Gui Esp is giving away 50 free gradients for Stardust After Effects. Get them while hot!

Wow! 100k Instagram Followers! Thank You! To celebrate we are giving away a $100 gift card every day which perfectly coincides with our Cyber Week Sale. We could not have planned it more perfectly! Read more for details.

Fantastic animated explainer created with Joysticks 'n Sliders, Prism, Labels, EaseCopy, KBar, Quick Menu, Wayfinder and more by YellowLab

Adobe today released After Effects 2020 which is focused on improving performance.

We are happy to be sponsoring the Maxon 3D Design + Motion Tour. Use code AES3DMT and save 25%. 26 cities around the world with tons of speakers, special guests and software for you to take home.

Stardust version 1.5.0 will be available soon is now available. It is another Free update to all current customers.

We are doing it again this year! Join School of Motion, Greyscale Gorilla, Video Copilot, Maxon, Red Giant, Motion Hatch, Action VFX, aescripts + aeplugins and more at the NAB MoGraph Meet-up!

Adobe released an important new version of After Effects today which they are now calling 16.1 but it can be considered CC 2019.1 if you are going by the old naming convention. Joey from School of Motion does a great job breaking down the new features and showcasing the amazing new Content Aware Fill for Video which will surely blow your mind. He also includes the project file and a free script in his review.

We are happy to again sponsor @motionmarkus's Animation SmashDown with some excellent prizes!

VinhSon Nguyen reviews Deep Glow and compares it against other After Effects glow plugins.

We are happy to be sponsoring @motionmarkus's Animation SmashDown with some excellent prizes!

aescripts + aeplugins was again a proud sponsor of Node Fest in Melbourne Australia

We are happy to be sponsoring the Keyframes Conference in Orlando, Feb 25-27, 2019.  They have an amazing lineup of speakers including our own author Mathias Möhl (mamoworld). We are also giving away a VIP pass for the conference, check our Instagram feed for details.

aescripts + aeplugins is proud to once again sponsor the Mouvo Design Conference in Prague.

Prague and motion design. A connection that is becoming ever closer, primarily thanks to the Mouvo festival, which will be held by Prague’s award-winning Oficina studio for the fourth time in February.

Today Adobe released the latest version of After Effects which is officially version 16 but everyone will call it CC 2019. Learn what's new and improved.

Check out what is coming in the next release of After Effects coming this fall.

The Plugin Everything crew has a live show and as their second guest, they invited aescripts + aeplugins founder Lloyd Alvarez. Make sure to tune in Friday August 24 at 3PM GMT which is 11am in NY and 8am in LA so set those alarm clocks now!

Check out the recorded interview after the fold.

On Plugin Everything's "Show Me Everything" we are taking our friends, fans and users through Bezier Node and its soon to be release. We also take a look at our latest After Effects Plugin in development Key Mix which has seen us take Nukes Keying node and move it into After Effects. We also take a sneak peek into whats on the horizon for AI. 

The Plugin Everything crew is doing did a live show and as their first guest, they have had the super talented Fraser Davidson of Cub Studio. Make sure to tune in June 22 at noon GMT which is 8am in NY so set those alarm clocks now! Check out the interview after the click.

The open source ProEXR plugin been updated to bring Cryptomatte to After Effects. Cryptomatte is an open source technology created by Psyop that allows for automatic ID matte generation from 3D scenes which dramatically reduces the number of mattes needed for 3D compositing.