r/AfterEffects

32 of my After Effects scripts are online for free (MIT), plus a page that bundles just the ones you want into a single toolbar
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32 of my After Effects scripts are online for free (MIT), plus a page that bundles just the ones you want into a single toolbar

Most of these exist because I got tired of doing the same thing by hand for the hundredth time and wrote a script instead. They piled up, so I finally stuck them on a site. Everything's free and MIT, so you can open them, change them, use them in paid work, whatever you want.

What makes it less of a mess than the usual "here's a bunch of loose scripts" is something I called Build-a-bar. You tick the ones you actually want, hit download, and you get a zip with one responsive, fast, scriptui dockable panel (icon button per script) plus only those scripts. So your Window menu doesn't turn into a wall of scripts, it's just one panel with your picks. Drop it in ScriptUI folder, restart AE, done.

Each one also has a docs page if you want to see exactly what it does before installing.

Full list:

Animation & rigging

- Limb-a-tron: two-segment IK/FK limb rig. Drag one null to bend it, bake it out when you're happy.

- Linearizer: drive existing keyframed animation off any slider, position, or rotation value.

- PathMaster: stick a layer's position on a shape path and retime/re-ease/loop it.

Composition

- Guiderator: type a number (or a formula like 1920/2) and it drops the guide there.

- Slidotron 16x9 / 9x16: one-click horizontal or vertical slide-reveal rigs with mirrored mattes.

Effects, color & audio

- BurstMate: drops in a rigged radial stroke burst you can dial in (color, length, density, decay).

- ChromaBlenderizer: ramp a color range across selected fills, strokes, and effect colors.

- Sync-o-tron: make any property audio-reactive in a click.

- sfxMaster: run Voice Over / SFX / Music off three master sliders, audio auto-sorted into groups.

Keyframes

- Elast-o-matic: adds elastic overshoot or a gravity bounce after a keyframe.

- KeyBot: batch-edit selected keyframe values with = + - x / per axis.

- KeyCloneMatic: repeat a keyframe set down the timeline, fixed or decaying interval.

- Valuatron: stamp a key at the playhead for every selected property at once.

Layers

- Controllerizer: pull selected properties from a bunch of layers onto one control null via expressions.

- NullBot: parent a group of layers to one null at their average position.

- Opac-o-bot: basically parenting but for Opacity, via expression.

- OrderMaster: reverse or shuffle the stacking order of layers or shape groups.

- Parent-o-bot: blend a layer's Position/Scale/Rotation/Opacity toward up to two parents.

- Rectangulator: turn a parametric rectangle into a real bezier shape with per-corner rounding.

- Reseterator: zero out the transform origin on selected layers (anchor to 0,0,0).

- SubtitleForge: builds a caption rig, text plus a self-sizing box with stroke and shadow.

- TextMate: highlight every case-sensitive match of a word in a text layer.

- TimeWarp-a-tron: drive Time Remap off a 0-100 slider over an in/out range you set.

Paths & shapes

- Centralizer: drops center + bounding-box guides around shapes, images, or precomps, works on multiselect.

- Distributron: spread a comp's layers along a shape path, each rotating to follow the curve.

- Originator: recenter a shape path's origin on (0,0) so it scales and rotates the way you'd expect.

- Trace-o-matic: turn a layer's masks into a shape layer with hold-keyframed paths.

- VertexMaster: convert a bezier path's vertices/tangents into nulls you can key and parent.

Utilities

- Iteratron: spread a property evenly across a stack of layers between a start and end value.

- RandoMatic: replace selected keyframe values with fresh random numbers, per-axis range.

- Triminator: slap a pre-keyframed 0-100% Trim Paths reveal on a shape layer.

Ping me if any issues surface - those were all personal tools, so bugs may exist :)

u/igusin — 5 hours ago
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I made an audio-reactive pointcloud system

Little excerpts of me playing my chaotic pointcloud system, in which the particles are being audioreactive to the incoming audio signal in real-time. What do you guys think?

More experiments, project files, and tutorials, through my YouTubeInstagram, or Patreon.

u/Chuka444 — 12 hours ago

How can I create a shutter effect

I'm fairly new to After Effects, but I do have some previous experience with TouchDesigner, although I'm not particularly experienced with that either.
I've taught myself how to use both programs, so I often find it difficult to build on or modify effects because I'm not always sure what the best approach is or what to do.

I'm currently trying to create a kind of shutter effect for a video. Is something like this possible to make in After Effects, and if so, how would you go about it?

Thanks in advance for any replies and for any help or advice you can offer!

u/Puzzled-Recover-6118 — 6 hours ago

No work for a while, critique my reel please?

Work has been dead now for 2 months and I'm open to changing my strategy; starting with my reel. Any thoughts are welcome, thanks for watching!

u/Deep_Mango8943 — 9 hours ago

My first motion illustration , Please give me feedback.

Illustrated in Illustrator, animated in After Effects

u/JavadMotion — 5 hours ago
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Asking for help to make similar animation

Is there any method to achieve this animation using after effect? i'm a beginner and I need the steps to fulfill this.

u/Fabulous_Box_4240 — 9 hours ago
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I’m building a context-aware pie menu for After Effects

Hey everyone, I’ve been working on a plugin called Wedge.

It’s basically a context-aware pie menu for After Effects, kind of inspired by how pie menus feel in Blender and Maya.

I’ve used Blender quite a bit, and one thing I always liked was how fast those menus feel. After Effects has a lot of things I do again and again, but somehow I’m still opening panels, right clicking, searching menus, or using random scripts for small stuff.

So I wanted to build something that feels more natural inside AE.

Also, this is not really meant to compete with Quick Menu or replace every launcher type plugin. The main thing here is context. Wedge honors what you have selected, and only shows actions that actually make sense for that selection.

With Wedge, you press one shortcut and the menu opens right at your cursor. What shows up depends on what you have selected. Keyframes, masks, shape layers, text layers, comps, etc.

So the idea is not to make another huge panel. I’m trying to make something that stays out of the way and only shows the tools that make sense in that moment.

Right now I’m looking for beta testers, or just people who use AE a lot and are open to giving honest feedback. What feels useful, what feels stupid, what should be added, what should not exist at all.

You can check it here and register. I will reach out to you!
charchitgoyal.com/plugins/wedge

u/themotionguy — 22 hours ago

I made a fun icon for After Effects

Hey everyone, it's Good Boy Ninja (again)

I recently started making some fun icons for After Effects and other apps in the Creative Cloud collection. They're pretty easy to set up (especially on MacOS), feel free to check them out and grab yours!

Easy Ease icon for After Effects: https://www.goodboy.ninja/easyease

Creative Juices icon pack: https://www.goodboy.ninja/creativejuices

Sweet Cloud icon pack: https://www.goodboy.ninja/sweetcloud

u/goodboy-ninja — 11 hours ago

Not the final video, need to add final touches, fix audio etc. Need some feedback on the overall direction, if anything feels off etc.

Suggestion are appreciated.

u/nueroxy — 13 hours ago
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What’s the best way to move files from InDesign to After Effects?

I’m a graphic designer who creates social media cards, and I prefer using InDesign because of features like text boxes with background fills and other layout-specific tools that Photoshop and Illustrator don’t really have. Because of that, InDesign has basically become my main tool for this kind of work.

The problem is that I also create animated cards, institutional content, and SaaS-related animations, and I’ve been struggling to find a workflow that transfers my designs into After Effects without breaking the entire layout.

Going through Illustrator has been extremely unstable because the conversion often comes with issues, and as far as I know there isn’t really a proper way to export to PSD either.

If anyone knows good workflows, methods, or plugins that could help, I’d really appreciate hearing about them.

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u/Alarmed-Donut-9799 — 22 hours ago

Nike x Akatsuki concept product add commercial

This is another practice project which i made in After effects. I just used anime clips for the transition and created the logo animation. Don't mind the Sfx i'm very bad at choosing those and i need to learn sound design.

u/android_112 — 1 day ago

Animate this PNG to be wavy & smooth

I'm looking to animate this existing .png asset to be wavy and smooth, imitating ocean waves. What's the best approach for something like this?

My end goal is to have the waves gradually fill up the screen from bottom to top. This is a brand asset so I want to mimic/replicate the shape as much as possible. I do expect to alter it a little to achieve the effect I'm looking for

TIA :)

Major issues with Quick Matte - forcing me to add effect frame by frame

Hey everyone hope you’re well. I’m a beginner in after effects and trying to figure out the quick matte tool.

Everytime I click the subject, it only rotos the subject for one frame. I have to manually go one frame along in the composition layer and quick matte the subject again frame by frame.

This isn’t how it’s supposed to work right? I feel like I’m one setting change away from making it automatically roto the whole clip. What am I missing? 💖

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u/princessnubia — 1 day ago
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Experiencing Trouble with Lipsyncr script, any chance someone can help?

Hello! When I try to install Lipsyncr 2.8, some strange things happen: firstly, when I open the latest version of AE it tells me that I've installed 2.7 and that I need to install 2.8. The version I've downloaded says 2.8 on it and it's the most recent build on the AE Scripts site. The second strange thing is that when I click "yes" when it asks if I want to download the files necessary to run the script, it gives me the error: Cannot open Socket: notify.aescripts.comhttps:80, then when I click "proceed with manual installation" and download the files linked on the FAQ page to Application Support and restart, it doesn't seem to actually read the files in the Application Support folder. I have given AE full write access to my disk. I was wondering if this is a known issue and if so what the solution is. Thank you for your time!

u/flippythemaster — 1 day ago

Align Center Tool is not working.

Whenever I try to align center, it's always on the left side. The anchor point is clearly in the middle.

u/Yejiko — 1 day ago