by Gareso·Workflow
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Earns its place for consolidating several shape-layer chores — onion skinning, shade groups, path tweaks, and mask creation — into a single After Effects tool that spans versions back to CC 2018.
Cleanup Master is an After Effects tool from Gareso that focuses on shape layer workflows. It's built to make complex cleanup tasks faster, smarter, and easier.
Onion Skin adds forward and backward ghost overlays of nearby frames on the selected layer, giving reference while animating; these overlays are excluded from renders and nested comps. Create Shade Group can open a settings dialog to hide originals and choose which properties — fills, strokes, shape transforms, layer transforms, and shape modifiers — stay linked to the original. Tweak Paths handles shape path editing with improved shape recognition, and a separate function creates masks from selected paths, including a Subtract option.
The current release is version 1.3.0, last updated in July 2026, and it runs on After Effects 2026 through CC 2018. A demo video is available on the developer's page.
Cleanup Master is best for shape layer cleanup and reference during animation in After Effects.
Cleanup Master is completely free to download and use.
Cleanup Master supports After Effects 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, and CC 2018, so it covers current releases along with several older ones. The listed version is 1.3.0, last updated in July 2026. For system requirements beyond the After Effects version and confirmation of the latest supported build, check the developer's page before installing, since compatibility can change with new releases.
Cleanup Master is listed as free here, and it's a shape-layer cleanup tool for After Effects from Gareso, currently at version 1.3.0. Licensing terms on aescripts can change over time, so confirm the current cost and any license conditions on the developer's page before you download. The pricing shown by the developer takes precedence if it ever differs from what you see here.
Cleanup Master's Onion Skin feature adds forward and backward ghost overlays of nearby frames on the selected layer, meant as reference while animating. Those overlays are excluded from renders and from nested comps, so they stay as an on-screen aid rather than something that ends up in your output. In the 1.3.0 update, Onion Skin was also adjusted to mimic the source layer's solo state.
Cleanup Master 1.3.0 introduces Onion Skin, which places forward and backward ghost overlays of nearby frames on the selected layer for animation reference and keeps them out of renders and nested comps. The same release changes Create Shade Group: holding CMD or CTRL opens a settings dialog for hiding originals and choosing which properties stay linked to the original, and a SHIFT toggle for editing works when the shade group layer is selected. Later point updates refined Onion Skin's behaviour.
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