klingspor
01-20-2009, 06:21 PM
(To the mods: Please feel free to delete this message if you consider this SPAM - it's just an offer to After Effects users in the Mac community!)
Some of you might remember my After Effects plug-in Normality (http://www.minning.de/software/normality/) for relighting scenes in AE. This software has been available for free for the Windows platform for some time now and will continue to be so.
Since then I have gotten a lot of requests to port the plug-in to the Mac - there seems to be a large and active After Effects community on the Mac side of the pond that would also like to use my plug-in in their projects.
But as I don't own an Apple computer (and have no personal reason to buy one) I cannot port the plug-in at the moment - and with it being free and all, there's not much of an incentive for me to buy a Mac just for the purpose of porting the software.
However, I am willing to port Normality to Mac OS X and release the plug-in for free if I can gather the funds needed to purchase a lower-end Intel Mac.
If you're willing to donate towards this purpose, please follow the link to minning.de (http://www.minning.de/software/normality/) and click "Donate".
As for the maths... the cheapest Intel iMac is 999€. So if 20 Mac users donate as little as 50€ each, Normality will be ported to Mac OS X. That's less than most other After Effects plug-ins cost and seems very reasonable to me for having a custom software development done.
After all, there's not much in it for me since I have no real use for a Mac.
If you have any questions or suggestions, let me know!
Some of you might remember my After Effects plug-in Normality (http://www.minning.de/software/normality/) for relighting scenes in AE. This software has been available for free for the Windows platform for some time now and will continue to be so.
Since then I have gotten a lot of requests to port the plug-in to the Mac - there seems to be a large and active After Effects community on the Mac side of the pond that would also like to use my plug-in in their projects.
But as I don't own an Apple computer (and have no personal reason to buy one) I cannot port the plug-in at the moment - and with it being free and all, there's not much of an incentive for me to buy a Mac just for the purpose of porting the software.
However, I am willing to port Normality to Mac OS X and release the plug-in for free if I can gather the funds needed to purchase a lower-end Intel Mac.
If you're willing to donate towards this purpose, please follow the link to minning.de (http://www.minning.de/software/normality/) and click "Donate".
As for the maths... the cheapest Intel iMac is 999€. So if 20 Mac users donate as little as 50€ each, Normality will be ported to Mac OS X. That's less than most other After Effects plug-ins cost and seems very reasonable to me for having a custom software development done.
After all, there's not much in it for me since I have no real use for a Mac.
If you have any questions or suggestions, let me know!