Motion Tweaks

A collection of essential After Effects motion tools created by Motion Designers, for Motion Designers. The tools we actually use at Motion Design School every day.

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Description

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Transform your After Effects workflow with battle tested tools that save hours of tedious work. What began as personal solutions for daily challenges has transformed into a professional toolkit that will change how you create motion design. It's a collection of small tools that try to make daily work a bit easier.

primitives

3D Tools That Make Sense

Control paths in 3D and create quick 3D/Faux 3D primitives. Simple tools that just work.

styling

Quick Layer Styling

Add instant depth with pseudo-3D effects, and enhance visuals with one click. Professional-looking results without the tedious setup.

animation

Animation Helpers

Quick wiggles, path trimming, and shape animations that don't break. Built by animators who actually animate stuff.

shapes

Shape Tools

Fix shape directions, manage strokes across layers, and add some wave to your paths. The stuff you need when working with shapes.

scripts

Time Savers

Small but mighty tools that save you time on boring tasks. Because life's too short for repetitive clicking.

workflow

Workflow Enhancers

Tools that make After Effects work the way you expect it to. Because sometimes the little things make the biggest difference.

How does it work?

It's pretty straightforward - install the scripts, and they'll show up in your After Effects window. Each tool does one thing and does it well. Select what you want to work with, run the script, and get back to the creative stuff. No complicated setups, no fancy panels - just tools that work.

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Version History

1.1.1 -

Oct 6, 2025

- Polished and optimized scripts with additional safety checks
- Create Cube: Fixed index error by correcting position value assignment for the Z-axis
- Shape Waves: Fixed calculations
- Fixed capability for 2021-2023 versions

1.1.0 -

May 6, 2025

⭐️ New Rotate First Vertex script (Details in docs)
Script to quickly change the starting vertex of a shape layer's path and masks

UI fixes and improvements:
- Better flexible grid
- Improved categories UI
- Fixed empty gap between icons and text
- Use AE background color
- Dark/White theme, depending on AE background
- Add tooltips to the icons in compact category view
Wiggle script fixes:
- Added new value for Z axis wiggle. For Position, Anchor Point and Scale
- Fixed "null is not an object" error when applying wiggle effects to multiple selected effect properties
- Added property validation to prevent errors with properties that don't support expressions
Sine script fixes:
- Fixed Y-axis application holding Ctrl
- Now the script always uses XY variant expressions and toggles the Axis XY controller between three options based on which keys are held
Trim Paths scripts fixes:
- Fixed "null is not an object" error when selecting non-shape properties or effects
- Improved error handling to skip invalid properties
Create Cube: For the stroke cube version, the script ensures active Classic renderer engine
Create Cylinder: For the Alt version fixed error ‘Can not “set value” with this property’

1.0.1 -

Mar 6, 2025

- New Change BG script (info in docs)
- New Unique Label script (info in docs)
- Dependener: Improved key parsing. The 5 base rig keys can now be stretched across the timeline. The main requirement is that the keys must be at equal distances from each other.
- A presets folder was added for manual updates.
- Temporarily disabled icon changes due to unexpected Adobe After Effects bugs
- Cleaned up project files and reduced total size
- Better error handling
- Extra safe JSON processing
- Fixed AE version limitation

1.0.0 -

Mar 2, 2025

Initial release

Compatibility

After Effects

2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021