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AiBow Ink

Fluid simulation in After Effects. Ink, smoke and liquid motion grow out of your text, logos and footage. GPU-accelerated, deterministic, with transition modes built in.

Note: Windows Only

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Description

Fluid simulation inside After Effects

AiBow Ink runs a 2D fluid simulation on the GPU to make ink, smoke and liquid motion grow out of any layer - text, logos, shapes or footage. It is not a pre-rendered stock clip: the fluid is simulated (Stable Fluids with vorticity confinement, CUDA-accelerated with a CPU fallback), so the flow follows the actual shape of your layer. Change the text and the ink changes with it.

Features

  • Three emitter modes - Layer Alpha (ink emerges from the layer's shape), Direction (rising smoke, falling drips) and Bloom (radial bursts)
    • Full fluid physics - vorticity, viscosity, dissipation, gravity/buoyancy, multi-octave turbulence and wind, on a 128/256/512 simulation grid
      • Color and style - gradient ramps, colors sampled from the source layer, or custom 6-color palettes; RGB or perceptual (OkLab) interpolation; contour bands; a draggable Appearance Curve editor; glow, bloom, rim light, edge darkening (paper bleed) and a texture layer input
        • Transitions built in - Reveal and Erase matte modes hand one shot over to another, driven by a keyframeable Transition Progress that lands on an exact frame and can run backwards
          • 12 starter presets - Sumi-e Bleed, Neon Glow, Rising Smoke, Ink in Water, Liquid Flame, Falling Drip, Ink Reveal and more
            • Deterministic - the same frame always renders the same image. Scrub-safe, Multi-Frame Rendering supported
              • Runs everywhere - Auto / GPU (CUDA) / CPU processing. Projects authored on an RTX machine still render on a laptop with no discrete GPU

                How it works

                1. Apply Effect > AiBow Tools > AiBow Ink to a text or logo layer.

                2. Pick a preset.

                3. Press play - the ink grows out of the layer's shape.

                4. For a transition, set Composite Mode to Reveal and keyframe Transition Progress.

                Watch the tutorial

                Windows only (Windows 10/11, 64-bit). NVIDIA GPU recommended (RTX 20 series or later); runs on the CPU without one. 8/16 bpc.

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                Version History

                1.1 -

                Oct 6, 2026

                New: 6. Flow & Timing group - Boundaries (Closed Box / Open Edges, so continuous emitters no longer flood the frame), Emission Breakup, Emit Duration and Emit Repeat Every.
                Improved: five presets retuned (Rising Smoke now uses Open Edges with Breakup).
                Fixed: Viscosity is now consistent across Grid Resolutions (at 512 it damped the flow far too strongly).
                Fixed: Turbulence Scale is now consistent across Grid Resolutions.
                Fixed: occasional single-frame stutter in renders (a frame silently computed on the CPU in a GPU render). GPU work is retried instead, and any CPU fallback is reported in the effect's About dialog.
                Fixed: an undo warning when editing Bloom Color with the color picker.
                Note: projects saved with 1.0 that use Grid Resolution 512 or a non-default Turbulence Scale can look slightly different, because of the two consistency fixes above.

                1.0 -

                Sep 11, 2026

                Initial release.

                Compatibility

                After Effects

                2026, 2025, 2024, 2023

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