Top 20 Free After Effects Plugins You Need in 2022

Here are the 20 best free plugins for Adobe After Effects. These plugins will save you time, improve your workflow, fix missing features in After Effects & unlock new possibilities for your animation and motion graphics.

❤ My Master Motion Design course:

Plugins Featured:

Reposition Anchor Point
by Nab

Create 3D Shapes
by Nab

Decompose Text
By Nab

AE Juice Gif
by AE juice

rd: Composition Setter
by Jeffrey Almasol

Advanced Selection
By Gregor Urable

Bendy Nulls
by MW motion

Shape Repeater Baker

Rigged Box
By Slemmer Creative

Type Array
Also By Slemmer Creative

Displacer Pro
By PluginEverything

Sortie
By Michael Delaney

Rift
By Michael Delaney

True comp duplicator
By Brennan Chapman

Hylian
By BattleAxe

Buttcapper
By BattleAxe

Saber
by Video CoPilot

Orb
by Video CoPilot

Duik Bassel 2
By RainboxLab

Limber (Affiliate link )
By Steve Kirby & Mike Overbeck

FX Console
By VideoCoPilot

Ease Copy
By Mike Overbeck

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:43 Create a GIF in After Effects
00:50 Rounding Stokes & Caps
01:04 Advanced Displacement & Datamosh Effect
01:21 Separate Text into Words & Characters
01:28 Create 3D Shapes
01:35 Move/Reposition Anchor Point
01:43 Adjust Multiple Comp Settings
01:54 Select Multiple Layers by Property
02:05 Bend Layers
02:14 Break Apart Shape Repeaters
02:23 Easy UI Rectangle Animation
02:36 Easier Type Animation
02:48 Sort Layers in your Timeline
03:04 Advanced Sequencing of Layers in Timeline
03:16 Duplicate Nested Compositions
03:35 Link Properties of Duplicated Layers
03:52 Create advanced lighting & Energy effects
04:07 Create Photorealistic planets
04:17 In-Depth Character Rigging & Animation
04:35 Simple Intuitive Character Rigging
04:45 Search Effects Toolbar, Save Favourites & Take Screen Captures
05:24 Copy Easing & Motion Curves between Keyframes

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►Music:
Massive thanks to madmomentsgo for providing that amazing music for my intro!

[maczima]

I appreciate how there’s no ads, thanks.

[BenMarriott]

I'd highly encourage anyone to support the developers with a name your price option by paying what you can, even if you test it out for free first. It keeps the ecosystem of the community a cycle of generousity. Thanks to all these developers that make our jobs easier. :)

[JoseFlores-ftcm]

Like 2 minutes in and you've solved the issues I was having. I didn't realize that box for showing what was going on was there, I didn't

[mrCetus]

Loveee how fast paced these videos are. I get tired of waiting on other youtubers to get to the point. Appreciate what you are doing.

[lyzawastaken]

i have no idea why, but hearing your voice just makes feel soothed.

[mnumrqz]

Amazing Ben!, I'm jumping on AE right now to try them all, thank you for sharing 🙌, best teacher ever.

[adrienvidal]

i've been ssing around on a friends soft soft for years, finally bought it. I found your videos and instantly subscribed and have been

[SimsMagicMovies]

TNice tutorials is actually a very good and straight forward tutorial. No having ask questions or guess, no over-explaining elents, and brings

[kurnikoff]

I use a a number of those plugins daily, but I discovered 2-3 that I could use in my workflow. Thanks Ben :)
Also, I find it weird and ironic that Adobe didn't implement bunch of those plugins natively inside AE already :P

[ArvaldsMukans]

I came here thinking I would maybe find 1 good plugin, but I left with 5 new plugins downloaded. Amazing stuff.

[OathkeeperPab]

The ease copy is the icing on the cake. I've dreamt with this possibility by years! Thanks 4 the tips :)

[bayonavictordanielangeles]

So far the only tutorial I've seen that takes it slow and doesn't require prior experience to soft design.

[paulvansommeren]

I can't live without FX Console, my life is a mess on AE versions without that plugin.

[jsrvikassharma]

You are a very gifted teacher. I've been teacNice tutorialng soft for over 50 years and really appreciate your video being a beginner in soft soft.

[stanculescus]

Thanks Ben, I absolutely love your top 4 pick. I will try them all! Keep up the good work :)

[s.m]

thank you very much friend, I urgently needed to update my drives and you saved me, THANK YOU SO MUCH

[moonkute]

OMG the 5:15 is exactly the plug in I need for my life !!! Thank you so muchhh !!! 😭 I have been searching for it !!!

[Stavisual]

Actually works.. Just disable the real time protection in Setting. Wasnt sure that it would work .Awesome bruh..

[avashbasnet]

Honestly once explained it's fairly intuitive. Thank you for breaking it down so nicely for us newbies! Can't wait to play with the full version

[shivakivines]

Hey. Seriously. Thank you. I just downloaded soft and I can CLEARLY see why your vid was recomnded. You're an aweso intro into