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AtomKraft is the interactive 3D toolkit for Adobe After Effects. It is the ultimate fixing tool when you are in the compositing stage. Use the same core tech of its high-end film VFX counterpart AtomKraft/Nuke in your favorite compositing application! AtomKraft works as a replacement for Ae's builtin renderers: it is designed to fully interpret Ae's 3D system and access Ae's 2D image layers. AtomKraft embeds 3Delight, the fast, hybrid REYES/RAYS, offline production render engine. AtomKraft's toolkit minimizes the need of going back to 3D in this stage of the production pipeline by loading (animated) 'assets' straight from Cinema 4D, 3dsmax, Maya, Softimage, Houdini or your favorite 3D applications, such as the new industry standard Alembic (ABC) and Wavefront OBJ, both with support of proxy geometry. High quality sub-pixel displacement mapping through AtomDisplacement can be applied to any geometry, with additional Mudbox/ZBrush VDM support. The Ae material can be textured with AtomTexture. AtomKraft facilitates the tasks of generating 3D environments & matte painting: it introduces in Ae Nuke-style camera/projection mappings through the AtomProjectCamera effect. It allows you to explore tons of creative possibilities developing your looks, lighting & shadowing your assets with HDRI generating both Image-Based Lighting (IBL) & Image-Based shadowing (ambient & environment occlusion) via AtomEnvironment. It supports GI effects such color bleeding with AtomIndirect and all ray tracing effects such as (soft) shadows, (glossy) reflections & refractions in the Ae material. Multiple render channels (Normal, Point, Diffuse, Specular, Shadows etc.) are available via AtomOutputChannel. AtomKraft is fully integrated to support the easy workflow Ae users have come to expect, at a fraction of the price of its big brother.