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After Effects
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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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.
Custom rigs
Don't limit your illustrations. Expressions will adjust to your tasks.
Add extra details
Our tools add animation to illustration that is hardly achieved with standard tools. Without any effects and extra layers.
Secondary Actions
Add more details faster, just in one click, depending on the prepared main motion.
Path Stretch
Stretch your path like never before. You can use any shape illustration and control the stretch style with additional controllers.
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 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?
Discussions
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Version History
1.1.8 -
Dec 17, 2025
1.1.7 -
Nov 20, 2024
1.1.6 -
Aug 16, 2024
- Fix Slider Rig work with Time Remap property
1.1.5 -
Jan 16, 2024
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
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
- 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
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
- 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
- bug fixes
1.0.1 -
Sep 20, 2022
- 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
Compatibility
After Effects
2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
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