Introduction

Curves are a very versatile and precise color correction tool. The native After Effects version lacks control and accuracy to take full advantage of it. Fresh Curves makes up for these drawbacks so you can get the most out of this basic tool.

More control

More channels
Fresh Curves has brightness, saturation and hue channels for more direct control on top of the usual RGBA.

Relative Curves
Now it’s possible to adjust on attributes based on another. Relative Curves also has a built-in preblur and a postblur curve.

Bezier cubic splines
with tangent handles for more curve control. Interpolation modes similar to the ones in the AE graph editor round things off.

Invert Curves
Using invert you can work in your own color space. Apply your custom “gamma curve”, do the work and apply and the inverted one.

More accuracy

Histogramm
The integrated histograms helps you find and modify desired areas and gives feedback to your changes.

Interface
Tired of that old, tiny interface? Here is a big, nice resizeable one.

Zoom tools
will come in handy for those out of range float colors or when fiddeling with details.

Edit and sample
Need to be precise? Just edit or sample your values. And change the color range to what you are comfortable with.

ZbornToy

Our debut product is made to lead a line of tools that introduce a new meaning to depth in compositing. The ZbornToy has the ability to extract a maximum of information out of simple depth images and allows you to not only light and texture them, but to refract backgrounds, cast caustic reflection back onto the background and a whole lot more.  

The design of ZbornToy has the amount of parameters reduced to a minimum, while still providing a vast amount of control over every aspect of it. The goal has been to achieve the performance and feel of a full blown render engine when it comes to the results. Yet it is ment to be not only easily accessible, but fast and fluent so that it is fun and even playful to use. 

Lighting supports shadows and soft shadows and is kept within the plugin for a maximum portability to other compositing packages that support after effects plugins. Sources of light are by means of a direct light, a point light and environmental illumination. The environmental illumination is based on panoramic or spherical maps. It includes occlusion approximations and independent reflection settings. The reflection is directly tied together with the shading section and gets diffused and colored according the surface definitions. 

The shading section offers a set of innovations that simplify the shading process dramatically, while keeping the look of the surfaces stunningly coherent. For example, defining the glossiness of a surface requires nothing more than to dial or texture the glossiness parameter. Everything related to the look of a glossy surface automatically responds accordingly based on both mathematical and artistic understanding of the required process. The amount of paramters is destilled down to a minimum while maintaining a maximum of flexibility to easily create all sorts of materials ranging from the usual plastics over metal to particularely skin, supporting translucency in the easiest to use ways ever.

And all of the above is computing practically at realtime. Taking advantage of After Affect’s adaptive previews, you can dial in your paramters and adjust lighting and textures while looking at the results. We are very used to having medium resolution renders (800×800) done within 1 to 3 seconds per frame.

A final quality section allows for high profile results through a set of innovations in reading and projecting refractions and alternative oversampling options.