I'm working the show floor here at NAB (with wondertouch software), and I had a chance to talk with Zax Dow about his new AE plug-in "3D Warps." http://zaxwerks.com/3dwarps/index.shtml I haven't had a chance to try it out myself, but this could potentially bring about the end to the age-old question - "How do I make 3D ribbons in AE?" It looks like Zaxwerks 3D warps may be the answer. Hopefully they'll have some examples of this on the site soon. Keep your eyes open for this monumental plugin. Another cool thing coming out shortly is Digital Anarchy's plug-in: ToonIt! That's right - converting video to cartoon!! It looks really good. I'm going to take a little credit here (but only a tiny little bit) because I introduced the team who created the technology for this to Digital Anarchy so that it could be developed as a plug-in for AE. You can read more about the plug-in here: http://www.digitalanarchy.com/press/press_main.html If you haven't seen Digital Anarchy's stuff - you shoud check it out. A lot of good tools there. Also, I only caught a glimpse of it, but Peder Norby (Trapcode) demo'd the Alpha of his new project - "flux" - what appears to be a fluid generator for AE - I only caught a glimps becasue I'm working the show floor, but it appears to be for AE what Fluid Effects were for Maya. Again, I didn't see much - because I had to get back to work - but it looked pretty fricken cool. One last note on Trapcode: Peder, if you're reading this - it's time to update your picture, man... You look way different in person. Keep up the good work. | 
