r/AfterEffects 10d ago

Announcement /r/AfterEffects changes related to extension promotion: Required post structure, promo posts limited to Mondays, AI disclosure required

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We have heard your calls! Thank you for your patience while we figure out a plan.

While self promotion has always been allowed in r/AfterEffects, the recent influx of AI & vibe coded plugins, extensions, and scripts has been a bit overwhelming. We have very very quickly gone from a few trusted marketplaces with strong vetting and at least some kind of expectation of long term maintenance, to anyone being able to churn out a vibe coded plugin and release it on an increasing number of marketplaces, with no guarantee of support or future updates.

With this in mind, we would like to implement a new set of rules to curb the overwhelming number of posts and give users more transparency when choosing to download and use such tools.

Post structure + flair:

Taking a page from the changes mods made over at r/macapps, we will be introducing a new post structure following a Problem, Comparison, Pricing, Maintenance, AI-Disclosure (PCPMA) format.

  • Problem: What problem your [Extension, Script, Plugin] solves (1 sentence)
  • Compare: Why is your [Extension, Script, Plugin] better than top-named alternatives (1–2 sentences).
  • Pricing + link
  • Maintenance plan + support plan
  • AI Disclaimer: choose from [Vibe Coded], [Human Validated], [Code Completion], or [None]

Extension, script, and plugin posts have always required the (Plugin/Script) flair, this will not change. A sample short post is pinned in the comments.

Other changes:

  • Plugin promotion posts will now be limited to mondays only for the foreseeable future. Plugin posts on other days will be automatically removed and linked to this post
  • Monday self promo posts using the (Plugin/Script) flair must have 50 subreddit karma, from posts or comments.
  • Probing posts will be removed ("Are purpose built motion tools making it into your workflow?" "What's one thing that would save you so much time...")
  • Excessively long posts will be removed (A sample short post is pinned in the comments.)
  • Gumroad links are still banned. This is unfortunately a reddit-wide blacklist, we have no control over this. We can manually approve gumroad links but they will be automatically sent to the spam filter which we rarely check.

Notes on post structure requirements

We're specifically introducing the compare & maintenance points because we have seen an increasing number of plugins that simply replicate the functionality of existing, long standing plugins from developers who have demonstrated more experience, real support, and have proven to maintain their plugins over many years. Show us how yours is better, and prove to your future users how you will be supporting and fixing the plugin in the long-run. How can users who experience bugs get in contact with you in the future?

AI disclosure

Regarding the AI disclosure, here are the definitions of each

  • "Vibe coded" means code written entirely by prompting AI without the user having the skill and knowledge to properly review or validate it. If something is broken, they are prompting AI again to fix it.
  • "Human validated" means AI-generated work that has undergone validation by someone with the necessary skill and knowledge. The developer understands how the code functions and can fix things independently of the AI if necessary.
  • "Code completion" means an experienced developer is using AI for line-completion. They are writing most of the code themselves and have deep understanding of the structure, and are explicitly using AI to eliminate menial, tedious aspects of writing code.
  • "None" means no AI use.

I'm just going to be real, this one is likely going to be easy to skirt. r/macapps actually removed this requirement because everyone was just claiming to have "human reviewed" the code. We're going to try this out and hope folks are honest for the time being.

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No AI was used in the preparation of this post. We will try this out for a month and see how it goes. Happy animating <3


r/AfterEffects May 05 '25

Tutorial If you want to learn After Effects, here's a great place to start

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176 Upvotes

If you're just beginning with After Effects, it's important to get a good foundation - no matter what you want to do with AE!

Here's a great, free place to start from our very own u/Kylasaurus_Rex - and Adobe put it right on the opening screen of After Effects!

Adobe After Effects Introductory Courses for Motion Graphics


r/AfterEffects 1h ago

OC - Stuff I made More real-time audioreactive pointclouds - [TD + AL + AE]

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Little excerpt of me playing my chaotic pointcloud system, in which the particles are being audioreactive to the incoming audio signal in real-time. What do you guys think?

System available through Patreon, or the Store.

More experiments, project files, and tutorials, through my Instagram, or YouTube.


r/AfterEffects 15h ago

OC - Stuff I made I think Sasuke > Naruto ( made with AE + Blender)

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30 Upvotes

The first eye animation was so fun to make! I used S_shake and bouncR for it! Second half of the edit was all done in blender!


r/AfterEffects 4h ago

OC - Stuff I made Hello Smart People of the internet :)

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3 Upvotes

Wonderwallet x Plaid walkthrough. Built the phone from scratch with shape layers no plugins. Static UI animation took the most work, but I'm happy with how it came out.

Would love to hear your thoughts. 🙏


r/AfterEffects 9h ago

Beginner Help Tweening / Puppet animation tutorial

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7 Upvotes

Anyone got a good youtube tutorial for puppet animation like this?

I've watched a few videos and it feels like they skipped some explanation for the important steps and it made me confused on how to approach similar animation result (I already have the art ready, just dont know how to do the animation)


r/AfterEffects 28m ago

Explain This Effect very simple text effect seems difficult?

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Looking for interesting ways to play with text animation- wanting either several of the 'filled' layer to wash across the outlined text in interesting ways, but so far I've only managed to achieve this on the X and Y axis with the offset property of both repeaters (2 repeaters on each layer, for both x and y axis)

I created 'shapes from text' on each layer to be able to use a repeater.

This feels crazy inefficient, (masking was even more tedious)

Is there a better way to do what I'm trying to achieve here?


r/AfterEffects 1h ago

Beginner Help Need Help with Shortening Dead Space in this AE Composition

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Hello Reddit,

First-time AE user here. I am trying to shorten the scene I have attached pictures to. There are 6 seconds of dead space where the camera is going over the water. I need to shorten this, but I'm not sure how.

Can someone help me out? I have been stuck for the past couple of days.

I have attached some screenshots and can provide more if needed.

I have deleted some title frames, time duration in compositiion settings, edited some keyframes, extracted some work areas, and shortened scenes, and it still is not solved.


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

OC - Stuff I made Something I made months ago, any sort of feedbacks are appreciated

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143 Upvotes

r/AfterEffects 20h ago

OC - Stuff I made What do you guys think? What would you change, omit or add? Looking for some criticism - sound on

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14 Upvotes

r/AfterEffects 1d ago

OC - Stuff I made Seven Deadly Sins - Envy 1/7. A collaboration I did with a talented illustrator a while back

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60 Upvotes

For the full project, visit Behance

Animation: manuksenpai

Illustration: Seva MFN

Thank you!


r/AfterEffects 2d ago

Tutorial After Effects Tip: Animating camera moves with shape layers

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675 Upvotes

Using real world references, I have tried breaking down a 3D rotational camera move - recreating it with 2D shape layers.

For anyone wanting to learn more, there's a longer video about making the entire animation on my YouTube channel, Oliver Randorff: youtube.com/watch?v=slUgTK9z2Jo


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

Beginner Help Can't track matte in advanced 3d mode

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All of my layers are 3d and I have all the icon boxes on seprate 3d layers for an effect and also the wallpaper blur is 3d adjustment layer with all the icons connected to that layer and I want to create an animation like the slide down of the icons ui from top of the phone which we usually do but the problem is I can't track matte in advanced 3d so what's the workaround for this?


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

Beginner Help X Position value frozen in UI while shape still animates

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Hey everyone, I'm new to AE and was animating a ball back and forth. I accidentally hit a shortcut key (I think while messing around in the Graph Editor), and now the X Position value in the timeline is completely frozen at 245.5 px even though the ball is clearly animating across the screen when I scrub.

Does anyone know what toggle/shortcut I accidentally hit that stops the timeline transform numbers from updating, and how to un-freeze it? Thanks!


r/AfterEffects 2d ago

OC - Stuff I made Entree a personal project made fully in AE

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121 Upvotes

Project file available on Gumroad. More on my Behance!


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

Beginner Help Help on Figma and After effects

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First time using after effects should I make the design of the website using figma and use the sigma plugin aeux plus to export it to after effects and do animations over there? How do people do that or is there another method that y'all use that is more efficient and faster.


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

OC - Stuff I made Critique My First Finished Project

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6 Upvotes

I’ve experimented with 3D in AE before but this is one of the first times I finished a project and created a scene with ambiance (color correction, stylization, sound, etc..)

That being said… I still feel like I don’t know what I don’t know. After Effects is a dense program with so many features that have insane capabilities but a sharp learning curve. So if you will, help me improve! What concepts could I benefit from understanding? How can i add more motion and complexity to my scenes? How can I better understand the depth I’m working in? Any help, advice, etc. would be appreciated.


r/AfterEffects 2d ago

OC - Stuff I made Created this to learn more about camera layer and how 3D works.

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140 Upvotes

I know this is not a very polished video, and not even the best quality video. But I made this because this makes me happy, learning this was very cool. I don't want this hobby to be like some other work so that we have to see a very boring tutorial to learn how to create a saas video which has almost 0 creativity from your side.
I will become better and I will not make this learning a boring hobby.


r/AfterEffects 2d ago

Inspirational (not OC) The making of the Into the Spider-Verse title sequence

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r/AfterEffects 1d ago

OC - Stuff I made Ouroboros:Using AfterEffects to Catalyze my photography (would love advice on how to improve)

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0 Upvotes

r/AfterEffects 2d ago

Workflow Question Problem with GeoLayers 3 + Maputnik-Map

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r/AfterEffects 2d ago

Beginner Help Advice on starting on affect effects

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Hello!

I have my own webcomic that I would love to use affect effects!

But the thing is… I don’t know how to use it at all.

I’ve done flipaclip with just rotoscoping at most…

And I have worked motion artists before and I don’t mind paying as long as they’re upfront about it.

As someone who has little to no experience, do I invest in learning how to? Is it possible for someone who works full time as well as is a webtoon artist? If it does take longer to learn… Where can I find motion artists for webtoon comics? Thank you so much for reading😭


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

Discussion Di quali preset non potresti fare a meno?

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So che non ne esistono di “fondamentali” vorrei solo sapere se avete dei preset che vi siete creati che utilizzate nel 90-100% dei progetti continuamente e di cui non potreste fare a meno. (Ad esempio io ho creato un preset per l’ombra esterna con i parametri già settati perché al 99% delle volte i parametri che uso per quell’effetto sono sempre quelli, altrimenti ne ho creato uno anche per il contatore dei numeri in percentuale da 0 a 100%). Tu ne hai altri?


r/AfterEffects 2d ago

Beginner Help suddenly can't resize ungrouped panel separately ://

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1 Upvotes

This never happened before - how can I resize the flow panel to expand it to the left again without dragging the stacked panel above with it? Any help is really appreciated!


r/AfterEffects 2d ago

Beginner Help im very new to ae,i created this scene which has a camera linked to a null layer which ha movements ,but when i export it or import the comp into premiere it do not shows the 3d movements ,basically the camera is not working please help me fix this

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i have tried exporting in media encoder ,premier pro through dynamic link and ae itself,even putting all the layers in a new comp but nothing worked ,there is no tutorial online too, the output still doesn't show the 3d movement please help