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After Effects Templates

Save time and effort in After Effects

Browse our collection of After effects templates designed by motion designers for motion designers. All our After Effects templates are designed to give you a helping hand in your motion design projects. Once you've bought a template, just download it and open it up in After Effects exactly as you would a normal project file, and away you go!

These templates are also packaged up in a couple of our After Effects bundles, buying the templates together can help save you 25% compared with buying each individually.

Templates in After Effects are a great way to save time and money in your projects. Each of the templates below has been designed with a specific purpose in mind, if you want to add a sci-fi interface to your project for example then check out the Galactic sci-fi template which contains a variety of ready made futuristic screens you can use in your projects. Alternatively, if you're just looking to animate a logo then check out the logo animation template: all you have to do is open up the project, import your logo and the template does all the work for you to create an animated logo in moments.

Chronos: The Sci-Fi HUD & UI Pack for After Effects

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Building HUD elements manually and recreating the same interface elements from zero on every sci-fi project

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Galactic - Futuristic UI template for After Effects

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Building futuristic UI elements from scratch when clients want "Minority Report" on a stock budget

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Chronos:Expansion A Sci-fi template for After Effects

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Manually creating dozens of HUD elements and graphs when deadlines are tight and it should take minutes

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Logo animation template for After Effects

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Having to provide the client with an impressive technical logo animation even though their budget is limited.

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Fragment Glitch After Effects Template and presets

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Creating glitch effects for 20+ titles manually and keeping the style consistent across everything

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Glitch logo animation template for After Effects

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Having to come up with a unique logo animation when the client just doesn't have the budget

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Frequently Asked Questions:

How do you use an After Effects Template?

How you actually use an After Effects template will depend entirely on how it's been created, what it's for, and who created it. For example, take our logo animation template - when you open up this template there's a composition marked "PLACE YOUR LOGO HERE", which is as you may have guessed where you need to put your logo. Once this has been done, your logo will be animated by the template, and the main composition can be rendered out.

The logo template is structured differently to our Chronos sci fi template though. The sci-fi template is designed more as a selection of compositions that can be used to create your own designs, perhaps more like a toolkit than a template. It still saves you time because you can make use of all the pre-designed and animated elements, however you need to combine them to produce something unique. Although even then, there are full-screen compositons that have been designed within the template which can be rendered out without much work.

Do you have any free After Effects Templates?

At the moment we don't have any free After Effects templates, but there may be some on the horizon so keep checking back regularly to see if we've launched any.

What is an After Effects Template?

After Effects Templates are pretty much exactly the same as After Effects project files, the only real difference is that when you open up a template file it will create a new untitled document for you. So rather than editing the template directly, you're editing a copy of the template.

What this means is that when you come to save your work, you can simply save it as an After Effects project, rather than overwriting the template file which you'll want to use over and over again.

After Effects templates are a great time saving tool for any motion designer, if a project needs to be done quickly then a template can really help save time and effort.

For further reading, we've written a blog post on why it's OK to use After Effects templates.

How to buy After Effects Templates?

The process is very simple, just choose a template from the selection above, click through to the product page and click the "Buy on Gumroad" button. This will take you to the gumroad page where you can then click "Buy this" and continue with the checkout process.

Take a look at these painkillers: After Effects Scripts

SpeakEasy - Captions for After Effects

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Creating 50+ timed text layers by hand because After Effects has ZERO native caption support

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PeaceKeeper for After Effects

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Opening After Effects project files and wanting to burn them to the ground because they're so chaotic

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The Renderly 2 Script

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Having to manually adjust the workarea bar and enter your render settings each and every time you render a comp

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The Numero Script

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Spending 20 minutes building a sliding number counter by hand when all you need is a simple number animation

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The Codeword Script

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Spending 30+ minutes of your precious time manually animating cryptex style animations

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The Focal Script

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Manually creating gradient ramps for blur maps, switching between comps just to adjust focus, and generally becoming annoyed with camera lens blurs in Ae.

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The Waterfall Script

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Boring single-color Echo trails with zero creative control over individual copies

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The Telegram Script

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The absolute tedium of splitting paragraph text into lines by hand, repositioning each line manually, and then creating perfectly sized mattes for each manually. Seriously, just automate it.

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The Highlight Script

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Manually creating shape layers for every single word because After Effects has zero native underline support

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The OK Zoomer Script

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Following the exact same time-consuming steps every time you need to create a split second zoom effect

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The Spoke Script

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Having to duplicate layers one by one and calculate complex rotation maths just to rotate layers round a circle in AE

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The Triangular Script

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The ridiculousness of having to use the polygon tool and a bunch of manual steps just to create triangles in After Effects

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The Orbit Script

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Writing orbit expressions from scratch with trial-and-error radius values for every single layer

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The Fragment Script

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Spending hours tweaking complicated noise patterns and displacement maps

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The Memphis Script

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Spending hours making dozens of random geometric shapes with perfect spacing and rotation

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The Highline Script

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Boring generic drop shadows with zero style options making everyone's work look identical

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The Renderly Script

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The complex and time-intensive way of rendering out multiple sections of the same comp via the render queue settings

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The Helix Script

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Building 3D DNA helixes from scratch

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The DialUp Script

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Spending hours building sci-fi HUD dials with shape layers for 5-second background elements

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The Conductor Script

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Creating nulls and parenting layers one-by-one when you just want to slide a group of things off screen

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The Angle Script

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Creating camera rigs manually and trying to remember isometric rotation values for every project

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The Laundrette Script

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Pasting text that imports with random fonts and sizes that completely destroy your layout

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The Jiggle Script

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Trying to remember the expression to wiggle along a single axis.

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The Selector Script

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Scrolling through 200-layer timelines clicking one at a time because there's no "select all above" button

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The Wordsmith Script

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Opening Chrome, Googling "lorem ipsum", copy, switch to AE, paste - breaking flow for dummy text

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The Sociable Script

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Googling "Instagram story dimensions" for the 500th time this year

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Have you checked out our After Effects Presets?

Save time in motion with our selection After Effects Presets! Ideal for adding that little extra something to your motion design projects.

All After Effects Presets

Skylights Pro - 30 Instagram-style filters for After Effects

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Flat lifeless footage needing Instagram-quality color grading when you don't have the skills or time

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Staple - 30 After Effects text animation presets

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Building the same text animations from scratch every project with no organized library to reuse

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Terminal - retro computer screen preset for After Effects

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Having to create a retro screen look by hand because the client has been playing too much fallout.

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Fragment - 30 Glitch Preset After Effects Pack

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Building glitch effects that don't look cheap when most presets scream "free pack"

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