Ballpoint

Precise strokes of a ballpoint pen radically change the way you look at familiar things. This GPU plugin for AE and Premiere turns your videos into sketches on an old piece of paper

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Description
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Ballpoint Texture Engine

Ballpoint is a GPU-accelerated plugin for After Effects and Premiere that transforms your footage into dense, expressive linework — like it was hand-sketched on aged notebook paper. Inspired by the raw charm of ballpoint pen doodles and technical drawings, Ballpoint redraws your frames using reactive strokes that reveal motion, detail, and texture in a completely new light. Choose from distinct styles like Robocop, Curls, or Web, each with a unique feel ranging from frantic and mechanical to loose and organic.

GPU Accelerated

Ballpoint is fully interactive. As you tweak parameters, the results update in real-time — letting you sketch out your look live without waiting for renders. From bold outlines to chaotic scribbles, every element is keyframable, and many settings are brush-sensitive, so you can modulate complexity, flow, and texture directly in the timeline. Whether you’re aiming for a punk zine, a forensic diagram, or a daydream in ink, Ballpoint gives you the pen — and lets you take full control.

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Great for Reveal Animations

Presets Included!

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Tutorial

Requirements

✅ After Effects

✅ Windows

✅ Mac Intel & Silicon, with MacOs 12.0+

❌ Computers with no OpenCL/OpenGL support

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Version History

1.2.0 -

- Fix crashing on windows

1.1.0 -

- Fix licensing issues
- Fix 16/32bits crashing

1.0.0 -

Initial release

Compatibility

After Effects

2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020

Media Encoder

2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020

Premiere Pro

2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020