VFX for After Effects

Dynamic Shadow 3 is a Pixcode plugin for After Effects that creates dynamic, controllable floor shadows. It ships with 19 shadow styles and 12 light styles, plus a Visual Shadow engine for lighting and shadow customization.

Easy Comp is an AI-powered plugin for After Effects from Blace Plugins. It runs in CPU mode or with hardware acceleration and handles foreground layers, masks, and 16-bit compositions.

High Pass is a high pass filter effect for Adobe After Effects from BGRA Entertainment. It's listed here as free and runs across a wide range of versions, from CS6 to the 2024 release.

Lockdown 3 tracks warping and planar surfaces inside After Effects. This free version supports 1 and 2 point tracking, gives your mesh 3D depth, and includes Paint Link and Composite Brush.

MaskPin is a native After Effects effect for mask-based perspective pinning. It fits four perspective pins directly to your mask area in one click, rather than starting from the full comp or layer bounds.

Effect Matte from Plugin Everything is an After Effects plugin for creating mattes, with controls for expansion, roundness and feathering, plus an invert matte option. It supports 32bpc color and works with text and video layers.

RE:Vision Effects Video Gogh is a plugin for Adobe After Effects, compatible with CS6 and up including the 2024 release. Version 4 added GPU rendering, and the tool comes in regular and Pro versions.

SUGARfx Revolve 360 lets editors edit, animate and control 360 equirectangular video clips in After Effects, DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro, controlling the framing and viewing of a specific area of a captured 360° panorama.

Zoetrope DFISH is a GPU-accelerated fisheye removal effect for After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, and Premiere Pro. It removes barrel distortion from pro fisheye lenses and action cam footage, turning curved video into straight wide-angle shots.

AI Relight Pro adds customizable lights to footage in post inside After Effects and Premiere Pro. It reads the 3D properties of a shot so you can place fake 3D lights and control their direction.

LightsOn adds lens flares and lights to scenes and animations in After Effects. Built inside After Effects using Standard Elements, it needs no separate plug-in and animates through Essential Properties, with everything adjustable.

Pixel Galactic is a GPU-accelerated plugin for After Effects and Premiere Pro that transforms motion into dreamy trails, glitchy echoes, and flowing pixel distortions. It is developed by Pixel Sorter Studio.

AEJuice NeonMind AI is an After Effects tool for working with Stable Diffusion. It handles the process from installation to turning your text descriptions into artwork, without requiring deep knowledge of Stable Diffusion.

Bleed is an After Effects plugin from MotionCodes that adds a bleeding effect to type and objects. It offers many controls, works without creating keyframes, and can loop at any duration.

Dirty Letterbox : Film Matt Aspect Ratios is a drag-and-drop film-look pack for After Effects and Premiere Pro, bundling dirty letterbox mattes, film perforation elements and dust overlays across 4x3, 2.35x1 and 16x9 aspect ratios.

Luca Visual FX Light Kit is a collection of light, color and transition plugins for After Effects and Premiere Pro. It bundles tools for flicker, pulsing lights, gradients, vignettes, localised light, stylization and wipe transitions.

Mettle Mantra brings 360/VR/AR stylization effects to After Effects and Premiere Pro. It transforms flat and 360° footage and images, supports AR export to USDZ and glTF, and includes a node-based panel for combining effects.

Mettle Suite is a collection of plugins for After Effects and Premiere Pro, bringing together tools including FreeForm Pro and Mettle Flux for building visuals and GPU-accelerated volumetric fractals across both applications.

Pixel Repeat is an After Effects plugin that loops pixels, created by Max van Leeuwen. It suits glitch art, stylized streaks, and other unique visuals, with transparency now supported in Visualization mode.

AEJuice Sandstorm Effect turns a still photo into a blowing, billowing sand effect in After Effects. Control the number of particles, turbulence, and particle distance, with results built from your own images in a few clicks.

AEJuice Trapcode Elements is a pack of realistic, fluid-based effects for After Effects, built for use with Trapcode Particular. It includes 58 customizable elements spanning five categories: Air, Earth, Fire, Lightning, and Water.

Comp Buddy is an After Effects tool from Josh Johnson that simplifies creating an edge blur and light wrap. It supports a range of After Effects versions, from CC 2019 through 2025.

Photo Mosaic by Haligonian rebuilds every frame in After Effects and Premiere Pro out of thousands of little photos. On close examination, the result is an image made up of many hundreds or thousands of smaller images.

Pixelan BlurBlender Pro brings 650+ GPU-accelerated blur effects to After Effects and Premiere Pro, letting you shape, blend, and mask blurs into looks beyond built-in tools, plus control where the blur appears in a scene.