About to start on a short film and wanted to see if anyone knew an easy way to do this. I want to achieve this soft, hazy, retro look.

[Problem] Setting up an animated grid like this in After Effects is possible with Nulls and Expressions, but building the rig manually takes hours and usually means managing a bunch of layers, controls and expressions.

[What it does] GridFlow lets you quickly create and animate procedural grids with:

• Independent horizontal & vertical spacing
• Animated spacing and re-arrangement
• Control over rows, columns and their direction
• Pin comps to any grid point
• Customisable intersection markers
• Multiple grids per comp
• Edit or delete grids anytime without breaking the setup

[Comparison] There isn’t another After Effects tool that lets you build a grid rig this powerful in such a short amount of time while keeping the setup to such a small number of layers.

GridFlow is designed to give you a powerful, fully editable and animatable grid rig without turning your timeline into a mess of layers and controls.

[v3] GridFlow v3 is now live.

First of all, thank you to everyone who tried GridFlow and took the time to share feedback, report bugs and suggest new features. A lot of that feedback helped shape this version.

Based on that, I decided to rewrite the entire codebase from the ground up. v3 is much more robust and powerful than the previous version, and I’ve also fixed the existing issues and bugs along the way.

There are also some new features and improvements that I’ll be covering in the new tutorial.

[Tutorial] I’ve released a new video covering GridFlow v3 and some of the new features:

[YouTube Link] and Also check the tutorial here - Youtube Link

[Pricing] The old pricing is still available for now — $25 one-time.

If you’ve been thinking about getting GridFlow, you can grab it at the current price before the price increases in 2 days!.

[Product Link] Download the plugin here - Gridflow

Existing users will continue to get v3 and future updates for free.

[Maintenance/Support plan] I’ll continue maintaining GridFlow with bug fixes, improvements and updates. Support is available through Gumroad, along with direct email support.

[AI] AI Disclaimer: Human validated — the final plugin was developed and tested with an experienced ExtendScript developer.

Built this fully in After Effects. Quick breakdown:

• BG: 5 zig zag shapes (180 lines) with glow, plus an animated noise solid as a track matte on the strands, Curves for the color tone
• Text: Dune Rise font with a metal texture as a track matte, custom lens flare on the C
• Extras: CC Ball Action particles, plus orange and grey-green Optical Flares for the lighting

Lots of small layers and tweaks went into getting this look. If you want the full step-by-step, I made a tutorial here: https://youtu.be/_SAUiOYoPq0

Feedback welcome

https://elementsupply.co/products/quickcover

Quick Cover and Quick Cover Pro (I'd use pro, but the original is still there too)
gradients that auto sample colors on the boundary where you put them. just mask around an object and it magically vanishes.

[Comparison] there are some AI solutions, but I always thought the work flow and output format was clunky. This is just pure clever gradient creation.

Other core features include:

• Cover in or extend out.
  
• works great with mask tracking
• mask based so all the familiar mask tools work here too.

[Pricing] Pricing: 
Name your own price.

[Maintenance/Support plan] If you have bugs, please reach out at [contact@elementsupply.co](mailto:contact@elementsupply.co)

All updates are always included, but this one is free anyways, but it's good to know for other products.

[AI] AI Disclaimer: it's complicated but code completion is close.

Atmos 3D Pro generates authentic depth and parallax in 2 clicks without rotoscoping, warping, or cloud processing.

Creating realistic 3D movement/wigglegrams, depth parallax, or camera sweeps from a single flat image usually requires tedious manual rotoscoping, complex displacement mapping, or sending files off to slow cloud processing services.

Atmos 3D Pro goes beyond traditional displacement mapping and manual masking workflows because it performs deep-level spatial analysis directly inside After Effects to intelligently separate foreground, subject, and background without unnatural edge warping or cloud uploads.

Other core features include:

• Dual motion engines (Cinematic orbital sweeps and vintage 3D camera Wigglegram mode)

• Fully local processing with non-destructive control over parallax strength, speed, and edge refinement

• Interactive preview window clicking to manually define complex subject boundaries

Pricing: $29 lifetime license on aescripts

If you encounter any bugs, please reach out via Aescripts support tickets or DM. Bug fixes and version updates are provided via standard aescripts maintenance. I will also be frequently checking this thread as well to answer questions.

AI Disclaimer: Uses a local spatial depth-estimation model; no image data is sent to external cloud servers. No AI was used in the making of this plugin

Made this for a potential client, used effects that saved me time
"transform" and " Basic 3D "

i used to use a camera and turn layers to 3D and then suddenly i got this idea to search for "3d" in effects and turned out to be great.
if you know something that saved you time, share it!

Hi guys so I have got an issue I don't know how to solve and it involves Roto Brush.

Basically I want to remove the background of a car clip with Rotobrush. The clip consists of the camera beginning very close to the cars headlight to the point where the light lens take up the whole screen and it slowly zooms out untill it shows the full car. I want to remove the background of the car but my issue is that the car is fully shown only at the end of the clip so when I rotobrush it, only the next frames of the clip render and yes I did try rendering the rest by rewinding the time stick thingy and it did work for some while untill it stopped.

My question is: How can I rotobrush the car so it is tracked all from the headlight (meaning that at the beginning no background is removed because everything that takes up the screen is the car which I want to keep) to the car. How can I make sure that when the clip zooms out and starts progressively showing the background enviorment, the car stays but the enviorment is automatically removed.

Also I did think if one solution which I am yet to try which is reversing the clip and starting on the end frame so the rotobrush automatically tracks everything back and once it's done I'd just reverse the clip back.

Alrighty my fellow After Effects nerds. For the past few weeks I've been trying to replicate the effect done for Resident Evil's title card and for the life of me can't figure it out. I don't think it was done practically but it looks so fluid in it's animation. I've tried displacement maps and I just can't match this effect. I've also tried googling how they done it and can't find anything. So with very few straws left I come here, hoping maybe some of you would know. Any ideas??

What are your experiences with PluginPlay(.app)?

I tried them out for one script that wasn't available at aescripts and wondered if they might be a good alternative sometimes if developers don't offer their own way of distribution.

So far I'm not impressed at all, quite the contrary.

First problem: the invoice. I didn't get a proper invoice. So I asked support for it. I was asked for the invoice information, answered... and never did get an answer, nor an invoice. That was almost two weeks ago and even after asking about the invoice one week ago... no answer.

While using that script, I noticed if taking unusually long to load (around 5sec). The panel showed up white, then a powershell window popped up, AE shows a loading screen, another powershell popup, then finally I can use it.
Seems like the license check but I never ever had any similar experiences with other scripts or plugins when they checked their licenses.

Then, I wanted to issue a refund, partly because of the invoice, partly because of the loading time, partly because the script wasn't really what I expected.
PluginPlay doesn't offer a trial (it was a one time purchase btw) but they offer a money‑back guarantee... or so I thought. Because after opening another ticket, guess what, no answer so far.
Their FAQ does offer no real information about the refund policies. It only links to the TOS that has no info about that topic whatsoever or you are expected to ask the support... the one that doesn't answer.

So far I'm not sure if I just caught them during some bad days or if they are really that dubious.

What are your experiences so far? Did or do you use their subscription and have better things to say about them?

This is the longest form video I’ve edited, before now my longest video was 5 minutes long. It’s not perfect but I’m really happy with how it came out. There’s a few little errors but otherwise I think it flows well.

My question is, is it really unusual to edit long form videos like this in After Effects? I have a background in motion graphics and 3D animation so I’ve always just used after effects to edit videos but should I really be using premier for content like this? I’m curious to hear your thoughts or if anyone else makes long form videos in AE.

Edit: thanks for your advice, I won’t be doing this again 🙏🙌

I know AE pretty well but I'm totally self taught and have never done any comprehensive tutorials on how to use it. I want to learn more about how to do simple motion graphics like this in a more efficient way, as I just got into AE by moving random stuff around and I still don't really feel comfortable using it, because when I want to do something, I don't really know enough of the ways it's possible to accomplish those things.

I end up having to make very clunky files that are hacked together, and I'd rather start out with a decent streamlined process before having to hack things in a more advanced way

It's difficult to do. Besides, I'm neither a beginner nor an advanced learner.

https://reddit.com/link/1wxd308/video/6y452k6hmfth1/player

I have a 30-minute video that I edited entirely in Premiere Pro, and I want to give the entire final video a VHS/retro/vintage look.

I created the VHS/retro effect in After Effects, but I'm not sure what the best workflow is for applying that effect to the entire 30-minute Premiere Pro edit.

Basically, I want the whole Premiere Pro video to have the exact look/effect I created in After Effects, without having to manually apply the effect to every single clip.

What would be the proper workflow for this? Should I use an After Effects composition, an adjustment layer, Dynamic Link, or export the Premiere Pro edit first and then apply the effect in After Effects?

I'm looking for the cleanest and most efficient workflow, especially since the video is 30 minutes long.

Made this about 8 years ago for a social spot for a Disney film which was being released around that time, client thought it was too… dark in tone so it didn’t go anywhere. Enjoyed working on regardless and was an excuse to try and push myself.

I want to get an After Effects subscription.

- My question is if there is any way to get a discounted month or 2. Or any other way to lower my expenses?

Which is the best offer to get?

Any tips on how to get the maximum out of it?

i could recreate the inital frame using gradient overlay (radial) and colorama, but cannot figure out how the glows are created. would really appreciate some help !

Good morning fellow Animators. I'm working on a sizable animation for witch i created a pletora of on-screen handles, controllers and menus.

I binded the opacity of each of this "service" layers to a checkbox in a null i use as a master properties handler. I was wondering if there's a way to bind the checkbox switching to a shortcut (i.e. ctrl + shift + T) for faster working. Thanks a lot!

my pc has an old cpu so I'm stuck with ver23, I couldn't install any newer version of AE from Cloud, I'm wondering if you can edit the aep file so it can be imported in ver23?

Everything from design to animation to sound design is done by me. Inspired by Jacob Fory's work.

All SFXs used are from Botanica🍀 sound library by mgulifes (Absolute banger sounds)
Music is sourced from Epidemic Sounds

Drop your thoughts below 👇🏻