Rigging plugins

RxLaboratory

Free toolkit for character rigging and animation.

Artell

Character rigging, animation retargeting and game engine export.

ada scripts

After Effects script that adds swaying motion to layers using Puppet Pins and a control layer.

Animatable

Limb rigging tool for After Effects with a library of limbs, 3-bone support and offline access.

Mike Overbeck

Pose-based rigging system for After Effects driven by joystick and slider controls.

Animatable

A 2D character rigging add-on for After Effects that builds stretchy limbs from shape layers with IK, FK and FreeK.

BAO Plugins

Native IK rigging for After Effects that sets up in three clicks and drives a whole character from one layer.

PENCIL Park

After Effects extension with a command search bar, rigging, text, keyframe, layout and audio tools plus a bring-your-own-key AI assistant.

Alfie Dawes

After Effects plugin for creating, styling and posing animated hands with preset styles and management buttons.

Pixcode

After Effects character creator with 400+ demo characters, interchangeable parts and Duik Bassel and Limber rigs.

Script-Fighter

Dockable After Effects tool for fast asset replacement and marker-based lip-sync in character animation.

AE Screens

After Effects tool that attaches layers to the actual path, shape or text of a parent rather than the whole layer.

mamoworld tools

After Effects plugin that makes a mouth animate automatically from a voice recording.

Motion Design School

After Effects extension for character rigging, assist tools and animation controls, built with animator Deekay.

Mikhail Ivanchuk

Marker-driven lipsync script for After Effects that interpolates viseme keyframes without holds or expressions.

Greg Gunn

Rigging tool for After Effects that sets up one-click inverse kinematics and custom controllers.

Freshmograph

Script that sets how strongly a parent layer influences its child in After Effects, with batch delay and influence.

Ciaran Duffy

Captures animation states across layers as Snaps in After Effects, then recalls or blends between them.

Nik Ska

Lets you animate layer parenting with keyframes in After Effects, including 3D layers.

Joachim Holler

Generates viseme-based mouth animation from English speech and a transcript in After Effects.

Adirai Maji

Automates the Dropdown Menu Control effect in After Effects with universal expressions.

budum

Script that links layers to a character skeleton with automatic parent-child setup in After Effects.

Stoij

Draw parent chains and anchors directly in the comp to rig characters faster in After Effects.

PENCIL Park

Pin animation tool for After Effects built around pin tracking and puppeteering controllers.

Ivan Rascon

Links and unlinks After Effects layers in a click using last-selection parenting.

Pixcode

Gives a single After Effects layer multiple anchor points for position, rotation and scale animation.

GMD Motion

Manages parenting in After Effects through a filterable list, custom nulls and Quick Parents.

mamoworld tools

A toolkit of 100+ expressions for After Effects applied through simple interfaces instead of code.

Volt - Florentin Joannes

Renames layers quickly in After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator with prefixes, suffixes and reusable lists.

Aris Melachroinos

Groups selected After Effects layers under a new null so they can be moved without disturbing their animation.

Rodenburg

Character animation tool for Cinema 4D with drag-and-drop rigged people, a Walk Designer and crowd path controls.

masquerade

MAXScript that builds a full page-turning book rig for any page count in one click, with animatable controls.

RenderRides

Blender camera animation system that records live movement, extracts editable paths and builds adjustable camera rigs.

lbrooks

3ds Max panel for creating point and dummy helpers in bulk, then linking, constraining, baking or converting them to bones.

lbrooks

Companion panel for 3ds Max Biped adding a picker, pose tools, reference display and clip handling beyond the stock interface.

MKlejnowski

Scripted 3ds Max modifier for building button-based picker interfaces of up to 100 buttons without writing MaxScript.

Royal Ghost

MAXScript that picks bones, objects and whole groups like arms, legs or the spine in 3ds Max, by name, on any rig.

aksmfakt132

3ds Max script extending the Skin modifier's WeightTool with bone selection, gradient painting, copy and save or load of weights.

lswsox

3ds Max script for biped animators with hotkey selection, keyframe assist, loop tools, timeline shortcuts and a blocking playback mode.

rauquenrol

MaxScript controller that reports how far an object has traveled, usable in wire parameters and expressions.

Chuggnut

3ds Max script that transfers one bone's skin weights to a different bone inside a Skin modifier.

Chuggnut

3ds Max script that builds a chain along a spline from a single link object, scaling it to fit the path.

Poker

Quick muscle helper for 3ds Max: put a bone, or a cylinder carrying a Flex modifier, across two picked points.

Chuggnut

Small 3ds Max utility that sets skin envelope inner and outer radii to a fixed size instead of tweaking them by hand.

heejun

3ds Max script giving a simple interface to Pinocchio automatic skinning, which needs the Pinocchio binary installed separately.

Christophe B

3ds Max script that deforms repeated meshes through up to 16 parameter spinners without changing vertex count.

mjblosser

3ds Max script that retargets Unreal 4 or 5 Mannequin animation to a Biped, for one file or a whole folder.

craigpmiller

Part MaxScript, part rig for 3ds Max that generates many different types of character walk cycles.