Exploring After Effects 2025's AMAZING New 3D Workflow!

[@JustinSerranDigital]

What do you think about After Effects 2025's new 3D workflow? Is this a game-changer for motion graphics or just a small step forward? Let me know your thoughts below!

[@veezybombay]

Gameeeee changer!!

[@JustinSerranDigital]

@ it really is!

[@AndresArosemena]

very cool for simple models to make motion graphics into real footage. But to make it look realistic for vfx shots it still has a long way to go

[@JustinSerranDigital]

@@AndresArosemena that’s a valid take! Thanks for watching

[@AndresArosemena]

@@JustinSerranDigital sure! I hope it continues to get better!

[@MarcosOliveira-fs7hn]

Great video 🙏🏽

[@AdamTolley-t7w]

All of these negative comments... This was an excellent video showcasing some great new features. Thank you!

[@JustinSerranDigital]

Hahah I really appreciate that! Thanks for watching 👊🏻💪🏻

[@TheLillid]

Great video - Thanks for sharing. New features are great.

[@wenglerlion]

Thank you for the content

[@JustinSerranDigital]

of course! glad you enjoy it.

[@parintinsnow]

Congratulations. Best . More one subscriber

[@HS-eq3gk]

thanks for the video

[@digantaray2028]

awesome video , such clarity provided in a very clear and understanable way

[@how2ae]

What I need in AE right now: - native seamless support of blender and c4d files - rocket fast UI (fix annoying window resizes) - GPU render for whole project not only particular effects While the AE team is still trying 3d workflow to start working as it should years ago.. I suppose they'd better find brand new team and create the new AE from scratch. It's a pain to insert something inside this old monster

[@abeblue]

or... you just do everything inside blender (you can) lol

[@alexbogdan7885]

@@abeblue no, in Houdini!

[@motionsam]

The latest big updates where coming from videocopilot years ago.... And even they stuck with "Nebula" plugin development.

[@HS-eq3gk]

eh..i think expecting native blender import is pretty crazy lol the rest is real though

[@joaquinrodriguez2786]

AMAZINGGG THANKS

[@Heryantos]

So many tutorial and trying, but this is what I really need. So many thanks Bro.... Good Job

[@Studio23creation]

element3D still looks better

[@KevinBoneau-g7h]

These effects are awesome!!

[@JustinSerranDigital]

@@KevinBoneau-g7h glad you like em dude!

[@tammyserran3965]

Great effects, so cool!

[@JustinSerranDigital]

@@tammyserran3965 thanks for watching!

[@gdayfrank]

great video, mate. Saved it for later 👌

[@FutureVisionAudiovisual]

Nice explication !

[@JustinSerranDigital]

Thank you! thanks for watching!

[@mauroangst]

They are taking steps in the right direction but there’s still a long way to go if they want people to achieve realistic results. Some next steps could be adding more realistic light sources and supporting features like volumetric lighting, PBR materials and global illumination

[@JustinSerranDigital]

Well put! Thanks for watching

[@Studio23creation]

element 3D (after efects plugin) still exist since 8 or 10 years and is doing a much btter job?

[@tracycobey9776]

This is going to be so useful and helpful when editing

[@JustinSerranDigital]

It’s changing my life currently lol 😅 thanks for watching Tracy

[@richiegoosh]

So cool man!🔥🔥🔥

[@JustinSerranDigital]

Thanks Rich! got some cool ways to implement this with skating footage. Appreciate you as always!

[@drewwalpole5344]

Definitely a game-changer!

[@JustinSerranDigital]

You’re telling me!

[@tedeusz83]

after 10 years not even close to Element3D - long live Andrew Kramer xDD

[@JustinSerranDigital]

Andrew Kramer is the goat aha! Video Copilot taught me so much back in the day lol

[@synriser6742]

Yes, babysteps.

[@JustinSerranDigital]

@ on our way!

[@manicpanda8741]

I couldn't agree more :D

[@alloneword154]

Thanks

[@JustinSerranDigital]

@@alloneword154 no problem! Thanks for watching

[@ouiolliemovementlaboetie3975]

Thank you so much, such a simple explanation for something super complex and the result is so cool! BUT.....the shadow of my object always have some square angle finish, like a bad mask around the solid layer? what can I do?

[@saywanazad]

It helps, thanks

[@JustinSerranDigital]

@@saywanazad love to hear it! Thanks for watching

[@247FilmMaker]

Really cool, def going to speed some things up. I am guessing no texture editing/changing abilities on the GLB files yet in AE?

[@JustinSerranDigital]

@@247FilmMaker not yet from what I know, you’d have to adjust it in adobe substance 3D rn. Thanks for watching tho!

[@lega_xyz]

I don't think it's ready for a VFX 3D workflow, but it's a step forward. I see it mostly used for stylelized 3D motion graphics type work for now.

[@JustinSerranDigital]

fair take! Thanks for watching.

[@kipkipful]

yeha photorealism looks like SHIT lmao

[@arielsalin]

muy bueno, gracias :)

[@JustinSerranDigital]

De nada wey! Gracias por verlo 👊🏻🤘🏻

[@Dcs90]

Super convenient! 😮

[@JustinSerranDigital]

@@Dcs90 unbelievably convenient!

[@DHDH-i9d]

Hey ! Thanks for the video. My shadows are super soft unlike your example (the shoe, the car) Any tips ?

[@njsmithpro]

Shadow catchers are a pretty cool addition to AE

[@JustinSerranDigital]

Agreed!

[@TheCriminal24]

you're so amazing

[@markojotovic8991]

AE + Sora = end of the game

[@JustinSerranDigital]

Elaborate please aha!

[@abeblue]

@@JustinSerranDigital easy -> you do a clonky fast 3D shit on ae, you go to sora to magnify

[@anasosama7558]

quick question, what if i got more than one element in GLB file , how to separate them ?

[@JustinSerranDigital]

I believe you'd need to set them up separately in Adobe Substance, or other 3D Modelling software first. Hopefully soon we can do all this in AE! Thanks for watching.

[@sagar18484]

try blender than export again as glb

[@FlippedNormal]

Element 3d has been available for after effects for over a decade. I'll always use an actual 3d program instead of ae.

[@EpicMotion-Studios]

amazing new feature, do you mind leaving the project file in the desc or comment section, it will be helpful :D.

[@JustinSerranDigital]

I’ll try and remember to save a test working file for the next tutorial! Good idea. Thanks for watching.

[@JE-sb6sp]

CRAZY

[@JustinSerranDigital]

Not bad eh??

[@mackyfulness]

But can you render them quick enough before your setup turns int o L.A?

[@JustinSerranDigital]

@@mackyfulness yea render times are relatively normal in my experience now

[@theRingMaster1609]

That's really great ! Now I can FINALLY make baby yoda kick superman's arse in after effects without going in blender and waiting a whole century for it to render. Quick question tho, can we change texture and material settings as well? Because I noticed that the car looked a little more shiney than I'd like it to be.

[@Y2kfilmsbkk]

what about motion Blur how will it works?

[@JustinSerranDigital]

It works similar to how it usually works in After Effects. Since the movement in all these scenes was minimal, I didn’t bother. Should have mentioned it in the tutorial tho! Thanks for watching!

[@Ολεχ]

👍👍👍

[@OliSavageBeatz]

Pleas more Like that❤

[@JustinSerranDigital]

Will do! Got an exciting tutorial similar to this coming soon.

[@OliSavageBeatz]

@JustinSerranDigital yeaaa🫶 Subet liket

[@Megatuning-f8w]

Hi i have after effects 24.2.1 but i import 3d model and not showing i dont now why

[@Sindrsus]

What do you think about incorporating AI-made footage in the After Effect workflow? Are you positive about using AI-made footage and then using it as material for After Effects? I am thinking about Adobe's own video generator (Firefly), OpenAI's SORA, and DeepMind's Veo, or other video generators.

[@JustinSerranDigital]

Could be a cool approach

[@arenyart]

Please add 5.1 audio support!

[@felixgeen6543]

After effects adds Element 3D 10 years later. I guess we know why they called it after effects. The effects come way after you needed them.

[@ukmonk]

Great video thank you! This is awesome for some people who are still using element 3D for their 3D/AE workflow. And wow lots of naysayers in the comments, bet they are fun @ parties! 😂, some people just love to kill the vibe eh? I just ignore the idiots, best way to deal with them. Don’t answer them and they go away pretty quick.

[@to6135]

For the 15th year in a row "the Adobe new version" is supposed to do fast renders and yet all I saw was a grainy proxy render not even close to a client review let alone a final product. So if a youtuber can't finish a shot on a decent level of quality how could someone in a production? The pattern is the same every year and yet a single file playback is an impossibility for this "game changer".

[@JustinSerranDigital]

@@to6135 take a deep breath brotha! All is well 🙏🏻

[@to6135]

@@JustinSerranDigital hey sorry I’m just super frustrated cos adobe is a shitty company that I spent thounsands of dollars on and they kept promising things that other software developers have done for years and adobe is still the windows movie maker of the 2020s :D

[@batouchemohamedmehdi5325]

Am an after effects user from 2008 since videocopilot was a hype , can you imagine 17 years getting by and still up to date rendering 3d is a struggle ,no volumetric lighting…. That is like apple phones, where they give you the simplest tweak from an android phone only 20 years later for no fuckin reason ! Am 30 years old mate , waisted my 20s tryina wait for adobe to make some major updates . Hopefully i switched to other 3d apps .Ae is jut a 2d animation workdesk nothing more they can shove the 3d capabilities somewhere

[@gurkenschnitzel3905]

It is a small step... And as long is has that primitive lightning ... It's a beta. But I love it

[@zakirali8721]

its nice that AE added this feature. but na. the final result isnt that convincing compared to what vfx from a 3D render brings. can be used in stylized motion graphics etc

[@arenyart]

Now if they would just add a setting between 50% and 100% when using the mouse wheel to set viewport scale.

[@dougalias]

Anyone serious about compositing is not gonna use this. Blender or Cinema4d is still the way to go.

[@rubenscheer]

Nice if you want to play around with 3d, but definitely not for high-end 3d renders, which most of the users will use 3d for. And After effects for just post production.

[@HS-eq3gk]

when are they adding the ability to zoom in on the viewport with some accuracy lmao

[@isanarditama]

interesting

[@Halllbert]

EXR sequence render way too slow. Go switching to fusion

[@Jsitez]

good but the textures always come out looking bad...

[@SUVO_RAW]

AE for 3D 😂good luck

[@Altruist672]

there is just starting 3d workflow

[@TooXiiKEU1]

everything you showed can be done in Ae 2024 nothing new tbh

[@MrStrangesound]

I think cinema 4d is way better. After is just for compositing or motion graphics

[@Upwqrd]

Just get davinci for it its much better

[@mostafaelgammal]

Element 3D still Better !

[@triem23]

AE 2025 catches up to Hitfilm in 2012. Of course Hitfilm is dead now, so Adobe gets the last laugh, but I do wonder why it took Adobe so long to do this.

[@earlstudios]

oh man....Hitfilm....I'm so old I remeber alamdv. such great days.

[@triem23]

@earlstudios I didn't go back that far... Sadly, today is the day the FXhome website went offline. RIP FXhome.

[@757CBV]

Seems like blender caused this update

[@JustinSerranDigital]

Haha very possibly! What makes you say that?

[@CineloverBD_YouTube_channel]

element 3d is better then this.

[@Cola-42]

Sorry buddy, this looks worse than what was made in the 80s. By the time they make a good render engine for it, the world would have switched to AI.

[@JustinSerranDigital]

Hope all is well on your end man! This doesn’t strike me as a comment made by someone particularly happy. I’m just trynna report on adobes newest tools. If you don’t like them, don’t use them ❤👊🏻

[@chamathzoysa]

Then just report it. Why ur doing click bait shit. "Hyper realistic" LMAO

[@PolymerJones]

lol I’m with OP this is 80s campy ; still neat tho

[@l4gerardo]

10 years to late

[@JustinSerranDigital]

@@l4gerardo better late than never!

[@kipkipful]

there are multiple workflows for VFX that also include after effects for what it does well, After effects would have to be rebuilt from zero, during long years to reach de 3d capabilities of even something like blender al these renders look exceptionally bad, and don't get offended like in the other comments, i'm not talking about you, but about the software

[@JustinSerranDigital]

😂😂😂

[@JustinSerranDigital]

Re read the comments. No one was getting offended. Simply pointing out that criticism that isn’t constructive typically comes from a place of not feeling great about yourself. You’re free to feel however you’d like about the software. Thanks for watching, and engaging dude ❤🙏🏻

[@youtubechannnel]

the riil Gamer Changing, bye others 3D software

[@TheThebeep]

I'm not impressed. I guess it will take another decade for Adobe to reach the level of Element 3d plugin.

[@mosquedadavid]

Lame ......... sub par ....... Not a pro tool at all.... how about you try adding a colour correction or a blur to the 3d layer....... Clunky workflow!!!!

[@JustinSerranDigital]

Is everything alright at home man? 😅 me reporting on new adobe tools to show the workflow shouldn’t get you this worked up. Hope all is well 🙏🏻❤️

[@mosquedadavid]

@ all good. Adobe just grind my gears. They should really do better given the size f the company.

[@JustinSerranDigital]

@ understood aha! Have a good one.

[@HikingWithCooper]

@@mosquedadavidGood point. Also the sub fees. I don’t think there’s anything here that can’t be done in free/cheap Fusion. Have to learn AE for a possible job 🤢

[@jahhe2611]

Honestly that rendering looks terrible, you could do the exact same thing inside blender with a much better lighting/render quality..

[@DwindleFlip]

There is nothing new about this. It's not a game changer. This is dumb.