YFilm Glass
Liquid glass for After Effects: any shape, text or logo becomes a slab of glass that bends, frosts and splits the picture below it, with a lit rim.
Draw a shape, turn on its Adjustment Layer switch and apply YFilm Glass. Everything under the layer is now seen through glass in that shape: the rounded edge bends the picture inward, light catches the rim from the angle you set, thick glass splits colours into a rainbow fringe, and frost turns it into a soft panel.
The effect finds the outline by itself and follows it while you edit and animate the shape, text or mask. Fifteen looks, from clear glass to a prism, a magnifier and smoked glass, set every control in one click.
- Works on shape layers, text, logos, PNGs, precomps and masks. The layer's outline is the glass.
- Look menu with 15 looks: Clear Glass, Clean Refraction, Frosted, Frosted Panel, Prism, Edge Light Only, Magnifier, Bubble, Thin Text Glass, Blue Text Glass, Bright Edge, Deep Glass, Thick Lens, Pink Glow and Smoked Glass.
- Glass: refraction, depth of the rounded edge, dispersion, frost and splay.
- Light: angle and intensity of the lit rim, with a soft gloss inside the edge and a darker side away from the light.
- Magnify and magnify falloff, effect scale, rim scale, and tint with Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Color and Normal modes.
- Sets itself up on an adjustment layer and follows your shape as you edit and animate it. Every control can be keyframed.
- After Effects: AE 2022 or later on macOS 11+ (Apple Silicon and Intel). 8, 16 and 32 bpc.
- Layers: Works on 2D layers. Shape layers need a fill; precompose 3D glass for now.