Fast Draft not working

@SternFX and @Rene Andritsch - What color depth is your project set to? If not 8-bpc, please change it to 8-bpc.

In further discussion with one of our developers, he let me know that at 16- and 32-bpc, artifacting/garbage like the screenshots you've both posted is possible. We're still working on solving this; it won't be fixed in the Beta in the near future. Until then, please work in 8-bpc with the Fast Draft renderer.

( @SternFX , this is probably the actual cause of your problem. Your system specs overlapped with the other problem we were investigating on Windows Nvidia configurations. In those cases, the Fast Draft 3D engine draws nothing, i.e. black. That doesn't seem to be the case for you but we got your case confused with the Nvidia/DirectX issue.)

Good news, @SternFX! Our developers investigated this yesterday and we believe we have a fix. It will be available in build 34 of After Effects Beta (17.5.1.34) or later, which should be coming in the next day or two. Please install the new build when it's available, test Fast Draft again, and let us know if the fix worked.

Under the hood: the Fast Draft 3D engine was expecting a specific DirectX DLL file to be present on the system. This DLL is, apparently, very common but not universal to all Windows Nvidia installs. This DLL is not actually necessary for the Fast Draft 3D engine to run, it's only useful for debugging, so we've simply disabled the requirement for this DLL.

I just tried the feature and have a similar result with an imported EXR file.
Mac OS 1015.7 | AE 17.5.1.33
MacBook Pro (15 Inch, 2018) | 2,9 GHz Intel Core i9 | 32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 | Radeon Pro 560X 4096 MB | Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB

Hi @SternFX!
Can you please share your hardware specs? Specifically your OS + version and GPU + driver. Thanks!