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Squash & Stretch

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Quick Overview


Bring your animations to life instantly with Squash & Stretch – featuring a curated collection of ready-to-use, professionally crafted behaviors. With intelligent controls that adapt to your design, creating vibrant animations has never been easier.


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Squash & Stretch is a free animation tool designed to save you time and effort by offering a library of ready-to-use behaviors. Each animation has been professionally crafted and is powered by an intelligent system that adapts seamlessly to your projects. With Squash & Stretch, your animations gain instant vitality—no need to build them from scratch. For even more variety and customization, a Pro version is available with additional behaviors, sound effects, and enhanced features.

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Key Features

Handcrafted Animations - Each behavior in Squash & Stretch is meticulously created by animation professionals. We believe that true creativity can’t be automated, and every animation here reflects that personal touch.

Intelligent Adjustments - Squash & Stretch adjusts to each individual layer, ensuring that animations look flawless in any context. Already have animations applied to a layer? Squash & Stretch will adjust those to make sure both the start and end of a behavior fit seamlessly into the context.

Extensive Behavior Library - Enjoy a selection of animations that you can easily browse in the built-in gallery. Upgrade to the Pro version for an even larger library, including exclusive behavior bundles that can be added separately.

Integrated Sound Effects - Enhance your animations with included sound effects. Each behavior comes with sound options, which are automatically added to your composition when applied. You can also use these sounds independently, just like any standard stock sound collection.

Intuitive Controls: Looking for quick adjustments like “jump higher” or “add more stretch”? Squash & Stretch’s straightforward parameters make it easy to customize behaviors without complex setup. Just tweak the settings to get the movement and energy you need.

Control the speed and energy with the Oomph parameter
Control the amount of deformation with the Squash & Stretch parameter

No Expressions Needed - Squash & Stretch creates clean, simple keyframes—no complicated expressions involved. This makes personalizing animations straightforward and accessible, so you can easily fine-tune each motion to suit your creative vision.

1 Minute Tutorial

Examples

Demo 1 Demo 2 Demo 3
Demo 4 Demo 5 Demo 6

Version Comparison

Free Pro
Content
Behaviors 10 61
Sound Effects 91 350
Extendible with extra bundles  
Features
Manual Controls (Squash & Stretch, Oomph, Flip, Rotate)
Automatic adjustment of behaviors to layers
Automatic adjustment of surrounding animations
Transitions
Gallery
Toolbar
Text Exploder  
Precompose & Crop
Stagger Layers
Create Parent Null
Pricing
Price $0 $99

Browse Included Behaviors - Free Version

Browse Included Behaviors - Pro Version

Case Study: Creating the Promo Video for the Cartoon Bundle

The entire promo video for the Squash & Stretch Pro Cartoon Bundle was animated using the bundle’s own tools (with the exception of camera moves and the animated line). This approach enabled us to complete the entire project—from initial concept to final result—in just one day!

Watch the videos below to see how Squash & Stretch can streamline real-world projects and help you meet tight deadlines effortlessly.

Extra Bundles

The Pro version of Squash & Stretch can be extended with the following extra bundles:

Cartoon Bundle

Cartoon Bundle

$19.99

This bundle extends Squash & Stretch Pro with 37 behaviors and 242 sounds to give your animations an organic and fun cartoon style.

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Broadcast Bundle

Broadcast Bundle

$39.99

This bundle includes 130 behaviors and more than 200 sound effects for Squash & Stretch Pro, all with a subtle, elegant style.

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Glitch Bundle

Glitch Bundle

$0

This bundle includes 18 behaviors with 69 variations and 53 sound effects to add some chaos to your project.

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Tutorials

Testimonials

Thanks a lot to the beta testers we interviewed in this video:

Michael Szalapski, https://www.behance.net/TheGreatSzalam
Jay Roader, https://vimeo.com/jayroader
Cratin Sheffield, https://sheffieldcreative.com/
Ben Pohl, http://www.bad-pixel.com/
Christopher Günther, https://www.zdf-digital.com
Basem Deeb, https://www.behance.net/basemdesign

Reviews

Beginning and intermediate AE users can harness this tool to instantly create dynamic animations on projects with a tight deadline. Experts can use it for rapid prototyping & brainstorming.
No Film School read review
Overall, Squash and Stretch is a very useful tool for adding that extra “oomph” to your animations quickly, while still retaining creative freedom and control. No more messing around with inorganic, inflexible expressions to achieve robotic easing and squashing.
CreativeDojo read review
mamoworld’s tagline is “Simplify your CGI” and with their new tool, they have done just that.
Lesterbanks.com read review
It’s fast and easy to modify animations, once you understand the toolset.
Rich Young, ProVideo Coalition read review

Squash & Stretch Tutorials

Customer Showcase

animation created by Basem Deeb with Squash & Stretch
For me as a motion graphic designer Squash & Stretch will be my right hand in each project. Basem Deeb, Motion Graphics Designer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
animation created by Bad Pixels with Squash & Stretch
After I played with it for a while I think it is a game changer for text animation. Ben Pohl, Bad Pixels
animation created by Jay Roader with Squash & Stretch
It is really giving me a nice organic animation style that I am looking for most of the time. Jay Roader, Motion Design at Gameloft Montreal
animation created by Christopher Günther with Squash & Stretch
We have to work really fast - animations have to be done in one day, so without something like Squash & Stretch peppered into an animation you couldn’t do this kind of work in the amount of time that is available. This makes it extremely valuable for me. Christopher Günther, Social Media Designer at ZDF Digital

Testimonials

Thanks a lot to the beta testers we interviewed in this video:

Michael Szalapski, https://www.behance.net/TheGreatSzalam
Jay Roader, https://vimeo.com/jayroader
Cratin Sheffield, https://sheffieldcreative.com/
Ben Pohl, http://www.bad-pixel.com/
Christopher Günther, https://www.zdf-digital.com
Basem Deeb, https://www.behance.net/basemdesign

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