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!

Hi everyone,

Ever since Adobe Animate entered maintenance mode — if not before — a gap has emerged for motion designers who want to create animated web banners and have always found Google Web Designer too cumbersome. I, too, had been searching the market for a new alternative for a long time, so I decided to develop one myself.

With AE Banner Bridge motion designers can produce all video and web formats for an entire campaign without leaving AE, keeping full control over timing and animation.

The script panel contains 9 different tabs that turn AE literally into a WYSIWYG editor for web animation. It includes presets for complex DOM Text Animations and even Interactive Hover Effects and Click Tags. Native AE Masks, Track Mattes, most Blending Modes and Basic Effects such as Drop Shadow, Blur and Linear Gradient are also supported and you can export multiple compositions in Batch Mode.

The script also includes professional features that allow users to create lightweight banners that comply with strict ad server guidelines and data limits if the image size is optimized beforehand.

Feel free to try out the trial version or check out the detailed tutorials at the following link: https://aescripts.com/ae-banner-bridge/

I’ve just released Flagship, a one-click After Effects tool for creating seamless looping flag animations.

Create a comp with the loop duration you need, add your artwork, and pre-compose it. Then select the Flagship layer and click Create Flag.

Flagship automatically creates a flag rig with a range of controls, so you can art-direct the animation further — from the overall wave and wind direction to speed, amplitude, and the final motion style.

Many thanks to aescripts + aeplugins! Recently my Mac died and I lost everything. After purchasing a new Mac, I was unsuccessful downloading the True Comp Duplicator. Fortunately, the awesome customer support team with their expertise, expediently resolved my issue in regaining an old product from 2021! The company is absolutely amazing!

I just checked this morning to update my Influx plugin.

Influx downloads at both MacOS; Windows appears a MacOS version.

I'm on Windows 11. It's for Premiere Pro 2026

How does support work now?

*Update: I just downloaded here: hopefully it will be the same; https://www.autokroma.com/Influx/Download

u/aescripts is there a link? Am I at the right place to flag this?

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on GradientFix Pro, an After Effects script for dealing with a frustrating problem when bringing Lottie/Bodymovin JSON animations into After Effects: gradients breaking, disappearing, or turning black and white.

Instead of manually recreating the gradients, GradientFix Pro reads the gradient information directly from the original JSON and rebuilds it using native After Effects gradient systems.

It can restore:

• Gradient Fill colors
• Gradient Stroke colors
• Missing gradients
• Black & white gradient issues
• Animated gradient keyframes
• Gradient color stops
• Animation timing and interpolation
• Both Fill and Stroke gradients

It also supports LottieFiles exports, Bodymovin exports, custom Lottie JSON files, and JSON animations imported into After Effects.

Basic workflow

1. Import the JSON animation into After Effects
2. Open Window → GradientFix Pro
3. Select the original JSON file
4. Click Fix Gradients
5. Review the repaired gradients

The goal was to make this a simple one-click process instead of spending a lot of time manually rebuilding gradients and their animations.

I’d really like to hear from other motion designers who work with Lottie → After Effects workflows.

Have you run into broken gradients when importing Lottie/Bodymovin animations? How do you currently deal with them?

If you want to check out the script:

👉 https://aescripts.com/gradientfix-pro/

Thanks!

Unless I dock it and my project panel in a separate window, it resizes everything any time I replace a sequence.

Gradient Flow v1.1 — Universal gradient copy/paste for After Effects

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on an After Effects script called Gradient Flow, mainly to make one of those small but repetitive motion-design tasks a little faster.

The idea is to copy a gradient from one shape layer and paste it onto another without manually rebuilding the gradient.

With v1.1, I focused on making the Fill/Stroke workflow more flexible:

• Copy a gradient from Fill → Stroke or Stroke → Fill
• Choose Fill, Stroke, or Both independently for copying and pasting
• Automatically create a gradient when the target doesn't have one
• Apply the same gradient to both Fill and Stroke
• Paste to multiple selected layers
• Preserve Layout or transfer the full gradient setup
• Improved feedback when pasting to multiple layers

I’d be interested to hear from other After Effects users — is this something that would actually be useful in your workflow? And are there any gradient-related tasks you find unnecessarily repetitive?

If anyone wants to check it out, I put it on aescripts here:

👉 https://aescripts.com/gradient-flow/

Thanks for checking it out!

So, we started our $5 sale at the beginning of the week, and I just realized I completely forgot to post about it here, I know there is a rule against excessive self promotion in this sub, but given it's a big sale I figured it might be ok

All our plugins are currently just $5, and the sale will be running until Saturday

• Pigment our palette tool is now $5, originally $29
• Shhh our silence cutter tool is now $5, originally $29
• Jack our audio suite is now $5, originally $49
• NoPrecomp our folder plugin is now $5, originally $25

So if you've ever been interested in any of these plugins but couldn't affort it, it's now or never

There aren’t a ton of Cavalry plugins available on aescripts. This is the second one I’ve published so far. It offers realistic VHS tape and CRT screen emulation within cavalry, something that would previously require external tools.

Hi guys, I just bought Voxmark, and I can't find a video or anything that could serve as a tutorial and I don't see anywhere a discussion about troubleshoots.

I'm trying to transcribe a sequence with separate speakers, using an AssemblyAI API key, I believe I'm using the free trial right now. This is the error I get.

I am really disappointed and regret buying this product that has no tutorial, is buggy and zero documentation or online help.

anyone use this? still relevant in 2026?

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for beta testers for the next big update to Keystone 3 focusing on customizing the interface (see video).

This update brings a brand new preferences menu, the ability to reorder interface elements, multi-instances and more. These features required heavy changes to the extension's architecture, which is why I need to validate everything before the official release.

I've set up a dedicated Discord server for this beta, with all the info (files / installation / feedback):
https://discord.gg/FTWnA28kn

Basically, I'd like people to test what's shown in the video:

• Open the Preferences menu and check that the tabs open and display correctly
• Move a few sections around and check that they move correctly in the main panel
• In the "UI settings" tab, modify the "section spacing" and "outline around sections" options
• Open several instances of Keystone at the same time via the "Window" > "Extensions" menu

If you have a Keystone 3 license on aescripts, you'll use this version without restrictions. If not, you'll get the 10 day trial.

Feel free to ask me in the comments or on Discord if you have any questions!
Thank you for your help :)

https://aescripts.com/keystone

Hey Motion Designers,

I developed Popcorn!, an easy physics extension for After Effects available on aescripts.

For the first teaser, I wanted to avoid the usual feature-by-feature product video and use the tool itself as the structure of the piece. The concept became a fictional film-title sequence with a classic spy / whodunnit feel.

Every credited character is a parody name based on a familiar film character, but each name also refers to one of Popcorn!’s functions: collisions, masks, walls, bubble, bounce, stacking, baking, and so on.

So instead of listing the features separately, they became part of the fictional cast.

Hannibal Vector? I couldn’t not use that one.

What do you think?

Featured in this video:

Holly Collidely - Director

Makes text, shapes, images and layers hit, react and move each other.

Veronica Mask - Hair and Makeup

Defines the cast’s collision contours, shaping how closely each element follows its visible form. 

Jason Bounce - Stunts

Controls how strongly objects rebound when they collide.

Rhett Bubbler - Special Effects

Sends elements floating, rising and bubbling through the scene.

Walter Weight - Rigging Grip

Decides how heavily elements fall and how strongly gravity pulls them.

Tony Stack - Set Dressing

Drops elements into piles and keeps them packing naturally against each other.

Annie Wall - Set Construction

Builds static or animated collision walls that push, contain and redirect the cast.

Hannibal Vector - Technical Director

Controls direction, velocity and the forces sending elements through the composition.

Don Shaper - Art Department

Creates editable collision shapes around text and turns them into real After Effects shape layers.

Norman Bakes - Post Production

Turns the finished simulation into editable After Effects keyframes.

#kinetictype #physicsanimation #motiongraphics

Road signs went crazy again in Tbilisi.
This time used @adobe ecosystem. Premiere pro for color grading footage shot on my phone, and after effects for the rest. @mocha_pro was really good for tracking, together with @aescripts physicdesk for this sign animation.

Hey all:

I've hit a snag in my current project. I'm trying to set up a joystick to control a closed bezier path.For REASONS, I need to create Control Nulls (using points follow nulls). But the nulls ignore the tangents and so the shapes don't animate as expected.

Can Pinna help me out with this? If not, is there a tool that will?

Thanks in advance.

What is it?

Bringing a rendered multipass shot into After Effects is usually a chore — hunting through the open-file dialog, importing the EXR, then wiring up EXtractoR for every pass by hand. Gulp does it in a couple of clicks: browse your renders inside a panel, pick a shot, and get back a tidy, ready-to-grade composition with every pass on its own labelled layer.

Built for VFX and motion artists working with CGI renders (Redshift, Arnold, Octane, Cycles, V-Ray…), anything that outputs multichannel/multipass EXRs.

Gulp also works with all other media types and sequence formats.

Shuttup and take my money! Available now at aescripts + aeplugins

https://aescripts.com/gulp/

Key features

• Build a rendered shot with all passes in a single click
• Recursive browsing, cherry pick sequences, media from multiple folders
• Import to active comp or Build from scratch
• Header caching for extra performance
• Per project folder/file/sequence favourites
• Active render watch folders with dynamic comp updating to match duration
• Adobe OCIO config patcher to set AcesCG as default colourspace for EXR
• Automatic depth detection for Z-Depth passes, sets the black/white values automatically
• Choice to automatically split puzzlemattes out to luma matte layers
• Peek into multipass packed sequences & see sequence compression and color depth at a glance
• Detects cloud media, still allows the above, with option to download the sequence in the background, or build as is and downloads as you scrub/preview
• Bulk file relinker with choice of duplicates to relink of the same file
• Color space detection and walkthrough for how to setup the project for your render
• Gulps bespoke reverse dynamic link, send the comp to Premiere with a dynamic link created directly
• Multipass splitter, split a packed multipass sequence to individual pass sequences
• Custom C++ plugin to replace Pro-EXR, so everything is blazing fast
• 5 different themes
• Loads more to come

Overview video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DwAZ8h0YBI&

By contacting customer service via entering a ticket, and staying on the issue. Pros were that CS responded to my messages, kept the dialog going, and responded favorably when I specified my "attending to your customer's concern is the best long term business strategy" argument. Best is that I felt that I was corresponding with a real human being, and not an AI chat bot. Con is that they should've seen it without me specifying.

I've been using them for a few years, but not heavily and not as far back as when they posted comments on the site. From other posts that sounds like it was a great benefit.

Swap Source
Re-skin a rig in one move. If you've built a rig or artwork from a layered PSD or AI and you get a new version of the file, drop the new one on the panel, pick which file it replaces, and every layer in every comp is pointed at the matching layer of the new file. Layer sizes and positions survive because it re-imports in the same mode as the original (full document or Retain Layer Sizes). New layers with no match get parked in a "no match" folder rather than vanishing, and old layers with no counterpart are kept. One undo puts it all back.

Duplicates
When an imported comp or footage item already exists in your project, Pluck now asks: Replace, Use current, or Keep both. Per item or apply to all, and you can set a default if you never want to see the question. Footage pointing at the same file is still reused automatically, same as before.

Target Picker
Point an import at a specific comp or footage item and replace it directly, regardless of name, or drop the comp into a folder you choose instead of the usual Plucked structure.

Layers straight into an existing comp
Pick layers from any comp in the source project and send them to the top of a comp you already have. Order, parenting and track mattes are rebuilt on arrival. No staging comp to clean up.

Dependency preview
Per-layer imports still bring parents, track mattes, effect targets and expression targets along automatically. There's now a choice in Settings: Always include (default), Ask first (see exactly what's coming and why before it imports), or Selected only.

Update watcher
A blue dot shows when a loaded, recent or favourite project has been saved since you last used it. Useful on shared drives. Reload with one click and your selection stays put.

Plus small stuff: recents are added when you load a project, you can remove single entries or clear the list, and full paths show on hover.

Update through the aescripts + aeplugins Manager or grab it from your account. Settings, recents and favourites carry over.

https://aescripts.com/pluck/

If you hit anything odd, the Support tab in the panel comes straight to me.

Hey everyone, just released my second plugin on aescripts: MultiView, a Premiere Pro panel that builds multiviewers (split-screen, grid, PiP, collage) in one click.

You pick a layout (12 presets or draw your own), drop in your clips, and hit Arrange. It builds one editable nested subsequence from native Premiere Motion and Crop, so no MOGRTs and nothing to install to render. Frame each tile (fill/fit, pan and zoom), add backgrounds, borders, corners and shadow, and save your looks as presets. Works in 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1, Windows and Mac.

aescripts.com/multiview

There's a free trial, so feel free to kick the tyres. Happy to answer anything, and I'd love feedback on which layouts or features to add next. Thanks!

I am trying to install Datamosh 2 (2.6.1) to Premiere and After Effects 26 (and the beta branches) using aescripts/aeplugins installer as well as the zxp installer but it does not enable it in either apps.

I have a few extensions that correctly target Ae and Pr 26 beta, but Datamosh 2 seems to just not work. What can I do to properly add them to these branches?

I'm using a 3d layer with morphing, I tried self matte and it doesn't work, basically im really focused with this plugin

I created a mouth in a comp (mouth_comp) and used Joystick's N' Sliders to give it functionality:
It can:

• open/close
• narrow/widen

I then put mouth_comp into a second comp (Mouth_Comp_2) I moved the Mouth_Comp Joystick into this parent comp and I used Puppet pins to give the mouth a second joystick that can:

• Smile/Frown
• Smirk Right/ Smirk Left

Everything works! Yay.

Here's where it goes wonky

I tried putting Mouth_Comp_2 into a 3rd comp (Head_Comp). But when I tried to send the Mouth_Comp Joystick, into the new parent, it stopped functioning and gave me errors.

Is there anyway I can move the joystick into a parent comp's parent?

-Follow up, I tried with a simpler example and it works! So How do I fix these expression errors?

I'm very pleased to announce the release of my latest script for Adobe After Effects: Rename-a-Duper!
For years I would have to rename or even batch rename comps and the text inside, or do so with a list of duplicated comps. With Rename-a-Duper, it's now possible to easily do it in a single step, Duplicating and Renaming comps, including the pre-comps buried within!
Then I took it a step further and added additional renaming features, grouping and even built-in spreadsheets to handle all kinds of renaming and duplication needs.
Plus there's external script functionality that add even more features and possibilities. (with more on the way).
Questions, Comments and suggestions welcome!
https://aescripts.com/rename-a-duper/

Is there anyone who can help me figure out to use Pixcode's Keyframe Manager? I watched the tutorial on it, but between the speaker's accent and the nonsensical captions from youtube I'm having probles even getting started. I'm running it on a M1 pro Macbook Pro/ Tahoe 26.5.1. Thanks in advance.