After Effects Plugins

After Effects Plugins for professional work.

Explore After Effects plugins and workflow tools from NexTools. Simplify animation tasks, speed up repetitive work, and enhance your motion design workflow.

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Allix Studio

A professional all-in-one motion design and workflow extension for Adobe After Effects.

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Duik Bassel 2

Rig and animate characters, creatures and any complex shape in After Effects — IK/FK, bones, auto-rig, dynamics and a full animation library.

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RubberHose 2

The fastest way to build and animate smooth, rubber-hose style arms and legs in After Effects — no complex kinematics required.

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Limber

Build fully rigged, resolution-independent IK arms and legs from a single shape layer — with elbows, knees and clean bends every time.

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Joysticks 'n Sliders

Blend between drawings and poses using intuitive on-canvas joysticks and sliders — perfect for head turns, expressions and character controls.

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GifGun

Export polished, optimised animated GIFs straight from your composition without leaving After Effects or touching Photoshop.

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Create Nulls From Paths

Attach a null object to every point of a mask, shape or motion path so you can rig and animate paths directly in After Effects.

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Create Nulls From Paths Extended

An extended take on the classic path-to-nulls workflow, adding more options for rigging masks, shapes and motion paths in After Effects.

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TextExploder

Break a text layer into separate lines, words or characters as individual layers, ready for staggered animation in After Effects.

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Super Morphings

Morph one shape into another with clean, controllable transitions — no manual path matching in After Effects.

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Super Lines

Create dynamic connecting lines, networks and trails between layers in After Effects — fully animated and customisable.

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Flex

Instantly create bendy tubes, cables and connections that link two layers and flex as they move in After Effects.

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Reach

Build quick inverse-kinematic reach rigs so limbs and arms grab, point and reach with natural motion in After Effects.

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Type

Design and animate expressive typography in After Effects with fast, flexible text animation controls.

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Cyclops

A composition QC and review panel for After Effects — spot issues, check safe areas and preview your work with confidence.

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Swiss Knife

A collection of everyday After Effects helpers gathered into one convenient panel to speed up common tasks.

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Universal Audio

Turn audio into animation in After Effects — convert sound to keyframes and rig properties to react to your audio.

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Volume-n-Tricks

A toolkit of audio-reactive tricks for After Effects — build lively, sound-synced motion and effects with ease.

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Smart Resize 2

Quickly resize compositions to new aspect ratios in After Effects while keeping your layout intact — ideal for social formats.

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Smart Animator 3.0

Speed up keyframe animation in After Effects with smart tools for applying, copying and refining motion across layers.

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Smart Bounce

Add realistic bounce and elastic motion to your keyframes in After Effects with a single click.

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Smart Mask

Streamline working with masks in After Effects — create, manage and animate masks with smart, time-saving tools.

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Smart Text

Handy tools for working with text layers in After Effects — edit, manage and animate type more efficiently.

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Parallaxer

Automatically space and rig layers in Z depth to create smooth parallax and 2.5D camera moves in After Effects.

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Layer Sitter

Rename, color, label and organise layers in bulk to keep complex After Effects projects clean and navigable.

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NodeKit

Create and animate nodes, connections and network diagrams in After Effects with a dedicated toolkit.

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DuGR

Organise After Effects layers into manageable groups so you can select, hide and control them together.

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Presetify

Store, organise and apply your favourite effects and animation presets in After Effects from one convenient panel.

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Essentials

A compact set of essential After Effects utilities for the tasks you perform every single day.

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BOUNCr

Apply bounce and elastic overshoot to your keyframes in After Effects for lively, physical motion.

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MarkerTriggery

Use layer or composition markers to trigger and time animations in After Effects for a fast, musical workflow.

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rTime

Speed up time remapping and retiming tasks in After Effects with a focused, efficient tool.

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VR Comp Editor

Set up and manage 360° / VR compositions in After Effects, including converting between VR formats and editing immersive scenes.

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Walker Tool

Speed up building walk cycles for rigged characters in After Effects with a focused helper tool.

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JointViz

Visualise joints and controllers in your After Effects character rigs to make rigging and animation clearer.

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EmojiKit

Add and animate emoji directly in After Effects with a ready-to-use kit of expressive icons.

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AfterEmoji

Insert and work with emoji in After Effects for playful, expressive motion graphics and social content.

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Smart Threshold

Create and control threshold and high-contrast black-and-white looks in After Effects with a focused tool.

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Demo Palette

A lightweight demo palette panel for After Effects — a handy starting point for quick actions and color swatches.

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FX Console

A lightning-fast launcher for After Effects — search and apply effects, presets and projects without touching the menus.

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Motion Tools

A workflow panel packed with animation and easing shortcuts to speed up everyday motion design in After Effects.

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EaseCopy

Copy the easing from one keyframe and paste it onto others in After Effects for consistent, reusable motion.

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MoBar

Build a personalised toolbar of your favourite scripts, effects and actions in After Effects for one-click access.

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Trim Pack

A pack of trimming and timeline utilities to manage layer in/out points and timing quickly in After Effects.

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AM Script Manager

Organise, browse and launch your After Effects scripts from a single manager panel.

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RKbar

A customisable bar for triggering your most-used After Effects scripts and actions quickly.

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Smart Import

Speed up importing and organising footage and assets into your After Effects projects.

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rLauncher

A simple launcher for firing your scripts and tools in After Effects without menu-diving.

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Aligner

Align, center and distribute layers in After Effects with precise, one-click controls.

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RAligner

Align layers relative to one another or to the composition in After Effects with flexible controls.

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Auto Crop

Automatically crop a composition to the bounds of its visible content in After Effects.

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Buttcapper

Quickly adjust stroke line caps and joins on shape layers in After Effects.

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ColorSwap

Find and replace colors across layers and comps in After Effects for fast recolouring.

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Colors

A color palette panel for After Effects to store, organise and apply your project colors.

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Labels

Organise your timeline with advanced label-color tools for layers in After Effects.

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LayerNamer

Batch-rename layers with flexible naming rules in After Effects to keep projects tidy.

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Find and Replace Text

Search and replace text across all text layers and comps in an After Effects project.

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Scale Composition

Resize a composition together with all its layers and nested content in After Effects.

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Scale Selected Layers

Scale a selection of layers together around a chosen point in After Effects.

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Sort Layers by In Point

Automatically reorder layers in the timeline based on their in points in After Effects.

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True Layer Duplicator

Duplicate layers in After Effects while keeping parenting and expression links intact within the copy.

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Double-Up

Quickly duplicate layers with position or time offsets in After Effects to build patterns and trails.

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AM Select and Set

Select layers by criteria and set their properties together in After Effects for fast batch edits.

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superSelect

Select layers by type, property or criteria in After Effects for faster, smarter workflows.

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KeysBinder

Bind and manage keyframes across properties in After Effects for tighter, connected animation.

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Convert Selected Properties to Markers

Convert keyframes on selected properties into composition or layer markers in After Effects.

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Null Center Group

Add a null object at the combined center of selected layers in After Effects for easy group control.

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goodParents

Parent and unparent layers in After Effects without the child jumping, preserving transforms cleanly.

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delayChild

Add cascading time delays down a parenting chain in After Effects for automatic follow-through.

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bakeParentedTransform

Bake a layer’s parented motion into its own keyframes in After Effects so it holds after unparenting.

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Scale & Rotate Motion Paths

Scale and rotate the motion path formed by position keyframes in After Effects, non-destructively.

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rd_Movement

Quickly add randomised movement or offsets to layers in After Effects for organic variation.

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rd_CompSetter

Change settings across many compositions at once in After Effects, from one dialog.

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rd_MasksToShapes

Turn mask paths into editable shape layers in After Effects with one command.

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rd_ShapesToMasks

Turn shape-layer paths into mask paths in After Effects with a single command.

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Update Legacy Expressions

Scan and help update legacy ExtendScript expressions to the modern JavaScript engine in After Effects.

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Upgrade Legacy Blurs

Find and upgrade deprecated Fast Blur effects to Fast Box Blur across your After Effects project.

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Particular Migrator

Help migrate and update Trapcode Particular settings between layers or versions in After Effects.

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Elastic Comp Changer

Resize a composition while intelligently repositioning layers to fit the new dimensions in After Effects.

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Change Render Locations

Change the output file locations for many items in the After Effects render queue at once.

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Render and Email

Render your After Effects queue and send an email notification automatically when it completes.

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mExpression

Browse and apply a collection of useful expressions to your layers in After Effects.

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rLayer

A set of quick layer utilities to speed up common layer tasks in After Effects.

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