Magnus is a sports inspired, geometric typeface. It's uppercase only but does feature numbers and some punctuation. With a slider you can set the line width or weight of the typeface. This scales inwards, leaving the width of the characters intact. Timing can be customized by setting the time it takes for segments to move in place, and setting the time between the segments. The easing can be switched on or off with a checkbox. Another checkbox let's you choose if the segments should move in from above or below.

Designers:
Calango
Linn Fritz

Magnus Customizable Features

• 1 Color
• Line width
• Color
• Slanting
• Duration per segment
• Stagger per segment
• Easing
• Invert direction
• Optimized to work with Characteristic

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Mantis is a geometric monoline typeface with rounded line caps. It features upper- and lowercase, numbers, basic punctuation and symbols. Go from hairline to black with the animatable stroke width. The completion slider gives you full control over the in- and out-animations. Combine these two for a wide array for smooth reveals. Or take it one step further by layering different widths on top of each other to get an inline or overlap style.

Designers:
Calango

Mantis Customizable Features

• Color
• Completion
• Stroke Width
• Optimized to work with Characteristic

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Moshun is the first animated typeface by Calango, and has therefore received a decent amount of press coverage over the years. It’s a display typeface with simple but elegant animations.

Designer: Jeroen Krielaars

Moshun - Customizable Features

• 3 colors
• Optimized to work with Characteristic

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Novecento sans is a caps + small-caps font family inspired on European typographic tendencies between the second half of 19th century and first half of the 20th. It looks rational and geometric. However, it is optically corrected and balanced. This font face is designed to be used mostly for headlines, visual identities or short sentences, both in big and small sizes.

The static version of Novecento sans is very versatile: lighter faces provide a more contemporary and design, while the bolder ones definitely look retro. Novecento family was spaced and kerned with love and patience; each font has between 700 and 1050 kerning pairs. This font is available for licensing in opentype and webfont format, as well as for mobile apps, ebooks and for software embedding.

For the animated version, the bold wide variant has been given some smooth faux 3D transitions. By offsetting the timing of the individual elements, the type gets more playful. With offset value at zero, you'll get solid 3D looking glyphs that rotate and wobble in place. A different out animation allows you to make the type disappear is gracefully as it appears.

Designers: Jan Tonellato (design), Alexey Schipachev (animation)

Isotype Customizable Features

• 3 Colors
• Offset value
• Rest time
• Optimized to work with Characteristic

Static version

Novecento Sans has a 32 different styles, ranging from wide to condensed, and ultralight to ultrabold. 6 of these are free. You can find them here.

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Typography + origami + kirigami = Typogami. Typogami is a unique display-typeface with 2.5D functionality. Each glyph starts out as a rectangular piece of paper before folding to it's final form.

Designer: Jeroen Krielaars

Typogami - Customizable Features

• completion (0 - 100% slider)
• 2 colors
• fold angle
• shadow darkness & softness
• Light Position
• Optimized to work with Font Manager

Static version

The static version is a tri-colored OpenType typeface, that consists of three separate fonts, that need to be stacked in order to form the full typeface.

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Webster is an extensive animated typeface with a nerdy look. It comes with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation and special characters. All together it counts 161 glyphs. With 13 customizable features, you can create over a gazillion looks. That's right, over a gazillion!

Designer: Jeroen Krielaars

Webster - Customizable Features

• scatter amount
• wiggle amount & speed
• dot size & roundness
• line width & trimming
• face opacity, wipe, wipe angle & wipe feather
• 6 colors
• Optimized to work with Font Manager

Webster Lite Version

Webster Lite is a trimmed down version of Webster. It features all of the functionality of it's big brother, but it got rid of the faces. This makes it cheaper and faster to render.

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A modern day sans serif typeface, inspired by the Swiss style of typography. Voyager typeface is a contemporary geometric, versatile, modern sans-serif typeface. Highly legible across a variety of sizes. Included in the family is uppercase, lowercase characters, numerals, international characters, punctuation marks and ligatures. The animated version sports the bold weight, but the static version includes five weights plus the matching italics.

Designers: Maarten van 't Wout (alumia.nl) and Gilles Kergadallan (superslick.tv)

Voyager - Customizable Features

• Main color
• Stroke Color
• Stroke Width
• Optimized to work with Font Manager

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FatFrank is a big-boned and friendly typeface that comes in animated and static versions.

Designers: Jeffrey Schreiber and Oliver Dead

Fat Frank - Customizable Features

• 4 colors
• Optimized to work with Font Manager

Static version

Includes static OpenType font (.otf)

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Pixelar is a modular animated pixel typeface with separate static OTF font. The characters are constructed from 50 unique animated squares. These animated squares can also be used to construct your own typography, pixel-art or transitions. The animated typeface includes uppercase, lowercase, numbers, accents, punctuation and special characters. 8 customizable colors give it a nice and vibrant look. The vector shapes stay sharp at any size.

Designers:
Pablo Balcells
Jeroen Krielaars

Pixelar - Customizable Features

• 8 colors
• Optimized to work with Font Manager

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Mobilo Regular is the companion typeface to Mobilo Bold Animated which is a project by Animography to explore the balance between randomness and a systematic approach in type-design and animation.

The animated regular weight and static font are the perfect companions to the free bold version and are sure to deliver some visual balance to your project. You can download the free Animated Bold version from Animography.

Designers:
concept: Jeroen Krielaars
type design: Alfredo Marco Pradil (Hanken Co.)
music & sound design / Clark Rhee

Mobilo Regular - Features

• Optimized to work with Font Manager

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Barbour is a classy & elegant stencil serif static and animated typeface. Its 213 animated glyphs are designed by Timo Kuilder and animated by Philip von Borries. With its luxurious feel and subtle animations it is very suitable for fashion and premium lifestyle brands.

Designers:
Timo Kuilder
Philip von Borries

Barbour - Customizable Features

• 1 color
• Optimized to work with Font Manager

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Ever needed to animate isometric illustrations along a particular axis?

If that's your case, you might have found it a bit tedious to keep control of the alignment between different layers. If it's not your case, tell me your secret!

While playing around with some expressions I created a way to simplify this process. It's a simple script that lets you constrain movement in the 3 axes of the isometric drawing.

Just import your illustrations, select the layers you want to animate, click the "Rig" button and that's it, you get 3 sliders to control the position in the X, Y and Z axes in isometric 2D space for each layer. 

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If you find this script useful for your workflow and want to contribute, you can name your own price. This is my first script and I value all the support that you could give me financially or through feedback so I can improve over time.

Installation

1. Copy the included Isometric Rigger.jsx file to:
   Windows: \Program Files\Adobe\[YOUR ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS VERSION]\Support Files\Scripts\ScriptUI Panels
   Mac: /Applications/[YOUR ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS VERSION]/Scripts/ScriptUI Panels
2. Restart After Effects if it's already running
3. Go to the Window menu and select Isometric Rigger
4. Dock the panel wherever you like
5. Select a layer (or multiple layers) and click on the Rig button
6. Aaand that's it, have fun!

I have only tested it in After Effects CC on my PC, but it should also work on MAC and be compatible with After Effects CS6 and previous CC versions.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 Alejandro Sanclemente

Projection makes light work of camera mapping onto 3D planes in After Effects CS6 and CC. It was created with the release of After Effects CS6, which introduced the 3D Camera Tracker, a built-in matchmover. But Projection works equally well with imported match-move data from programs such as Syntheyes, Boujou and PF Track.

Projection makes a variety of compositing tasks much easier. Once arduous tasks, like floor replacements, tracking mark removal and set-extensions are made much easier with Projection.

By projecting the camera's view onto a match-moved surface, Projection effectively creates a plate from a moving shot - a static overhead view of part of the moving image. That makes altering that part of the image child's play. For instance, tracking marks in a shot can now be removed with a single quick paint stroke, taking seconds instead of hours.

Projection is also great fun for other motion graphic orientated tasks. For instance, have some fun and create funky parallax tricks and other trick shots, create believable reflections on Ae geometry objects and even create tilt / shift effects.

Some of these applications are demonstrated in the two Projection demos. Don't forget to check them out.

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The rough vectorized brush strokes of Bad Romance are at their best with a bit of randomness in position, size and rotation. It also pairs really well with clean sans serifs for some nice contrast in typographic classifications. Or add a hard drop shadow to get that nice grindhouse film title style.

Designers: Natanael Ginting

Customizable Features

• 1 color
• Optimized to work with Font Manager

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AutoSway lets you easily make your layers sway!

Easy setup

• Puppet Pin Tool mode:  just apply pins
• Layer mode: multiple layers can be swayed in 2D or 3D

Usage instructions

Puppet Pin tool

1. Apply Puppet Pins from the start point to the end point on the layer you wish to sway
2. Select all Puppet Pins that you wish to have sway, click the [apply] button. 
3. Select the [SwayControl] layer and adjust the sway. 

Layer mode

This mode allows linking and swaying of multiple layers as opposed to the Puppet Pin Tool mode which can only sway one layer.
It can sway in 2D or 3D as well as bending and twisting. 
There are also tools to help divide and duplicate layers.  

1. Select the layers you wish to have sway.
2. Select the layer you wish to be the start point first, and the one you wish to be end point last. 
3. Click the apply button. 
4. Select the [SwayControl] layer, and adjust the sway. 

Now your layers can happily sway in the wind!

If you use an earlier version than AfterEffectsCC, please do the installation of PseudoEffects from the Option menu of AutoSway.

AutoSway sample project file

New future! v1.81

1. Bake function
   By converting AutoSway's movement into a keyframe, it can be put together into one layer. Besides looking a lot tidier, putting everything into one layer lightens the load on your system's resources by reducing the calculation time required for Expression. The properties that can be Baked are the Effects and Transformations (excluding Opacity) in the SwayControl layer added by AutoSway.
    
   
    
2. Unbake function
   This function restores your Baked layers to their pre-Baked state.
   This includes the values set in the SwayControl layer as well as the keyframe information.
   It is used when adjusting AutoSway movement a second time.
   
   
   
   
3. PseudoEffects
   The effect items that are applied by AutoSway have become much easier to see.
   
   
   
   
4. Decay
   Setting Decay single keyframe.
   From the position where the setting has been determined, Decay will be started.
   
    

ロープや髪の毛など、ゆらゆらと揺れる表現を簡単に設定できるAE用スクリプト「AutoSway」
パペットピンツールを使用してピンを打ち、スクリプトを適用するだけで簡単にセットアップできます。
また、レイヤーモードでは、複数のレイヤーを繋ぐことができ、２Dから３Dの揺れも表現可能です！

■使用方法(パペットピンツールの場合)

　1.スクリプトを適用したいレイヤーに始点から終点にかけてパペットピンを打つ。
　2.揺らしたい全てのパペットピンを選択し、[実行]ボタンを押す。
　3.[揺れ制御]レイヤーを選択し、揺れ方の調整を行う。

AutoSwayを適用していないピンがあれば、それを元に新たにAutoSwayを適用することもできます。

■使用方法(レイヤーモードの場合)

パペットピンを使用する通常のモードとは異なり、複数のレイヤーをリンクさせて揺らすモードです。
2D の揺れや 3D での揺れを表現することができます。
また、揺らす以外にもレイヤーを曲げる、捻る事にも使用できます。

　1.揺らしたいレイヤーを複数選択する。
   　始点にするレイヤーを最初に選択し、終点にするレイヤーは最後に選択してください。
　2.レイヤーモードの実行ボタンを押す。
　3.[揺れ制御]レイヤーを選択し、揺れ方の調整を行う。

　たったのこれだけでセットアップ完了！

また、レイヤーを分割するツールや複製するツールもついています。

※AfterEffects CS6以前のバージョンをご使用の方は、AutoSwayのOptionメニューからPseudoEffectsのインストールを行ってください。

New アップデート! v1.81

1. Bake機能
   AutoSwayの動きをキーフレームに変換し、1レイヤーにまとめる機能です。
   複数のレイヤーが一つになり、見た目がスッキリするのに加え、Expressionによる計算がなくなるため動作が軽くなります。
   なお、Bakeが可能なプロパティは制御レイヤー内のAutoSwayによって追加されたエフェクトとトランスフォーム(不透明以外)です。
    
   
    
2. Unbake機能
   BakeしたレイヤーをBake前の状態に復元する機能です。
   揺れ制御レイヤーに設定した値だけでなく、キーフレーム情報も復元します。
   再度AutoSwayの動きを調整する時に使用します。
   
   
   
   
3. PseudoEffects
   AutoSwayで適用されるエフェクトの項目がすっきりと見やすくなりました。
   
   
   
   
4. 減衰
   減衰にキーフレームを一つだけ設定すると、
   設定した箇所から減衰が始まり、揺れが徐々に停止します。
   
   

The Pixel Cloud plugin for After Effects is a powerful compositing tool that allows you to relight a 3D generated image, make 3D aware selections or displace the pixels in 3D space. Combine the use of a Position Pass and a Normal Pass with the power of After Effects' 3D lights and cameras and change the lighting of your composited 3D graphics.

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This native plugin for After Effects can use the coordinate information from a Position Pass or depth map to generate a Pixel Cloud in 3D space. This Pixel Cloud can be viewed from all angles using AE's own cameras. With a Normal Pass, the Pixel Cloud can be relit using After Effects' own lights or using an image as an Image Based Light. There are a number of uses from 3D compositing to motion graphics!

Features

• Relighting with 32-bit passes
• Use AE Lights and Cameras
• Support for falloff lighting in CS5.5 and CS6
• Diffuse
• Specularity
• Image Based Lighting
• Reflection
• Alpha Lights for matte generation
• Support for falloff in CS5.5 and above
• Pixel Cloud generation with 8bpc to 32bpc
• 3D Displacement
• Pixel Texturing
• Lo-res Preview modes
• Multiprocessor compatible

Generating the position pass can be done in various 3D software packages. In Cinema 4D you may use the PointPosition C4D plugin.   For Maya, you may use the Point World output of a samplerInfo node connected to a surface shader and render an EXR using mental ray and the 32-bit framebuffer. There are also a variety of tutorials available.   For 3DS Max, you may add the XYZ Generator shader to the surface slot of a mental ray material. Set its Coordinate System to 3 and render to an EXR using the floating point framebuffer.

Tutorials

Relight tutorial
Depth Map displacement tutorial
Export PPass from C4D to use in Pixel Cloud
Alpha Lights in Pixel Cloud
Animating a Photo

Pixel Cloud Render Only License.

This license can only be used on headless render machines using the command line renderer: aerender and you must own at least 1 full license of Pixel Cloud in order to purchase them.

Where can I purchase a normal full license?

You can purchase a normal full Pixel Cloud license here.

Font Previewer Lite plugin allows you to preview fonts in After Effects. Windows & MacOs compatible.

Check the Pro version with more features: Font Previewer

 Features:

- Font preview (3 sample text mode)

- Search font by keyword

- 3 color themes (dark/default/light)

Light and shade are subtle things. They allow us to perceive a scene in all manner of different ways - it conveys a sense of position, of placement and closeness of objects to one another, of time of day, and of atmosphere. When you look at an image, it's hard to put your finger on all these subtleties, but you can be sure of one thing… you miss them when they are not there!

In CG, good illumination can simply mean the difference between things looking real and things looking unreal. Control of the lighting is a must for making a scene look good and it's a double-must for believably compositing CG created stuff into shot footage.

Illumination adds a new dimension of lighting control to After Effects. By automating the creation and control of banks of point lights, Illumination brings a new type of lighting to AE - the softbox. Soft lights mean soft shadows, making objects feel much more believable.

Illumination's softbox lights are centrally controllable from 3D layers - not only their positioning in space is controllable from the control layer, but also brightness, shadow darkness and shadow diffusion. What's more, the lights take their color from the underlying layer, so you can create amazing gradient lighting, soft ambient shadows and daylight effects easily. You can also curve your light banks to wrap your lighting around a scene.

Illumination is great on its own or as a basis to build on, adding combinations of other After Effects lights, to amazing effect.

Download Illumination User Manual