AlphaPlugins, manufacturer of popular software for After Effects, Photoshop and many other well-known graphic editors has developed a new free of charge plug-in for After Effects AlphaPlugins FirTree.
This filter is really useful for perfecting your Christmas or New-Year videos. With its help you are able to grow a fairy-tale fir-tree, animate it and make its many needles opalesce in the sun.

AlphaPlugins FirTree allows to create truly realistic fir boughs as well as fairy, fantastic trees possessing quite expressive and complex animation.
All the animation and drawing processes are very easy to set up and have intuitive interface.
A beginner designer as well as a professional can work with AlphaPlugins FirTree. The program allows to set up the shape of the tree, the length, density and shape of its needles, and animate the tree’s growth process, its swaying with the wind and many other aspects.

AlphaPlugins FirTree allows to set the material of which the tree is made. You can create truly realistic fir boughs as well as non-existent in the real life trees. For example, they can be made of glass and deflect the background image and shine with sparkles. You can experiment with the play of light. That would be the final touch to your composition.

This plug-in is absolutely free of charge. You can download the AlphaPlugins FirTree Windows version from the designer’s site at www.alphaplugins.com.
The product capabilities and examples of its usage are detailed at the product’s web-page at http://www.alphaplugins.com/products/products.php?menu=get_prod_id&prod_id=9&p_menustate=.

AlphaPlugins will offer another free filter for After Effects as an addition to this plug-in in the near future – it’s the NewYear Toy. It would help you to decorate your fir-tree, would impart inimitable beauty to it, and you and your friends and your customers will enjoy wonderful holiday spirit.

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