Free Stuff for After Effects (More On The Way!)

The most downloaded item on the site, Creation Lens Flares is a free template featuring 50 unique lens flares for Adobe After Effects. No need for expensive plugins – now you can create, customize, and animate a variety of lens flares, and composite them with your footage or motion designs.

This free sky effect lets you easily create beautiful sunsets, cloud time lapses, stormy skies, starry night scenes, and other custom skies for your scenes and animations in After Effects.

This free template lets you bend, curve, or curl any layer in three dimensions, in Adobe After Effects.

Add custom heat haze to your scenes in After Effects with this free preset. Imitate a variety of heat shimmer looks with this realistic and very flexible effect!

This free After Effects preset adds a 3D extrusion to any 3D layer. Add the preset to your text to make it look 3D as you move your camera around, and customize the extrusion with easy controls. Install the preset, and access it any time in your Effects & Presets panel. For a huge variety of text styles and FX, check out the Creation Title Effects template.

A free, loopable 12-second stock footage clip of a digital glitch texture. For many more glitchy textures and custom glitch effects, check out the Creation Glitch Effects template.

10 seconds of free, flickering light leaks, generated in After Effects with the Light Leaks template. Composite them on your footage with a Screen blending mode to add style and energy to your video.

Sparkles is a totally free preset for adding custom sparkles and twinkles to your footage and motion designs in Adobe After Effects.

This free After Effects presets lets you add 3D motion trails behind your moving layers. Leave a 3D trail of paused frames behind your footage layer, or add twisting, drifting, and fading trails of 3D shapes behind your moving shape layers!

This free After Effects preset is a big improvement on the standard Glow effect that's built into AE. Use it to create bigger, brighter glows that are intense at the edge, and have a more gradual falloff.

GridScape is a free After Effects preset that lets you quickly arrange a large number of layers into a 2D or 3D grid formation. 

This free AE preset lets you easily add custom rainbows to your footage or motion graphics. Customize the look of the rainbow with easy controls.

A free, loopable film dust texture that you can composite over your footage to imitate an old film look. Duplicate, invert it, and change the blending mode to add light dust specks as well as dark. For dozens more film textures and custom old-film looks for your footage, check out the Creation Film Effects template.

This free, custom 3D beach scene from the Landscaper template has 3D water, a sky rig, palm trees blowing in the wind, and a camera projection setup for a 3D ground.

This collection of eleven, customizable 3D shapes will work in the Classic 3D renderer to enhance your motion designs.

This free AE preset will let you quickly add floating 3D dust particles to your footage or animations. It's also great for making floating pollen, bokeh, or underwater particles. Compatible with your 3D camera, and easy to customize!

This free AE preset will let you add atmospheric haze or fog to your 3D scenes in After Effects. Use it in landscapes, or any scene with many 3D layers, and it will add a sense of realism and depth. Or, use it in underwater scenes to imitate low water visibility. Customize the haze with easy controls.

This 15-second clip of VHS static & hum can be looped and overlaid over your footage to give it a retro VHS tape or analog TV look. For the complete package of VHS effects, check out the popular Creation VHS Effects template for After Effects.

This free, two-minute clip features dozens of short lens flare animations, made with the Creation Lens Flares template (also free). Great for making transition effects, or use them in your motion designs.