Rendering plugins

Video Copilot

Renders real 3D models inside After Effects on the GPU.

Maxon

Fast production GPU renderer.

Chaos

Photoreal renderer for architecture, advertising and film.

MAXON

A bundle of Maxon's 3D, sculpting, rendering and VFX tools managed as a single ecosystem.

MAXON

One-year named-user Maxon licences for teams, covering Cinema 4D, Redshift, ZBrush and Red Giant.

MAXON

Floating one-year Maxon licences shared across a team, covering Cinema 4D, Redshift, ZBrush and Red Giant.

Frischluft

Depth-of-field and out-of-focus blur effects for After Effects and Premiere Pro, driven by a depth buffer.

RE:Vision Effects

Adds, adjusts or removes motion blur by tracking pixel motion in After Effects, Resolve and Premiere Pro.

Pixel Sorter Studio

Turns footage into a tilt-and-light 3D voxel world that can also be pixel-sorted.

Pixel Sorter Studio

The Pro edition of Voxel Sorter, adding depth of field, motion blur and depth pass output to the 3D voxel look.

irrealix

Imports and renders 3D Gaussian Splatting .ply scans in real time inside DaVinci Resolve.

RE:Vision Effects

Motion blur plugin that tracks every pixel between frames, with fine-tuning and blur removal.

Plugin Everything

A free anti-aliasing effect for After Effects supporting Multi-Frame Rendering and Apple Silicon.

Autokroma

Native exporter adding ProRes, H264, H265 and HAP encoding to After Effects, Premiere Pro and Media Encoder.

CROSSPHERE .Koizumi

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

Markus Bergelt

Map design and animation inside After Effects, with 3D views, styling and AI image generation.

VDODNA.com

Free background renderer for After Effects that renders locally or across a network while you keep working.

Plugin Everything

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

Video Copilot

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

Nik Ska

Multiprocessing background renderer for After Effects with notifications and automatic file conversions.

Autokroma

Exporter that sends renders from the After Effects queue to modern codecs, including HAP, without the command line.

Pixel Sorter Studio

A GPU-rendered glass filter that adds frosted or distorted glass patterns over footage in After Effects and Premiere Pro.

Towards Inner Momentum

Real-time GPU glitch, distortion, colour and generative effects for After Effects, with a live shader editor in Pro.

irrealix

GPU volumetric plugin for After Effects that renders nebulas, galaxies, clouds and smoke with raymarching.

mamoworld

Toggles Cinema 4D layers in After Effects from live 3D rendering to proxy files and back without losing edits.

Cebas

Writes 3ds Max render elements plus anti-aliased object and material masks into layered PSD files for post work.

vimager

AI plugin that restyles video as cartoon, drawing, painting or halftone, or matches the look of a reference image.

Pixel Sorter Studio

A free GPU-accelerated effect that paints brush strokes over footage in After Effects and Premiere Pro.

CROSSPHERE .Koizumi

Generates and deforms 3D cylinders in After Effects, with shading, shadows, reflections and unfolding.

Trioscope Inc

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

Rowbyte

A render-only licence for Data Glitch 2, meant for headless render machines that run the command line renderer.

Mettle

Generates 3D volumetric fractal flames for backgrounds, nebulas and sci-fi effects, including 360/VR output.

Sheffield (FxFactory)

Turns footage into painterly or toon-style artwork via five stages: Paint, Texture, Smooth, Toon and a final pass.

CROSSPHERE .Koizumi

A free After Effects plugin that draws a shaded 3D hyperboloid with unfolding, reflections and depth of field.

Yanobox (FxFactory)

Procedural GPU generator that grows organic 3D forms and surfaces inside After Effects, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.

GothLab

After Effects extension that generates circle-pack shapes and animations with per-element and batch controls.

Plugin Everything

GPU extrusion effect for live text, shapes and masks in After Effects with directional, vanishing and 3D camera modes.

Rowbyte

GPU plugin that generates hundreds of thousands of procedural vector-like waves in 3D space inside After Effects.

grape design

GPU-accelerated After Effects plugin that duplicates a layer and spreads the copies through 3D space.

grape design

GPU-accelerated After Effects plugin that fakes extrusion thickness by duplicating layers, controlled from one null.

Mettle

360, VR and AR stylization effects for After Effects and Premiere Pro, with USDZ and glTF export for AR.

Mettle

Plugin bundle for After Effects and Premiere Pro including FreeForm Pro and GPU-accelerated volumetric fractals from Mettle Flux.

Denis Mozgovoy

GPU-accelerated After Effects plugin for creating and animating 3D curved surfaces with textures and render passes.

Ben Rollason

Free After Effects plugin by Ben Rollason for creating high-quality 3D extrusions, working from CS6 onward.

Andrew Yang

Procedural Voronoi cell-noise texture generator for After Effects with distance metrics, dispersion and looping.

Mettle

Mettle's 3D mesh warp plugin for After Effects, also used with GEOlayers to build terrains from real data.

Pixel Sorter Studio

After Effects effect that turns footage into elevation-map topography for animation or single-frame design.

TOKI Projects

Saves layer visibility sets per comp in After Effects and batch renders every variation, including nested precomps.