Simulation plugins

INSYDIUM

Particle and simulation system for Cinema 4D: fluids, smoke, fire and cloth.

Tyson Ibele

Particle and simulation system for 3ds Max with a free base version.

Salt Media

Moves 3D objects, cameras and vertex data between Blender and After Effects in both directions.

One Chance

A lightweight particle generator for After Effects with multi-core rendering and Multi-Frame Rendering support.

Video Copilot

After Effects plugin that creates heat haze, shimmer noise and distortion over footage.

AEJuice

Over 200 pre-rendered 4K destruction clips: explosions, meteors, shockwaves and debris.

Towards Inner Momentum

Liquid distortion effect for After Effects with iridescent colour, lighting and six presets.

YCraft

GPU 2D fluid simulation for After Effects that turns logos, text and layers into live smoke or liquid emitters.

AEJuice

Pack of over 410 4K destruction assets: nuclear blasts, shockwaves, meteors and debris in ProRes 4444.

irrealix

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

MotionDesk

Simulates soft, wobbly objects with collisions in After Effects using shape layers, text or pre-comps.

MotionCodes

Shatters images and objects in After Effects with controls for pieces, gravity, force and explosion, no extra plugins.

Motion Boutique

A native 2D physics plugin that turns After Effects layers into interactive rigid bodies.

Salt Media

Sends Blender objects, cameras, lights and simulation vertices to After Effects and keeps layers synchronised.

Rowbyte

Creates temporally coherent stippled versions of footage in After Effects using a physics simulation.

grape design

GPU particle plugin for After Effects that makes particles flow along vector fields generated from masks.

MotionDesk

Real-time 2D physics simulator inside the After Effects viewport that bakes results into native keyframes.

grape design

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

grape design

After Effects effect that simulates watercolor ink bleeding and blending with up to eight colors.

MotionCodes

Keyframe-free After Effects plugin that creates loopable blood-drip effects on text or objects.

AEJuice

Turns a still photo into a billowing sand-blown particle effect in After Effects with no extra plugins.

Zaebects

After Effects plugin that turns images into moving networks of lines from particles steered by pixel brightness.

Zaebects

Native After Effects plugin that simulates organic, slime-mold-style growth and reacts to comp layers.

grape design

GPU-accelerated 2D water-like fluid simulation for After Effects with inlets, gravity and mask walls.

Motion Boutique

Bundle of seven Motion Boutique After Effects tools including Newton 4, Connect Layers PRO and Pastiche 2.

Orrin Zucker

Physics-driven effect that gives any After Effects layer a plastic, rubber or goop response to motion.

Plugin Play

Generates procedural liquid trails and blobs on layers in After Effects with speed and gravity controls.

Eric @ VFX Tools

Real-time GPU smoke and fire simulation in the After Effects timeline with no pre-render.

grape design

GPU-accelerated particle system for After Effects driven by pixel data from source layers.

Casey Baker

Applies free-form liquid deformation to shapes, solids, text and masks in After Effects.

INSYDIUM

Annual subscription covering INSYDIUM's full Cinema 4D plugin range for particles, terrain, plants, modeling and rendering.

INSYDIUM

Perpetual-license bundle of INSYDIUM's Cinema 4D plugins for particles, fluids, scattering, terrain and rendering.

Pixel Lab

Twenty-five ready-made 3D crown splash animations as Alembic files, with regular and slow-motion versions.

Sitni Sati

Voxel-based fluid dynamics plugin for simulating and rendering fire, smoke and explosions in Cinema 4D.

Craft Animations

Lets you drive vehicles and aircraft through 3ds Max scenes with adjustable suspension and a set of camera effects.

rauquenrol

Brush-based 3ds Max plugin that scatters assets into a scene using rigid body simulation for natural placement.

Martin Breidt

Early-stage 3ds Max macroscript that automatically breaks a mesh into volumetric pieces with adjustable crack width.

Marius Silaghi

Non-destructive 3ds Max modifier for modeling and animating cloth with instant results and no simulation wait.

mufeng

Blender add-on that grows realistic snowflakes from a physically-based model, with presets, randomizing and growth animation.

DavidAviles

3ds Max script that turns simulated FumeFX grids into aligned, renamed VrayVolumeGrids loading the same caches.

Chuggnut

Experimental script-based particle system for 3ds Max with several particle types, gravity and wind resistance.

cmjohncheng

3ds Max script that sets up wind on GrowFX trees in one click, with varied stiffness and amplitude and batch processing.

Ryan Guy & Dennis Fassbaender

Advanced liquid simulation with foam, spray and bubbles.

VjaceslavT

Blender cloth creation and simulation add-on with adaptive wrinkles, pinning, sewing and cloth presets.

Community

Blender add-on that breaks a mesh into fractured pieces from the Object > Quick Effects menu.

Sergey Kritskiy

Blender add-on for creating hanging cables from geometry, edges or curves and simulating them with physics.

Xane Studios

Blender tool for generating and styling character clothing, from base cloth shapes to simulation-ready garments.

BeFX Studios

Blender add-on from BeFX Studios for rigid body simulation and destruction effects.