor la gtx 750 ti, yo tenia una quadro 4000 y ni comparaci?n con la velocidad de esta tarjeta y el costo beneficio. no solo para element 3d si no tambi?n para otras aplicaciones de renderizado por GPU.

Philippe

11 years ago

Can't wait for the V2 to be released! But Andrew, WE NEED some option to get LIGHT WRAP! It's too tricky and time consuming to precomp, duplicate cam etc PLUS, if you move the camera, you have to precomp everything again... If your sorcerer stick can make shadows come true, then I'm sure you guys at VC can add a lightwrap option in the Render Settings tab.

Kevin

11 years ago

Check this out http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/3d_pre-compose_script/.

Krokotak

11 years ago

There is free script by VC for this.

Andrew Zoll

11 years ago

Does their free 3D pre-compose plugin not help with this problem? I'm just asking because I genuinely do not know.

Christian Michael

11 years ago

I think the free plug in genuinely had a few bugs. I tried several times to use it and it kept crashing AE. I read several other users had the exact same issue and as far as I know, it wasn't addressed and an updated version was never released.

Michael

11 years ago

Andrew, it is highly anticipated all the
way from Denmark

) Hurry, hurry, I have
so many ideas I want to try out ;o)

brian

11 years ago

That's brilliant,i was so looking forward for advanced shader like VRAY.So any new feature for human character rig obj sequence stuff like iron man and robot rigs??if not then are you planning this for future?

Bauer

11 years ago

Upgraded and more shiny balls. What else can a man possibly want!

ostapblender

11 years ago

This is just hacking awesome! I think, this version can get competition even for Marmoset.

Oliver

11 years ago

Most important question: Will Element V2.0 be bundled with the "Bad Ass"-Plugin (No Blink)?

Harsimran Singh Sandhu

11 years ago

WOW... Thats Awesome....
Then I will create a new Plane Crash Video... Better Than This One... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmBT8BXrqDs

Elliot

11 years ago

Might want to work more on your visuals and animation buddy.

uwais ahmad

11 years ago

Harsimran Singh have a look at this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RamDiNFWtiA

Carlo

11 years ago

Jaymond , I think they well have a hell of a lot more surprises that's why we love video copilot

Joe

11 years ago

Can you have upcoming tutorials on teach us how to utilize V2 more efficiently?

Carlo

11 years ago

Thanks Andrew My Visa is on my desk and ready to go

can't wait Christmas has come early

Elliot

11 years ago

Eh, Andrew's way better than Santa Claus, I mean look at Andrew, he actually exists. Now I doubt I need to worry about breaking a little kid's heart, there shouldn't be any here....

Jaymond

11 years ago

More control is always a good thing. Have we seen all of the features in v2 now or do you have more surprises up your sleeve?

Andrew Kramer

11 years ago

hehe... what do you think?

Jaymond

11 years ago

I think I'll be pretty disappointed if there's no magic wish-granting genie included in this release

David Nutley

11 years ago

I'm hoping there's an 'Andrew will do this for you' button, similar I guess to your genie button Jayomd.

Kraig

11 years ago

I was praying for a physics engine but to be fair this is already a huge update. Maybe v3?

Elliot

11 years ago

I think Andrew will not tell us half the details of Element version 2. He'll wait till we get settled and we think we know it, then he'll throw a couple tutorials that will blow all of our minds.

Soulfaktor

11 years ago

I went to bed last night thinking about Element 3D V2, I'm so excited at all these features coming...Andrew we appreciate the hard work. Thank you.

R-CANE

11 years ago

Absolutely amazing. Makes me wanna re-render everything I did with 1.6 once I have 2.0 installed. I hope it's coming out early in November.

Adam

11 years ago

Really looking forward to this release! Looks like a great job has been done to improve from the last version.

Carlo

11 years ago

One Word FANTASTIC , Any news on price if not when well we know

Andrew Kramer

11 years ago

Working through all the details still, but we'll have price info and upgrading discount info as soon as it is ready! Dialing in the software and we will have an official release day in November. Rest assured, we are working hard to get everything done!

OlympiaLogger

11 years ago

What I want to know from Andrew is...when are you planning your IPO?

You've done a remarkable job of avoiding Adoughbe's siren's call to the nca abyss.

You're a smart kid with little mouths to feed.
That's all the makin's of a really creative
business that will go far!

Ver. 2.0 is nice...I'm waiting for Ver 10!

isuraj

11 years ago

YOU ARE THE BEST !!!!

Andrew

11 years ago

I'm really looking forwards to this release - so many new features.

Mansooryan

11 years ago

Wow..few days left .. Hope you don't wait until end of November to release it

uwais

11 years ago

Awesome Andrew cant wait to check it out..awesomely incredible.

Washington

11 years ago

Mr Kramer : we're October 30, and I just submitted a motion test for an upcoming prod for which V2 would really be a godsend. It's due to start next week, and I'll be sorry to be stuck with V1 for having worked on it only the first few days. I need a plan.
Please, please... would it be safe to assume that ANIMATION work (NOT materials or rendering/ouptut menu options) done on V1 would port flawlessly on V2 ? thank you in advance.

yacine

11 years ago

nice mr cramer its the future in design 3D we can make the impossible things with our brains
think you for your work you are great www.smcfsa.co.vu

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