Crazy Shapes

With Crazy Shapes, you can expand the possibilities of Path work in After Effects. Make rigs, add cool animations in a few clicks, and use extra tools to make your work easy and fun.

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Description

CrazyShapes

We prepared a set of tools to process Path. They help to make squash and stretch, wavy animation, secondary actions, and more. Rig tools help to connect prepared illustrations, which cannot be achieved with other classic tools.

The scripts use two types of animation. Looped animations work without any keys and are created directly inside the path. So with a few sliders, you can change full animation. Half-automated animations add secondary actions to your prepared illustrations.

These features will speed up your workflow and extend possibilities.

To the basic tools, there are some supporting tools:

  • Reset position, rotation, and scale inside the shape layer, including the path space coordinates.
  • Link Nulls with Path points in 5 ways.
  • Convert all parametric shapes to the path or all expressions to keyframes with one button.
  • Disable the visibility of unnecessary inner groups of shapes.

path_rig

Custom rigs

Don't limit your illustrations. Expressions will adjust to your tasks.

waves

Add extra details

Our tools add animation to illustration that is hardly achieved with standard tools. Without any effects and extra layers.

decay

Secondary Actions

Add more details faster, just in one click, depending on the prepared main motion.

stretch

Path Stretch

Stretch your path like never before. You can use any shape illustration and control the stretch style with additional controllers.

export

Export

All animations in our scripts work on expressions, so you can easily convert them to keys and use them as web or app animations.

support

Support Tools

The extension also includes rich tools to support work with path, like reset path, link path to nulls, visualize points, cleaning expressions, and more.

How does it work?

We prepared two options. Take a look at the video tutorial and get familiar with the possibilities and features it can provide. Also, we provide widely described docs in Notion. All information is organized and illustrated with videos and gifs. Get Fun!
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Version History

1.1.7 -

Nov 20, 2024

- Updated license

1.1.6 -

Aug 16, 2024

- Fix Slider Rig with 3D layers

- Fix Slider Rig work with Time Remap property

1.1.5 -

Jan 16, 2024

- Update license



Speed Rig:

- Fix speed rig name parsing



Points to Shapes:

- New Duplicate and Reparent function



Reset Shapes:

- Fix cases with ungrouped shapes



Link Points to Nulls:

- Improve linking mechanics

- Updated path search and converting mechanics

- Alternative Mid-Area mechanics

- Parent nulls to common null in the pointsToNulls



Convert to Path:

- Add star converting

- Fix path converting without shape groups

1.1.3 -

Jan 19, 2023

Path Keys: reveal the path properties with keyframes

Slider Path: incorrect Null moving direction

Convert To Path:

- improve Convert to Path mechanics

- this functionality is added to the Nulls & Points Linking functions and is applied automatically

Slider Rig:

- remove unused Layer Scale and Layer Rotation properties

- fix slider pseudo effect instead of Len Rig effect

Code optimization and small improvements

1.1.2 -

Dec 5, 2022

- Script launching mechanics have been improved. Fixed a bug while clicking on buttons for some users

- Fixed a bug that appeared after launching scripts with an inactive timeline panel



Bake Expressions: fix bake for Path Delay timing

Path Stretch: fix tangents rotation

Slider Path: Change the position of the null object clockwise



Len Rig and Slider Rig



- The AE 23 version now has colored keyframes

- Added example of rigs if no one layer is selected



Path Delay



- New simple version of the Path Delay for better performance. It will be added by pressing Shift + Click

- updated delay mechanics and improved points tangents animation

- new checkbox to disable expression animation

- remove Tangents Delay and Tangents Multiply parameters

- fix Scale delay



Small bug fixes and improvements

1.1.1 -

Nov 15, 2022

- Fixed the appearance of tooltips



Path Delay



- Path Rotation fix

- Path delay and Elastic animations work better with motion on parent layers

- Disabled elastic animation by default



Len Rig / Slider Rig



- In some cases script adds an unnecessary key to the slider rig

- Fixed and improved state morphing



Waves on Path



- Added possibility to change each path controls when the value randomizer is disabled

- Disabled random waves speed frequency and amplitude values



Reset Shape



- Unparent layer before resetting layer



Clean Expressions



- Disable expressions before deleting them in smart mode

- Remove all round corners that were added by Crazy Shapes



Rig keys / Path Keys



- add keys to the selected path on the viewport



Bug fixes and improvements

1.1.0 -

Oct 13, 2022

- More buttons tooltips

- Icons update

- Bug fixes and improvements



Wave on Path

- New multi path offsets in the one layer

- New tangents animation

- New simple wave on path

- New basic path with waves if no one layer is selected

- Scan and convert parametric shapes



Len Rig

- Compact len rig controllers style

- New auto flip states

- Bezier curve fix

- Range stop angle fix



Path Delay

- Build-in elastic



Slider Path

- New points switch



Nulls to Path

- Link with masks



Clean expressions

- Clean Crazy Shapes effects

1.0.2 -

Sep 27, 2022

- improved alert message with errors information

- bug fixes

1.0.1 -

Sep 20, 2022

- fix: extension panel not opening in the Windows

- fix: Slider and Length Rig functions not working with puppets

- fix: in the Path Bend and Path Delay expressions stop work after enabling the 3D layer

- improve: better expression switching in the On/Off function

- several minor bug fixes and improvements

1.0.0 -

Sep 19, 2022

Initial release

Compatibility

After Effects

2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020