HardCorrupt

Block Corruption & Glitch Effect for After Effects

HardCorrupt is a block-based glitch and corruption engine that divides your footage into blocks and destroys them — displacing pixels, swapping regions, tearing channels apart, and letting you control exactly how much of the frame falls apart. Built for motion designers who want glitch that looks messy--

Currently only for Windows.

macOS version coming soon

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Description

# HardCorrupt#

Block Corruption & Glitch Effect for After Effects

HardCorrupt is a block based glitch and corruption engine for After Effects. It divides your footage into blocks and destroys them — displacing pixels, swapping regions, tearing channels apart, and letting you control exactly how much of the frame falls apart.

Built for motion designers who want glitch that looks messy---

## WHAT IT DOES

Apply it to any layer. The effect panel is organised into six sections. Start with Corruption, dial in the feel, then push further with RGB Split, Noise, and Temporal Freeze. Everything is keyframeable. Set Seed Mode to Auto and every frame animates without a single keyframe.

## SECTIONS

  • Corruption: The core engine. Block Size, Corrupt Amount, Displacement X/Y, Block Jitter. Choose block shapes — Square, H-Strips, V-Columns, or Mixed. Pixelate corrupted blocks, feather their edges, or pixelate the entire frame globally. Fill patterns let you control what gets drawn inside each corrupted block: Solid, Cross, Diamond, Checkerboard, Dot, Outline, or Scatter.
    • Luma Gating: Restrict corruption to pixels above or below a brightness threshold. Feather the edge for gradual falloff. Invert to target shadows instead of highlights. Works as a gate for the entire corruption pass.
      • RGB Split: Offset red, green, and blue channels independently — each with its own X and Y. Only affects corrupted blocks, so your clean image stays untouched.
        • Noise: Luminance noise and per-channel chromatic noise. Enable independently. Red, green, and blue each get different random values for a more aggressive, colourful result.
          • Temporal Freeze: Simulates codec macroblock freezing. Blocks with stable luma signatures lock to a fixed corruption pattern — a held, frozen glitch that persists across frames. Freeze static areas for a classic look, or freeze moving areas for something
            stranger.
            • Seed & Master: Manual seed for reproducible results, or Auto mode for per-frame animation with no keyframes. Master Opacity blends the full effect back against the original.
              • Output Mode: lets you switch between Normal, Show Mask (white/black matte of corrupted areas), and Corrupt Only (corrupted pixels on transparent background — compositing-ready).

                ## KEY FEATURES

                • Output Mode: Show Mask produces a perfect track matte of corrupted areas
                  • Auto seed: all active sections animate per-frame with one click
                    • Per-feature enable toggles — isolate or disable sections without touching sliders
                      • Block fill patterns for a controlled, graphic glitch aesthetic

                        ## SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS-

                        Adobe After Effects CC 2022 or newer - Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit - macOS not currently supported

                        ## INSTALLATION

                        The easiest way to install and license HardCorrupt is using the **aescripts + aeplugins manager app**. To install a trial, select Add Trial from the Account menu in the manager. For manual installation, copy `HardCorrupt.aex` to your After Effects plug-ins folder and restart After Effects. Full instructions are included in the PDF guide.

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                        Version History

                        1.0.0 -

                        Jul 15, 2026

                        — Initial Release

                        Block corruption engine with shape, jitter, and fill pattern controls
                        Luma gating with feather and invert
                        RGB channel split (per-channel X/Y offset)
                        Luminance and chromatic noise
                        Temporal freeze for held macroblock simulation
                        Auto seed mode for keyframe-free animation
                        Output modes: Normal, Show Mask, Corrupt Only

                        Compatibility

                        After Effects

                        2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022

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