Free After Effects projects (.aep) from tutorial creators, Adobe sample files and legitimate template sites: motion graphics, typography, expressions and VFX setups.
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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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Lyric Video Design (A/V Visual Design) shares a short kinetic typography template as a free download for personal and commercial projects, asking for channel credit.
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DeltaTuto shares ten free presets for After Effects as .ffx files, with a .zip and a .rar copy on MediaFire. The presets have names such as Cool Summer, Dark Forest, Green light, Horror, Sunny and Action Movie.
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s1lax shares the exact After Effects project files (2023 or later) from the 'Grow Effect' tutorial posted on Instagram. The pack shows how the grow animation is set up with no plugins, and it bundles the .aep with three…
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mikonskey shares this free After Effects 22.3 project file (PF) of a kinetic-typography lyric PV on BOOTH. The motion is built mainly with a camera and null layers for group control, and the file is meant for studying…
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Putti Monkey Wrench shares this free After Effects 2023 practice file on BOOTH for the YouTube tutorial 'Graph Editor – Practical Edition'.
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fried-potato.club offers this free After Effects template (2019 or later) of a soap bubble on BOOTH. The bubble, with its spherical refraction and highlights, is made only with After Effects' basic features, so the…
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xavmotion shares this free After Effects project of a cyclist character rigged with the Duik rigging tool. Opening the .aep lets you study how the character rig is set up, but the Duik script must be installed for the…
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Plugin Everything released this free After Effects project of 20 displacement-map transitions to celebrate Displacer Pro v1.5.
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BlueTeam shares this free After Effects project (AEP) showing a basic setup of the Grid Dynamics flocking system in Trapcode Particular.
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This free After Effects template from Mixkit, made by @blaqmatrix, is a video mask title with bold heading text and sliding transitions.
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Mixkit's free After Effects template 'Splash Logo Reveal', created by @MographMotions, uses colorful ink splashes that lead into a logo reveal and wipe.
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Mixkit offers this free After Effects template by @AurJas, a minimal audio visualizer with a downward-facing spectrum animation and a tagline.
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Mixkit's own free After Effects template 'Neon Logo Reveal' is a quick, colorful neon glow logo reveal that fades to black.
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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, made by contributor @Hushahir, is a liquid shape transition that spills between clips.
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This free After Effects template from Mixkit, made by contributor @premiumilk, is a static glitch transition with distortion.
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This free After Effects template from Mixkit, made by contributor @edum, animates simple text lines together with a form for a cinematic title.
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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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Animoplex shares UI Text Presets, a collection of three free text presets inspired by futuristic user interfaces. The presets are installed in the After Effects User Presets folder and are compatible with CS5.5 or later.
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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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Motion by Nick shares a project file of 3D text animation examples that accompanies a YouTube tutorial on 3D text animators in After Effects.
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Chunk shares a free After Effects project with a procedural, colourful power-up particle system that needs no external plugins.
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Chunk shares a pack of ten free gradient map presets that use the built-in Colorama effect in After Effects. Each preset is editable and is applied to a single adjustment layer on top of a design.
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Chunk shares a free After Effects preset that adds dynamic and colourful shadows to a layer, with controls included to speed up fine-tuning.
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Creative Dojo shares the Dojo Preset Pack, a growing collection of its After Effects presets. It currently includes 2D Cloud Maker (CC 14+), Spirograph (CC 18+), BG Remover (CC+) and Typer (CC 14+), with the minimum…
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The Video Shop shares a free project for animating letters formed from dots along their paths. Each letter has its own comp with custom controls for the number of dots, their size, which can be randomised, and the…
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Evan Abrams (ECAbrams) shares the project file for his Connect Dots After Effects tutorial, number 098 in his tutorial project file series.
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Evan Abrams (ECAbrams) shares the project file for his tutorial on long shadows made with the shape layer Repeater, number 094 in his tutorial project file series.
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Motion by Nick shares a customizable gradient preset for After Effects that is applied with one click. The product page explains where to place the preset, in the Support Files Presets folder on Windows or the Presets…
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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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Manuel does Motion shares a connected dots animation as an After Effects 26 project file. The licence allows the project to be used in any personal or commercial work and changed freely, but not resold, shared on…
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Kyle Hamrick shares the project files for #Textperiments, more than 32 abstract animations that are each built around a single After Effects text layer.
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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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Creative Dojo shares a preset that makes a layer responsive, dynamically resizing it to fit a set width or height. It was designed for text layers but works with most layers, which helps lower thirds and fixed-size…
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