by Mahmoud Elsafy·Motion Graphics
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Sliced Box earns its place in the toolfarm library for turning any footage or layer into an animated 3D sliced box with one click, backed by 25 presets and support that spans After Effects from CS4 to 2026.
Sliced Box builds dynamic animated 3D sliced boxes inside After Effects, with one-click creation and complete key-framable control over the result. You can drop in any footage or layer and update it easily, and its settings are arranged as a pseudo effect for tidy custom controls. The developer describes infinite combinations and possibilities coming out of those controls.
The plugin includes animation presets that save Sliced Box keyframes, property values and expressions so you can apply them with a single click. When a preset is applied, it calculates relative position and scale to suit your new composition size. You can import and export presets to a single file, and 25 ready-to-use presets are bundled in.
Sliced Box runs across a wide range of After Effects releases, from CS4 through the 2026 version, so setups can move between older and newer projects. A demo video is available, and version 3.37 addressed a bug fix.
Sliced Box is best for after Effects artists creating animated 3D sliced-box effects from footage or layers, with the option to save and reuse setups through animation presets.
Sliced Box is completely free to download and use.
Sliced Box supports a broad span of After Effects releases, including the 2026 version along with 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020. It also runs on the CC line back through CC 2014, plus CS6, CS5.5, CS5 and CS4. If you move between multiple machines or reopen older projects, that range means the same sliced-box setups can travel across versions without requiring one specific recent release of After Effects.
Sliced Box includes animation presets that store its keyframes, property values and expressions, so you can apply a full animation with a single click. When you add a preset, it calculates relative position and scale to suit your new composition size for a better fit. You can also import and export presets to one file, which makes sharing or backing them up straightforward, and 25 ready-to-use presets come bundled with the plugin from the start.
Sliced Box is listed as free in this catalog, so you can add it to your After Effects setup without a purchase noted here. Licensing terms can change over time, though, so it's worth checking the developer's page for the current details before you rely on it in a project. That page from Mahmoud Elsafy is also the place to confirm usage rights, updates or support directly.
Sliced Box reached version 3.37, released on May 24, 2025, and the changelog describes that release simply as a bug fix. Beyond that entry, no further detail about the change is given here, so for the full picture of what's new or fixed it's best to check the developer's page directly. That page will also carry any releases newer than the version noted in this listing.
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