Plugins & extensions for After Effects and Illustrator
After Effects
Browse visual thumbnails and apply gradients to Colorama, Shape Layers, Layer Styles and the third-party plugins proGradient and Color Shift. Select from 600+ curated built-in gradients, or import from GRD (Photoshop), CSS & SVG files to access thousands more.
The Studio section, new in version 1.5, lets you mix, edit and create new gradient presets.
Save your own gradients too, and organise them into categories and subcategories with auto-generated thumbnails.
After Effects
Fractal Noise and Turbulent Noise are incredibly versatile effects, but their interfaces don't make that obvious. Fractal Noise Browser transforms this experience with 250+ presets in nine curated categories, featuring visual thumbnails and animated previews. Explore organic backgrounds, atmospheric simulations, grunge textures, glitch effects, and much more - all without guesswork.
Plus there's a User Presets section for you to save, browse and apply your own Fractal Noise and Turbulent Noise presets, with the same controls and flexibility as the built-in presets.
After Effects
PathPrep streamlines your shape layer workflow:
Illustrator
Designed for both experimentation and precision, Twiggen allows you to generate customizable fractal binary trees with ease. Control the structure, shape, and visual style of generative trees, from sparse, spindly branches to dense, symmetrical canopies. Explore a wide variety of branching patterns and visual styles, whether you're creating organic illustrations or data-like visual patterns.
Adjust angles, lengths, randomness, iteration depth, and more. Optionally add natural waviness. Built-in safeguards prevent runaway complexity and performance issues. Generated trees are editable Illustrator path items with strokes only.
From comments on Instagram, YouTube and Reddit
"This is probably the best plugin on earth, any pro user will agree with me that this is an effects treasure box. So many choices and effects you can generate with fractal noise effects and you made it 100 times easier, already purchased thanks."
"What an absolute goldmine to use as a springboard for exploring the weird world of animated noise... Permutation heaven in noise form."
"I love the interface! Beautifully presented and organised."
"I love whoever made this."
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