Gaussian Splatting

This plugin allows you to import, manipulate and render 3D Gaussian Splatting (.ply) files inside After Effects in real-time with GPU.

Import Splats (.ply)

trained with any software

Features

Import .ply files in After Effects.
Crop with Spherical or Box shape.
Crop with Y Plane.
Combine up to 5 models in the scene.
Colorize with Ramp using Spherical or Box shape.
Reveal model with Opacity Ramp.
Animate Splat Scale with Spherical or Box shape.
Each model can be distorted with Noise.
Render Depth Pass for 3D compose.

Align Model

Align the model to the center of the scene, and orient it horizontally.

Crop

Crop scene with Sphere or Box and Y Plane.

This scene is created by @makotofalcon with Luma AI

Noise

Use Noise to distort models to reveal effects.

Effects

Animate your scene with built-in tools.

This scene is created by @FrancLucent with Luma AI

Colorize Splats

Colorise with Ramp over spherical map.

Splats Scale

Animate Splats size with Ramp And Spherical or Box map to make spectacular reveals.

Splats Opacity

Set Opacity to Splats with Ramp.

Splats Displacement

Animate Splats size with Ramp And Spherical or Box map to make spectacular reveals.

Combine multiple ply scans

Use up to 5 models in scene.

In this scene Yoda is created by @makotofalcon with Luma AI, cherry blossom by @wy with Polycam, and clouds by @JocularGlacier2850 with Polycam

FAQ

What is Gaussian Splatting?

Gaussian Splatting is a rasterization technique that allows real-time rendering of photorealistic scenes from small samples of images.

How to create Gaussian Splats?

You can create Splats from recorded video with your phone or camera. Turn on video recording, walk around the object or scene from different heights and angles.

1Create a Gaussian splatting by using a mobile app like Polycam or Luma.

2Create a Gaussian splatting in your PC on GPU with PostShot or NerfStudio.

3Create a Gaussian splatting on device with Lidar using the app Scaniverse.

How to create and export Splats with LumaAI from desktop

YYou can create Splats from recorded video with your phone or camera. Turn on video recording, walk around the object or scene from different heights and angles.

Open lumalabs.ai
Go to Captures and click on create
Upload your recorded video and wait about 30 minutes until training is done.
After the training process is over, open your scan and click on the "Download" icon.
In the dialog menu choose "Gaussian Splat".

Note:

You can either upload a normal/fisheye/equirectangular video or a zip of videos
You can upload images in zip file.
Maximum the size of the video or zip file can be 5 gigabytes

Get Gaussian Splatting

Compatible with AE versions CC and later on PC and Mac