Gabriel Parente
A render made with the plugin: sheets and ribbons of fine particles folding through the dark, soft with depth of field.

Closed beta

I’ve made a particle plugin for After Effects, and I need help breaking it.

I’ve been working in motion design and editing since 2009. This is the first plugin I’ve made.

It’s a 3D particle engine, and it’s nearly finished. I’d rather a few motion designers found the problems now than everyone finding them at once.

What you get

  • A free lifetime license when the beta ends. Not a trial and not a cut-down version — the same plugin I’ll be selling.
  • Working with something that isn’t out yet, before anyone else has it.
  • The group is small enough that what you say can change the plugin. I’d rather make what you need than what I thought you needed.
  • When something breaks there’s no ticket system and no support tier. It comes to me, and I answer every one.
  • Your name on the product page and in the plugin, if you want it there.

How it works

Each new build goes up on your own beta page, and I’ll email you when there’s one; the plugin’s Check for Updates button takes you straight there. You can reply to any of my emails and it comes to me. It runs until I stop finding things to fix, not until a date on the calendar.

What matters most is that you use it. Not on a schedule and not for a set number of hours — just often enough that you run into things.

No reports to write, nothing to record. When something breaks, a button in the plugin grabs what I need — your system, your After Effects version, every setting in the plugin, even the frame you’re on. Tell me what went wrong in one sentence and hit Send.

About me

vimeo.com/gabrielparente

Motion design and editing since 2009, in Brazil and abroad. I work in After Effects every day, and I made this plugin because I wanted to use it myself.

There’s no studio or company behind this. It’s just me. That’s why I can reply quickly, and it’s also why I want people using it before it comes out.

Count me in

Four short questions. I’ll reply to everyone within a few days either way, and if it doesn’t work out this time I’ll let you know when the plugin is out.

3. Windows or Mac? Which version of After Effects?

I’ll use what you send only to choose the testers and to write to you about the plugin.