Workflow for After Effects

Paint Link is a plugin for After Effects that creates a dynamic connection with Photoshop for frame-by-frame animation. Built by a + a plugins, it links the two applications so you can work across both.

Polymorph is an After Effects tool from Rob Barrett for swapping or attaching layers. Replace shape layers, text layers, footage or nulls with any other layer in your comp.

Root is an asset organizer for After Effects that gathers used media, finds missing files, and packages everything into clean, self-contained projects. It builds shareable asset folders and bundles multiple comps into individual project packages.

Super 3D is an After Effects extension for working with 3D objects in your compositions. Import GLB and GLTF models with one click, replace models or textures on existing layers, and convert 3D layers to solids for effects.

Variations is an After Effects script from .nook for creating comp variations with new sizes, timings, and more. It can generate variations or modify existing comps, with optional Name and Location sections.

versionUp is an After Effects script for cycling between every version of your footage. Click the up and down arrows to move through versions, or Shift+Click to skip straight to the newest or oldest versions available.

aePipeline is an After Effects tool for automating VFX shot workflows, building shots, versioning, rendering, and creating mattes in one click, with tools for comp setup, render queuing, and matte generation.

Auto Backup is an After Effects script that automatically creates a backup every time you save your project. It gives you earlier versions to fall back on if a file becomes corrupted or an effect misbehaves.

Batch Shot is an After Effects script for capturing PNG screenshots from your video clips. Pick a frame with a percentage slider, export clean stills in one click, and add an optional text watermark.

Beatnik is an After Effects plugin from Ebberts + Zucker for creating audio-driven edits, speed ramps, and retimings. The tool runs these from a single click and works across a wide range of AE versions.

Coco Color CoWorker is a color panel for After Effects from LetsMotion. It offers a color picker, a smart palette generator, importable and exportable palette libraries, and hotkeys for applying colors to shape strokes or fills.

ColorSwap is an After Effects script that searches and replaces colors within a single composition, a selection, or an entire project. It also supports keyframed colors.

Faux Parent is a Freshmograph script for After Effects that lets you decide how much control a parent layer has over its child, offering the power of parenting with more freedom than a normal parent link.

FontMixer, a GothLab extension for After Effects, merges up to 100 fonts into a single file and lets you preview and use every style across Adobe apps.

FontShaper is a GothLab script for After Effects that lets you use fonts in Adobe apps without installing them. It also supports Illustrator and Photoshop, and draws on Google Fonts or a local fonts folder.

Hextractor is a color-extraction script for After Effects from YB Motion that pulls colors from text and layers into palettes, guides and swatches. Paste hex codes, build palettes from selected layers, and share them with your team.

LayerStash is an After Effects panel that saves any layer with all its properties and loads it into any project in one click, preserving keyframes, effects, and expressions across text, shape, adjustment, precomp, and media layers.

Magic Switcher PRO is a Script-Fighter tool for After Effects that toggles Layer Styles, Effects, and Adjustment Layers on and off with a single click across an entire project. It can also mute and unmute audio project-wide.

Marker Maestro Pro is a markers panel for After Effects that displays all Comp and Layer markers in one place, with their timecode, comment, color and layer number, and lets you edit them directly.

Mask & Layer Splitter is an After Effects script for separating masks into layers, renaming them, cropping precomps, and applying layer offsets. Version 1.2.1 adds a Separate/Sequence naming option, and the script also supports KBar.

Maskform 2 adds numerical mask transformation to After Effects, letting you set anchor point, position, scale, rotation, and skew by exact values. Workflow controls for toggling, baking, and removing transformations round out this release from Hassaan Ahmad.

Masks to Cropped Layers II is an After Effects utility for animating vector graphics and improving VFX compositing performance. It copies each mask on a multi-mask layer to a new solid or pre-comp, cropped to the mask's size.

Match is an After Effects extension for handling expressions and scripting. It offers property path fetching, error handling, on-the-fly expression formatting, easing function copying, and expression baking, and supports all After Effects property types.

Nexanim is an After Effects tool that builds a next-generation animation system by separating progress from value. It enables a non-destructive workflow and addresses curve distortion, fixed timeline values, and synchronization difficulties in traditional animation systems.