Expressions projects for After Effects: 30 free project files with notes on what each one demonstrates, linked to their original sources.
30 free project files
okusan721 offers 字送り+, a free effect preset on BOOTH that makes each character of a text layer appear while rattling. Its timing is adjusted in the Amount section of the Expression Selector, where the delay value sets…
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Korean channel 지펀디자인 shares a free text bounce preset for After Effects, made in a tutorial on a copy-and-paste scale bounce expression.
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Enchanted Media shares a free pack of 20 editable text animation comps for After Effects, including elegant character reveals, flickering light effects, smooth rolls and slot-machine flips.
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bentomotion's free After Effects project (2024 or later) recreates Apple's Liquid Glass UI look. It demonstrates glassy refraction, blur and highlights on UI elements, plus a bounce expression that gives the interface…
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This After Effects 2025 project file and .ffx preset were created by John Colombo for the Mograph Mindset tutorial 'Text Style Expressions in After Effects 2025' and are shared through Kyle Hamrick's Gumroad.
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Manuel does Motion shares this free After Effects 2023 project from part one of his Basic Expressions tutorial series. It demonstrates how to add an expression, the time expression, posterizeTime, wiggle and pinning…
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Smertimba Graphics shares this free After Effects project for a bouncy overshoot text animation made without expressions.
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Smertimba Graphics shares the free project file from its tutorial on a 3D stroke logo animation made in After Effects without any plugins.
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SonduckFilm's free After Effects project accompanies the tutorial on a cinematic 3D stroke logo intro made without plugins.
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Manuel does Motion shares this free After Effects 2022 project from his tutorial on animating with the index expression.
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Nick Greenawalt (Motion by Nick) shares this free beginner After Effects project of a seamlessly looping desert day-to-night cycle.
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Creative Dojo shares Numbers+, an After Effects preset built by combining many expressions from CreativeCow and other After Effects forums into one preset for counters, timers and other number animations.
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NoSleepCreative shares the AEP from its tutorial on making an Archimedes spiral with a shape layer and a mathematical expression.
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WOO Visual Art shares this free After Effects CC 2019 project from a short tutorial on three essential expressions: wiggle, loopOut and time.
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Chetal Gazdar provides this free After Effects project file with his tutorial on creating a 2D aim constraint using expressions and simple trigonometry.
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d3luxxxe shares the After Effects project from a tutorial that builds an intricate compass UI entirely from shape layers.
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CGStirk shares this free After Effects project from his tutorial on automating bouncing text in a text animator's Expression Selector.
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d3luxxxe offers this free After Effects project from a tutorial on designing a volume knob UI element with shape layers.
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Dope Motions shares the project file from its tutorial on a dynamic shapes transition, the same transition used in the channel intro.
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Evan Abrams (ECAbrams) shares this free After Effects project (CS5.5 or later) for tutorial 132 on the Math.sin expression.
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Animoplex's free Hex Grid template (v1.3) is a 1920x1080 After Effects project for CS6 and later. It arranges 182 hexagon shape layers into a grid driven by custom Luma and Color source comps, exposes 12 adjustment…
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DXVSH shares a free shape text animation project as part of its #Freebies series. The Dropbox zip contains #Freebies-AAE CS5.aep and a Stroke.mov clip in an Assets folder.
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AE Screens offers Num, a free After Effects preset for formatting and animating numbers. The free version adds commas, controls decimal points, adds $, % and other symbols, sets a fixed number of digits and works with…
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This free After Effects template from Mixkit is a futuristic red HUD lower third with animated elements and loading bars.
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NoSleepCreative shares a set of motion trail animation presets together with the AEP from its two-part tutorial. Part 1 covers the expressions behind the trails and Part 2 covers animating them, and both videos are…
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Kyle Hamrick shares Easy Path Arrow, a preset for After Effects v16.x (CC2019) or newer that uses a few expressions to build an arrow along a shape layer path.
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Kyle Hamrick shares TextSizer, a text preset for After Effects CC2014+ that scales a text layer up or down to fill a chosen width and height.
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d3luxxxe shares the After Effects project for a tutorial on linking various properties to a checkbox. The opacity and position of several layers are connected to a single checkbox expression control, which turns the…
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d3luxxxe shares the After Effects project for a beginner-friendly battery charge animation tutorial. Multiple layers, compositions and their opacity are connected by expressions to a single slider control, so moving…
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Motion by Nick shares the project file for a tutorial on dynamic and reactive shadows and highlights. The setup uses color controllers so the shading can be adjusted across an animation from a few controls.
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