Sticky-Web

Parent and anchor your layers right in the comp! Draw the parent chain, move anchors, and rig characters faster than ever.

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  $19.99
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Description

Rig your characters directly in the composition!

Sticky-Web is a quick and fun tool to make parenting and re-anchoring painless.

It is built to help prepare characters for rigging or animating, without the need to parent in the timeline or anchor one layer at a time.

Comparison between the Trial version and Full version
Example of webs, loops, anchoring and colourising with Sticky-Web Example of webs, loops, anchoring and colourising with Sticky-Web Example of webs, loops, anchoring and colourising with Sticky-Web

Any limitations?

Sticky-Web will ignore 3D layers, Adjustment Layers, and Locked Layers.
If you adjust the anchors on layers with their Position or Anchor Points animated, Sticky-Web will skip them.

Try it out now!

The Free Trial has no time limit! It contains all of the ‘Free Trial Features’ listed above.
Once you get comfortable and you want to get more out of Sticky-Web, get your hands on the Full Version!

Discussions

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Version History

1.3.2 -

Jul 10, 2026

Major Bug Fixes for AE 2026:
- Sticky-Web crashed upon use in AE 2026 (due to odd, framework bug). Issue has been resolved.

1.3.1 -

Nov 25, 2022

Added quality-of-life fixes:

- 'Unstack Anchors' will first Recenter Anchor Points, then if still necessary, spread anchors in a circle.

- Separated Dimensions (X and Y position) now supported when it comes to adjusting anchors.

1.3 -

Nov 15, 2022

Added new features and minor touch-ups:

- New: 'IK Rigs' - End a web with 3 mask points to create an IK. Works on 3 bones and 2 bones.

- New: 'Auto-Web' - Automatically load up webs based on your own custom list.

- Anchor Mask Points slightly darker than Anchor Circles, for easier viewing and selecting

- Web and Anchor layers are fixed in place, to avoid accidental moving and scaling

- Bulk-parenting no longer overrides new/existing parenting structures.

1.2 -

May 29, 2022

Added quality-of-life features and minor touch-ups:

- New: 'Undo Sticky-Web' button in the 'Settings' menu. With this, you can cancel Sticky-Web instantly.

- New: 'Ignore 0x0 and Full-Screen' option. It skips full-screen layers (like backgrounds) and empty layers (like empty layers from Illustrator)

- Layer names now show up in the 'Info' panel when you adjust the anchor points.

- X-Ray no longer modifies the Opacity property; it works by adding a 'Transform' effect.

- Colour Layers refined, so that black and white shades are also coloured.

- Load Parents option forces Sticky-Web to run on all layers instead of just selected layers.

- More descriptive error messages added.

1.1 -

May 1, 2022

Support added for German, French, Italian and Portuguese languages.

Not tested on Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Russian languages, but likely to work.

1.0 -

Apr 27, 2022

Initial release

Compatibility

After Effects

2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020

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