Animation Presets for After Effects: 17 free files to bring into your own work, each with notes on what it contains and what it needs, linked to its original source.
17 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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sycloe offers scl_Film Strip, a free After Effects preset on BOOTH for shape layers; it is applied by creating a new shape layer, opening the Effects & Presets panel and dragging scl_Film Strip onto the layer.
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さくりあ屋 (桜野リア) offers a free animation preset on BOOTH that makes block noise appear behind text in After Effects, and notes that it also works on shapes.
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AP3XZ shares the text animation presets they use in their own edits as a free giveaway for reaching 3,000 subscribers. The Google Drive link labelled Presets delivers Text Animation Preset.rar, which contains four .ffx…
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cano offers a free After Effects preset on BOOTH for a coloured afterimage motion; the download file is named 色付き残像テキストモーション.zip (coloured afterimage text motion).
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Japanese creator Putti Monkey Wrench shares After Effects transition presets in .ffx format on BOOTH, made in After Effects 2023 at 1920×1080 and 30fps and stated to work at other 16:9 composition sizes.
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ねこくさのAE Garage offers a free effect preset for After Effects on BOOTH that throws the layer it is applied to according to the laws of physics.
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Japanese shop Guild offers a free camera shake preset for After Effects on BOOTH that creates camera vibration and hand-held shake effects.
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Polygon Motions shares a free pack of 15 text animation presets for After Effects, stated to be for personal and commercial use.
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Tylo FX shares a free transition pack for After Effects and shows in the video how to use the presets. The Google Drive archive (after effect transitions.rar) contains 12 .ffx files: slide down, slide left, slide right…
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Creative Dojo shares Typeflow, a text preset for After Effects for smooth type animations, fully rigged with overshoot and timing controls so that no keyframes are required.
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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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ファイアー飯塚スタジオ shares the animation presets the author uses often as a free collection on BOOTH. The zip (ファイアー飯塚_アニメーションプリセット集.zip, 20 KB) contains 11 presets: anime_BlurIn_Horizon and anime_BlurIn_Vertical (appear with a…
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PremiumBeat's blog, in a post by Caleb Ward, gives away PremiumGrades, a set of 20 free colour grading presets for After Effects designed to be dragged and dropped onto layers.
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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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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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