Canvas 360 Pro Unifies 360 Post Production in After Effects

After Effects recently acquired the SkyBox plugins from Mettle, and are now Adobe’s solution for 360 and VR tools within After Effects. This will be a big help for 360 and VR authors and post production folks who work with After Effects. There is another new(ish) tool that aims to simplify and unify VR and 360 workflows in After Effects. It’s called Canvas 360 Pro.

Canvas 360 Pro is a complement to Adobe Skybox and Mocha VR. It is meant to unify After Effects workflows in 360  post production work. Likely were have reached peak meta when third party developers are making plugins that sit onto of other plugins and make them better. Seems unruly in my opinion; yet here we are.

In any case, the Canvas 360 Pro plugin introduced new workflows that are meant to simplify VR 360? post production. The plugin can import and export camera data from other application that you might be using in your work, like Cinema 4D, Unity, Maya, Nuke, etc. 360 Pro was built to work with your current setup.

Think of the plugin as a workflow tool within After Effects enabling users the ability to composite 360? footage/renders together with traditional After Effects layers and non-360? footage/renders.