Top 5 for $99 or Less – After Effects Plug-ins

August 17, 2023

Did you know that Toolfarm carries tons of great products for $99 or less? Get the job done right, without hurting your budget. Here are the top 5 best-selling/most popular After Effects compatible plug-ins for under $100. Ok, so it’s actually 8, as I added a few runner ups. Didn’t think you would mind.

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Battle Axe Overlord

Vector workflow salvation

Overlord lets you transfer Illustrator elements directly into After Effects without importing files. Text and gradients supported for the first time ever.

An invisible connection system; a mystical portal between Illustrator and After Effects.
Transfer shapes as you need them without importing, converting or redrawing. The vector workflow you imagined between apps created by the same company.
Work with shapes, not files.

Compatibility: After Effects and Illustrator CC2014+

MSRP: $55.00 Toolfarm Price: $52.25

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Plugin Everything Deep Glow

It generates a beautiful, physically accurate glow. You’ll never want to touch After Effect’s default glow again.

Deep Glow gives you the best looking glow right out of the box, even whilst working in a non-linear color space. It features intuitive compositing controls to assist in refining your glow results. Deep Glow is also GPU accelerated for speed and features handy downsampling and quality controls which can also be leveraged to achieve unique results (grainy or stylized glows).

Compatibility: After Effects 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6

MSRP: $49.95

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Mt. Mograph Motion

Your Animation Wingman

The most helpful Extension for motion designers using Adobe After Effects. Power through projects with a tour de force of tools and controls for professional animators.

Massively flexible and customizable — put your projects in motion with your animation wingman!

Compatibility: After Effects CC 2021, 2022, 2023

MSRP: $99.00

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RenderTom Flow

Flow brings an easy interface to After Effects for customizing animation curves, without needing to venture into the aging, confusing graph editor. Gone are the days of slow, heavy expressions, or fighting with speed and influence (what do those even mean?) – just make a curve, hit APPLY and you’re gold!

Flow comes with 25 pre-defined, commonly-used motion curves based on Robert Penner’s Easing Functions. But don’t limit yourself – build your own library and share it with the world, or import custom presets from other animators with the single click of a button

Compatibility: After Effects: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020

MSRP: $35.00

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Video Copilot Twitch

A Plug-in for Creating Chaos

Video Copilot Twitch is a plug-in for Adobe After Effects that lets you create stylistic video effects by synchronizing random operators including a blur operator, color operator, light operator, scale operator, slide operator, and a time operator. With these 6 built-in operators you can give your video projects edgy effects that let you “control the chaos!”

Compatibility: After Effects AE 7, CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.5, CS6, or CC, including 2022

MSRP: $45.00 Toolfarm Price: $42.75

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Runner Ups

Vimager ScaleUp

ScaleUp lets you enlarge footage up to 10 times for better quality with A.I. technology.

ScaleUp utilizes AI technology to enhance and scale footage up to 10 times with minimal quality loss. ScaleUp plugin is GPU accelerated for Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro.

ScaleUp is an advanced video-enhancing tool, it can enlarge videos by up to 10x with minimal image quality loss.

With AI-powered technology, ScaleUp can upscale your footage and enhance the video quality. It can increase the image resolution while preserving the details.

Compatibility:

After Effects 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018
Premiere 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018

MSRP: $59.99

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Irrealix LoopFlow

Bring your still photos to life with loopFlow.

loopFlow is an After Effects plugin that allows animating still images into looped videos, otherwise known as Cinemagraphs or Plotagraphs.

loopFlow is an After Effects plugin that allows animating still images into looped videos. Using two masks you can determine the flow area and direction. Use it to animate continuous fluid motion like flowing water, billowing smoke, flying particles and fire. You can also animate hair, fur, fabrics or patterns, your imagination is the limit. Animation is based on sliding an area of the image along a mesh generated between the two masks. You can easily loop the animation.

Compatibility: After Effects 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014

MSRP: $49.00

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Extrabite.io GifGun

One-click animated GIFs in After Effects.

GifGun is the easy way to make animated gifs in After Effects, with just one click.

With easy 1-click workflow, Alpha channel support, Batch Render and GIF compression, GifGun is the go-to tool for making GIFs for Adobe After Effects.

Experience the future of GIF making with the all-new GifGun 2.

Keeping true to the original 1-click workflow with compression, batch render and tons of settings, GifGun 2 adds lots of new features.

Compatibility: After Effects 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020

MSRP: $39.99

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