• Adobe After Effects

  Alien Skin Eye Candy

  Posted by Steven J casey on July 3, 2005 at 5:33 pm

  I searched the posts for reviews of this software but didn’t find anything. Anyone use this and is it highly recommended? Places on the web have it marked down from around $500 to <$100. Just wondering if that means it's not that great or if it's an incredible deal. Thanks! Steven J

  Ron Lindeboom replied 20 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Filip Vandueren

  July 3, 2005 at 10:48 pm

  Alien Skin Eye candy is a collection of effects that IMHO were allready out of style in 1999 🙂

  The only thing it’s still got going for it is the Bevel and Carve effects, if you need them.
  Kind-of okay are swirl, smoke and fire,
  And Squint is still pretty cool IMO.

  All the other filters are either very ugly (chrome, Fur, star, weave),
  or can be done with effects in Ae 6.5 pro if you have it.
  (Gaussian Blur, Antimatter, Cut-out, Glass, Glow, HSB Noise, Jiggle, perspective shadow)

  So take a good look at the Bevels and see if they’re worth it :
  there are some examples still on the site @
  https://www.alienskin.com/ecae/ecae_effects.html
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  Steven J casey

  July 4, 2005 at 12:26 am

  Thanks for the reply Filip, you’ve confirmed what I’ve been thinking today as I was trying to find more info on the web. I’m completely new to AE so didn’t know if 6.5 had most of this included already. Eventually I realized the only reviews available were from ~2000 or earlier, therefore the software is probably passe. (and were those demos on the Alien Skin website something special at one time? they look awful to me)

  Thanks again for your assistance.
  Steven J
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  Ron Lindeboom

  July 4, 2005 at 12:30 am

  They are also easily the slowest AE plug-ins I ever used and so I quit using them about five years ago.

  Slow and cheesy do not a classic set of plug-ins make…

  Ron Lindeboom

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