We’ve recently run a crowdfunding campaign to develop and improve the Rainbox Open Tools: new free and open source tools for film and animation production.

The campaign has ended in June, and we’ve raised 26.000€, 185% of the initial goal, which means we’re now able to develop very advanced tools!

There are a lot of things we can and we want to develop. What we’re going to achieve depends primarily on how much we have raised during this crowdfunding campaign. We’ve reached the level III, which means most of the features will be developed, and just a few more advanced tools will be more difficult or take more time to develop, those which were planned at level IV.

DuShape: Expand shapes and masks capabilities in After Effects

We’ll need to reach the second level of our crowdfunding campaign to begin the development of DuShape.

Expand shapes and masks capabilities in After Effects: Bézier rigging tools, Tapered and 3D Strokes, with nice brushes as an option, transform and mirror tools for Bézier paths…

Platforms:
– After Effects/Windows
– After Effects/Mac OS

It also includes DuStroke, a parametric brush tool to use with Bézier paths.

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Don’t hesitate to use the comments below if you have any suggestion. We’re open to all ideas! These will be your tools too, so let’s shape them together!