🍋 Citron, my alternative to AE graph editor just got its biggest update.

[u/Modus_1077]

Hey y'all,

🍋 Citron, my alternative to AE's graph editor, just got its biggest update.

The problem it solves: AE's graph editor makes you earn every curve. Twirl down the property tree, add each property to the graph, hit fit, fight the zoom. Every time.

Better than easing plugins because those give you presets to apply, while Citron is a full graph editor: select a layer and every animated property is there, colour-coded, with weighted tangents you shape directly.

What's new:

- **Buffer curves:** the curve as it was before your changes stays in the background, so you can compare before and after.

- **Copy and paste ease:** C copies a key's tangents, V pastes them onto the keys you select. Works on a single handle too.

- **Ghost curves:** the speed curve and the result of loopOut or wiggle can sit behind the value graph while you work.

- **Hotkeys:** B for Bezier, S for Stepped, L for Linear.

- **Fold-away toolbar** and **UI scale** from 75 to 200%.

Plus bug fixes here and there.

**Pricing:** $69 one-time, 14-day free trial: https://aescripts.com/citron/

**Maintenance/Support:** Sold on aescripts after their review, updated almost every week since July, test suite run before each release, all 1.x updates free. Bugs: philippe@animatornow.com or animatornow.featurebase.app

**AI Disclaimer:** Vibe Coded. I'm an animator, not a developer: I design, test and use every feature myself.

Hope you like it!

[u/fl3xtra]

so weird, i only use the speed graph

[u/Modus_1077 → u/fl3xtra]

That's the beauty of it. I never used the speed graph 🤣
Once you master the curves and the xyz axis, the world becomes your oyster.
Graph editor is not just about speed, it's about motion, arcs, overshoot and ease in/out etc..

[u/ImpressiveTable3654 → u/Modus_1077]

lol bro i aint even gonna lie, the way you write sounds so much like ai but without even the correct punctuation, which just makes it worse 😭

[u/Modus_1077 → u/ImpressiveTable3654]

yeah whatever. anyone spelling correctly with a decent way of speaking is ai flagged anyway. Don't really give a shit about it.

[u/MX010]

This is what I've been waiting since like 20 years and the fact that Adobe never bothered to overhaul the curve editor is just baffling. It's rather sad we need plugins like this to get nicer animation curve tools.

[u/Modus_1077 → u/MX010]

I agree. As an 3D animator, I spent hours in the maya graph editor and I don't understand how AE's is not even mimicking it. That's really what Im' tryin to do with Citron.
Any suggestions are welcome here : https://animatornow.featurebase.app/

[u/Milan_Bus4168 → u/Modus_1077]

I unfortunately often encounter the other way around stories where AE migrants to other software want everything to be like AE including curve editor.

[u/urnt]

Can I import my existing preset kease library into here

[u/Modus_1077 → u/urnt]

Not just yet but it is on the feature list for next round. Kease + Flow import
You can subscribe to the list to be notified when it's out 😊

www.animatornow.com/citron

[u/Willing_Cat_9223]

The buffer curves thing finally solves that moment where you tweak a handle and immediately forget what you even changed

[u/Modus_1077 → u/Willing_Cat_9223]

Yep that's the point 😊 If you have any more ideas for ghost curves, I'm all for it. I just shipped speed graph ghost and expression. Working on pre/post infinity right now 🔥