Andrew Yang has made a new Pixel Bender plugin for After Effects called YY Hex Tex and all it does is make hexagons. That may seem like a very limited feature set but when you need hexagons, this is your plug-in! As it says on the plug-in’s aescripts.com page, it’s great for motion graphics and HUD designs. You can set and animate the effect’s anchor point (creating up and down or side to side motion), the size of the hexagons, the thickness of the border around them, angle, color, etc. You can also invert the alpha so you’re left with just the hexagons themselves, or their border. Very nice. No, it’s not free, but you can name your own price. Click here to check it out.
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