New: Animatable Penpal 2 Now Available

Penpal 2 lets you edit paths in ways that After Effects doesn’t. With over 40 path-editing tools, the vector editor is missing from After Effects.  Try a free demo today!

Penpal 2

Pain-Free Path Editing

Penpal brings bezier power and precision into AE so that your workflow is free from excessive planning and difficult round-trips to Illustrator.

After Effects has always lagged far behind Adobe Illustrator when it comes to editing bezier paths. This lack of love for shape layers forces us into extreme preparation, awkward hacks, and flow-breaking workarounds.

We know folks who don’t use Illustrator at all, and design everything from scratch in AE, thanks to Penpal. We’re not saying that Penpal can do everything Illustrator can (though it can do some things Illustrator can’t). But with Penpal in your workspace, you’ll need Illustrator a lot less. Perhaps not at all.

Here are just a few of the capabilities Penpal brings to AE:

• Flip paths horizontally or vertically
• Break a path into two separate paths
• Distribute and align points within a shape
• Snap-selected points to pixels
• Simplify paths with too many points
• Reverse the direction of points along a path
• Mirror points around an axis to create perfectly symmetrical shapes
• Join two separate paths into one
• Quickly make a broken tangent smooth again

MSRP: $45.00

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