Lighting plugins

Lighting plugins for After Effects, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Cinema 4D, Blender and 3ds Max. 252 plugins in total.

UnMult

iBelieveInSwordfish

A free plugin that strips black from light effects to give them an alpha channel.

FreeAfter Effects
Deep Glow 2

Plugin Everything

Plugin Everything's second-generation glow for After Effects, with tonemapping, lens dirt and image-based glow.

FreeAfter Effects
Normal Scanner

Blace Plugins

Estimates normal maps from video footage for relighting and VFX passes in After Effects and Premiere Pro.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
Fractal Noise 3D

CROSSPHERE .Koizumi

GPU volumetric noise for After Effects that creates real 3D clouds, fog and atmosphere lit by AE lights.

FreeAfter Effects
Depth Scanner

Blace Plugins

AI depth map generator for stills and video in After Effects and Premiere Pro, with depth-driven effects.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
FilmConvert Hazy

FilmConvert

Standalone diffusion plugin that imitates mist filters, adding dreamy glow and softer skin tones.

FreeAfter EffectsDaVinci ResolvePremiere Pro
Fast Camera Lens Blur

TumoiYorozu

Lens blur and glow effect with polygon bokeh shapes for After Effects and Premiere Pro.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
Plugin Everything Shadow Studio 3

Plugin Everything

Raytraced shadow and light effect for After Effects, driven by a layer's alpha, with GI, AO and SSS looks.

FreeAfter Effects
Shadow Studio 3

Plugin Everything

Raytraced shadow and light effect for After Effects with gradients, inner and inverse shadows.

FreeAfter Effects
Normal Mapper

BGRA Entertainment

After Effects plugin that generates normal maps from images, with native Apple Silicon support.

FreeAfter Effects
AEJuice Lightning Storm Clouds

AEJuice

Pack of 68 pre-rendered 4K lightning and storm cloud clips with alpha channel options.

FreeAfter EffectsCinema 4DDaVinci ResolvePremiere Pro
AEJuice Night Sky Aurora

AEJuice

Pre-rendered 4K aurora, twinkling star and shooting star clips with transparent or black backgrounds.

FreeAfter EffectsCinema 4DDaVinci ResolvePremiere Pro
Video Copilot BackLight

Video Copilot

HDRI environment and light map collection for image-based lighting and reflections in After Effects.

FreeAfter Effects
AI Relight

Baskl.ai

Adds adjustable virtual 3D lights to existing footage in post using AI scene understanding.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
LongShadow

BGRA Entertainment

GPU shadow plugin for After Effects with texturing, soft shadow modes and anti-aliasing.

FreeAfter Effects
AEJuice Lens Flares

AEJuice

One hundred practically shot 4K lens flare animations with alpha, delivered as ProRes 422.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
AEJuice Glowy Effect

AEJuice

A glow and light-beam tool for After Effects and Premiere Pro with masking, blur direction and colour controls.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
Creation Effects: Landscaper

Creation Effects

An After Effects template for building animated 3D nature scenes from a 1,000-element library and 30 ready landscapes.

FreeAfter Effects
Raytracing Relight

Trioscope Inc

Real-time 2.5D raytraced relighting for After Effects using depth and normal maps and PBR shading.

FreeAfter Effects
FxFactory Light Show

Noise Industries

A linear wipe mixing glows, light spills, glints and distortion for titles and clips, as filter, transition or title.

FreeAfter EffectsDaVinci ResolvePremiere Pro
Hawaiki Super Glow

Hawaiki (FxFactory)

A glow effect built from six adjustable elements with HDR support and tools for isolating what glows.

FreeAfter EffectsDaVinci ResolvePremiere Pro
Luca Visual FX Light Leaks

Luca Visual FX

A generator plugin with 15 customisable light leaks, plus geometry and stylisation controls, delivered via FxFactory.

FreeAfter EffectsDaVinci ResolvePremiere Pro
Luca Visual FX Spectrum

Luca Visual FX

Two light generators for stylised colour and light backgrounds, overlays and quick cut-point transitions via FxFactory.

FreeAfter EffectsDaVinci ResolvePremiere Pro
NewBlue Stylizers Ultimate

NewBlue

Thirty-five stylising video effects and 400+ presets covering cartoon, lighting, motion blur and artistic looks.

FreeAfter EffectsDaVinci ResolvePremiere Pro
Creation Effects: Space Effects

Creation Effects

A template for building custom 3D space scenes: planets, a solar system, black holes, nebulae, galaxies and star fields.

FreeAfter Effects
Dynamic Shadow 3

Pixcode

Creates controllable floor shadows, light reflections and sunlight effects for selected layers in After Effects.

FreeAfter Effects
LightsOn

Manuel does Motion

Adds animatable lens flares and lights to After Effects scenes using built-in elements, with no separate plug-in.

FreeAfter EffectsBlender
AI Relight Pro

Baskl.ai

Adds adjustable fake 3D lights to footage in post inside After Effects and Premiere Pro.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
LightSweepPro

InovativeWorks

Physics-based bevel and light sweep plugin for After Effects that works on a single layer without precomposing.

FreeAfter Effects
CloudLight

grape design

After Effects plugin that generates clouds from lights, with shape, shading, billow and blend settings.

FreeAfter Effects
idustrial revolution Volumetrix

Idustrial revolution (FxFactory)

Light effects and transitions with 60+ presets of rays, glows, glints and distortions for After Effects and Premiere Pro.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
Luca Visual FX Light Kit

Luca Visual FX

Light, color and transition plugin set with flicker, pulse, gradients, vignettes, regional light and wipes.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
LongShadow 2

BGRA Entertainment

Full-featured long shadow plugin for After Effects with texturing, soft shadows and directional mode.

FreeAfter Effects
Power Sphere

CROSSPHERE .Koizumi

3D sphere plugin for After Effects with elliptic distortion, unfolding, shading, reflections and depth of field.

FreeAfter Effects
Super Shine

aeHamid

Adds customizable light sweep and shine effects to layers in After Effects with marker timing and mirror mode.

FreeAfter Effects
Light Volume

grape design

GPU-accelerated plugin that renders After Effects composition lights as 3D volumetric beams.

FreeAfter Effects
Light Patterns

aeHamid

Library of controllable light movement patterns in After Effects, all contained in one layer.

FreeAfter Effects
Colume

grape design

GPU-accelerated plugin that turns After Effects lights into gradients in 3D space with turbulence.

FreeAfter Effects
Chaos V-Ray Solo

Chaos

V-Ray renderer for individual Cinema 4D artists, with CPU/GPU rendering and a bundled 3D asset library.

FreeCinema 4D