r/motiongraphics

I gave Claude a reference video and asked it to recreate the motion graphics with my own twist. I explained the changes I wanted, using Opus 5.5 connected to invideo Editor through MCP, and this is what came back.

Claude went into the editor and built the motion graphics and visual effects, the glowing green background you're seeing, artist portraits, playlist cards, and transitions between the screens.

This entire video cost me just 0.5 credits, and even that was only for generating the sound effects. I was honestly surprised by the output. One more thing, the whole timeline is editable, the text, graphics, music, and sound effects sit on separate layers, so I can go back and adjust things myself, which I did cuz “you’re absolutely right, I shouldn’t have changed that” doesn’t fix my timeline.

Attached my timeline so you can see how it’s put together.

Hii, does anyone know how to make this kind of like puppet animation in after effects, im new to the software and im interested in making something like this! but i dont really know where to start to make this

I’m very new using Premiere Pro. As a former photographer, I’m disappointed I’m not finding more sites that sell mogrt templates. (I assumed I could easy find & buy them like photoshop actions)

Would anyone be kind enough to show me how to create -or- point me in the direction of a great mogrt template store? I found the timer I need in adobe stock but can’t spend $50 on it.

I can follow step by step instructions well. 🙏 Thank you for any help. I’ve been struggling with trying to resolve this on my own for 4 days now. 😭 Feeling very frustrated.

Using a PC, windows 11, Premiere Pro 2026

Hey all,

I run a motion studio and live in After Effects daily, so I did a full breakdown of the plugins I'd actually spend money on in 2026. I share my honest opinion about what they're good for, when they're NOT worth it, and the annoying parts tutorials usually skip.

Quick takeaways you can use right now:

1. Overlord

If you design in Illustrator / Figma, it can be the biggest time-saver. Sends over editable shapes + text instead of digging through a giant Illustrator import. 2026 updates made Figma way smoother. 

Watch for: text spacing shifts, layer order flips, complex gradients not transferring 1:1. Always do a clean-up pass after transfer.

2. Deep Glow

Only if you do a lot of light work, After Effects' native glow is technically a glow. Deep Glow actually looks like light. Nicer falloff, cinematic tone-mapping, RGB radius, lens dirt in v2. 

Watch for: it's ~$100 for a glow, it gets overused fast, and we've hit black previews + export crashes with it in the studio. If you mostly do flat vector explainers, skip it.

3. True Comp Duplicator

Imagine you have 1 main comp with 5 pre-comps inside and 12 nested comps. Then the client says, "Can we make another version?". This duplicates everything correctly linked, renames, and keeps expressions. Moreover, it is name-your-own-price for individuals.

4. Newton 4

Only when you need real physics. Full 2D physics engine inside AE, bakes to editable keyframes. Amazing for falling/colliding/bouncing setups where keyframing 50 objects would take hours. 

Watch for: ~$250 and not a daily driver. Grab the trial with export limits first to see if you actually need it.

5. Joysticks ‘N Sliders

Joysticks ‘N Sliders is great for building poses and driving a whole face / UI rig from one controller. 

Downside: heavy rigs + lots of expressions can slow AE down, and adding new parts after you rig is clunky.

6. Duik Angela

Duik Angela is free, open-source, and can rig a full character. It's just huge, so it feels intimidating if you only need a simple arm up/down. Still the one I'd tell anyone serious about rigging to learn.

6. BadFX

One free panel with easings, stagger, gradients, transforms, presets, utils. Great if you don't want to hunt 40 tiny scripts across 40 sites. We use it daily.

7. Glasser

Applies editable glass to shape, text, footage or precomp layers, then you refine it through Essential Properties. Best part: it generates a Control Null so you can move, scale, and rotate the glass with your design.

8. Putty

Lattice + cage deformer that reads the layer's alpha and places the lattice right on the visible pixels, instead of a grid across the whole layer.

9. Pixion

Particle system that generates particles from any source layer and drives behavior from pixel data like luminance and color. GPU accelerated. 

Watch for: most interesting of the three for hero backgrounds, product reveals, music visuals. Still v1 territory and not cheap, so trial first.

If you want the full breakdown with examples and links, you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/QNBG0DxsaYY