Top Easing Tools for After Effects in 2023

[@mohammadsabri5611]

I used (Duik - motion4 - Motion Tools 2 - flow - after ease - keystone - kease - ease & wizz - animation composer wings - easy copy) ... and now i stick with Motion Tools. Coz it does the job simply and other tools i really nead. my issue with motion 4 that is its full of tools i donot use often times. other thing i'd rather scripts than plugins due to the lightness and not consuming resourses that much as plugins do. After that Motion 4 is still super great plugin.

[@indy4s]

Curves is gonna change my life.

[@pluginplay]

Much love!

[@avocadopeanut]

It's going to change your wallet too 💀

[@stephanez]

Where to find it

[@rlfqi]

Curves is on another level and honestly i would buy it immediately if it wasnt for the subscription.

[@rlfqi]

im beggin you🥺@pluginplay

[@yakoubgr]

I like Kease, it offers some great presets and functions and compact ui. One I use alot is the overshoot preset that even works in shapes and masks keyframes. Thanks jake.

[@RainSoxx]

Yea it's a shame Kease isn't on the list because it's my go to. The fact that you can create your own presets, including one with anticipation & overshoot keyframes baked in is invaluable. I don't think I've seen any of the others do that, they always resort to expressions, which then become messy if you have more complex animations.

[@JakeInMotion]

Wow, I've never seen Kease before, it looks great! The ability to save presets with more than 2 keyframes really is a killer feature. I haven't tried it myself yet, but I think it would easily make this list. The one thing it's missing is the ability to interactively adjust the easing curves. It's a shame the author isn't able to earn any money off of it currently, though.

[@eladbari]

Real estate is expensive, therefore only scripts with a small UI get on my list. And yea, Kease is splendid. Only thing to fix is the overshoot presets- you can't "browse" them like the normal curves. If you click and you don't like the results- you gotta Ctrl+Z. You can't just click a different preset cause it won't change the animation...

[@DavideBoscolo]

Oh, thank you guys! ❤ @eladbari Good idea! I'll keep that in mind!

[@eladbari]

@@DavideBoscolo Good to see you here, buddy! Yea, all the 3-keyframe animations demand ctrl+Z to try another. Let us know via email or something when you fix this, please!

[@sinansinanoglu3242]

Kease is incredibly practical. He's indispensable. I recommend

[@nachoprb]

Curves looks fantastic, but I really hate that it's just under subscription, would love to see it as a standalone plugin!

[@eladbari]

as Klaus says:.. 'You'll own nothing and we'll be happy'

[@pluginplay]

Thanks for the feedback! We have many new products hitting the platform in the next months and we hope that we can provide enough value for you to consider trying us out!

[@pfuispinne]

@@pluginplay Personaly I would buy curves immediately but I wouldn't even consider a subscription.

[@gkilm]

Theres a couple of similar non-subscription plugins: After Ease (for bounce and elastic controls), and Kease (for seeing a visual preview of a motion, and having presets like Flow). Curves looks great, but with these two affordable ones, you have a lot of these abilities that you actually own without needing to subscribe to anything.

[@TheMLightning]

@@pluginplay would have been a very nice tool in our production facility but being subscription-based has pushed us towards another toolset.

[@JosuéZárateCollar]

do you have a review of kease? aejuice also has some interesting basic presets of easing, and a copy and paste option, love your channel man, greetings from latin-american, paraguay...

[@Shwemy99]

Jake, you made my animation day you are the be teacher I have ever seen in animation and maybe in all my whole life you are amazing 🤩 thank you for this priceless content ❤

[@davefleury2583]

It would be nice if AE would fix their own product. The graph hasn't been touched in decades.

[@markzaikov456]

Some of these keyframe solutions should be built in

[@ambcreatives]

Because of this video, I bought Motion 4 and used your discount code. Currently, I'm working for a global company where motion videos are becoming more in demand and I need tools to improve my workflow as project deadlines get tighter and tighter. 😵‍💫💫 Thank you for sharing this, Jake!! 💖

[@gregkrazanski]

KVC is my go to, i truly like it more than anything else

[@rado3714]

AEJuice has an easing copy thing too called (ahem...) "Copy Ease" that also has some easing presets and a keyframe cloning feature. It's free.

[@JesperFrydenlund]

Great video. Thanks. My faves (besides Motion) are Kease and Keystone.

[@MayMotion83]

Curves and flow look fantastic, cool, and easy to use and saves times I like both tools I wish I have them thanks for the referee God bless u

[@pluginplay]

Thanks for the support!

[@Nyatsuru]

Ahh yes... Ease Copy. My one forever love :D

[@fotabrollop]

Great video, thanks! I think You mentioned a Motion 4 tutorial,? Where can I find that, please?

[@Sdachneak]

I really like your script, thank you so much!

[@benjilet]

I like the "Papa" at 6:38

[@LanceTheunissen]

SOOOO much value in this video ❤‍🔥Thanks a mill Jake. I've been looking for tool a little more robust than easecopy to speed up my workflow! Really appreciate the thorough and clear analysis of these tools! #aftereffectsdaddy

[@jippalippa]

Considering I was thinking of updating to Datamosh 2, the plug n play subscription could work for me.

[@pluginplay]

Thanks so much for the support! We have been scaling up our dev team and have MANY more tools coming to the platform in the coming months

[@RADIOMETRIC_]

have you ever tried to „abuse“ the FLOW EXPRESSION function in an ease() expression? 😉 try it out and look at the applied expression of flow and then you will know what it is good for and how much power lies in it!

[@robmillington]

Curves looks really useful, your demo sold me on it and I would have purchased it but the subscription pricing is ridiculous. 13 - 15 USD per month for it, Datamosh 2 (a pretty niche plugin) and a couple of other janky looking effects is terrible. Oh and they also force you to register an account to be able to check out their plans.

[@heinyboi]

Yeah.... Looking at that, I'll just wait until an equivalent is available in AEScripts

[@aaront8609]

Thanks for listing the price. If a site has to hide their price behind a paywall, they know it's overpriced. I was also interested in curves but needing a subscription blows.

[@eladbari]

@@aaront8609 Everyone's trying to get on the Subscription model bandwagon. I think only specific products naturally sound like it's somewhat reasonable to pay that, but some don't. If value was the main issue here, though, then I'd have to pay a subscription fee to "True Comp Duplicator" since I use it 99.99% of the times im in AE. If everyone switched to subscription model- just imagine the monthly cost of just keeping an AE machine running. Goddamn...

[@pluginplay]

Hey there, thanks for the feedback! We are doing our best to add many more tools and assets to the platform in the coming months in order to constantly increase the value. We have been scaling up our dev team and we will be launching new products, features and assets and monthly. Just fixed the pricing issue as well! Much apologies, that was not our intentions! - Danny

[@heinyboi]

@@pluginplay Hi. It's really nice to see a response from you guys on this, I believe though the problem is twofold and lead to the same point. 1, as kind of mentioned, there's the value of the subscription, as well as the opaqueness of it, seeing as we need to sign up to see plans. 2, subscription models, although they might earn in the long run, it won't keep any favor or good will. This isn't a diss in any way, I love the promises Curve has, however, even Mr Horse is adopting subscriptions now, and it was my previous go-to resource kit, it's now uninstalled from my pc due to that. I may have spent hundreds of dollars on plugins that help my workflow (Motion, Overlord, Anubis, Relativity, Skew, and some more), and I'm not exaggerating when I say Curves looks like a goldmine of a plugin, and I personally would love to pay even triple digits for a license to use it. Now that Curves has a spotlight, there will be developers that might make their own equivalent and have it listed as a $40 plugin, when that time comes, the value for a subscription has to show for customers to sign up. Upkeep of a CC subscription is already taxing for lots of users and the only subscriptions they would accept is cloud storage for project deliveries, not graphing tools they otherwise can bypass with other one-time payment plugins and the graph tool. All this is just my personal take, don't take it too heavy, I just needed to get this out in a manner that I felt was articulate enough. Wish you all the best of days and best of luck. -H

[@DanNoakes]

Ease Copy is the best plugin for AE.

[@GR-ly1cu]

Hi, I learned some good lessons about After Effects from you. Why I don't feel like working with After Effects for a while. say something

[@DebgopalBera-s4u]

Sir, make a comple tutorial on iExpression 3.

[@mrk3676]

Thankl you for this

[@nomoreaboutthis]

Thanks for the video Jake! I'm surprised DUIK Angela has easing controls, I would have never found it by myself.

[@SpaceGhostNZ]

Great subject great video!

[@lauramcgann4995]

Hi Jake, thanks so much for the video! I was wondering if you would consider evaluation loupe deck, if you know anything about it. Thanks for all your awesome vids!!

[@nathitappan]

Have you ever used Motion Tools Pro? Is there a reason you would recommend not to install/use it?

[@Adam-jk2ur]

On my way to buy Curves and then see the subscription pricing. There is no way I will spend $156 a year for one plugin, even if my work is paying for it. The price will of course increase for every year, so you will pay almost $470-500 for one plugin in 3 years. That's crazy!

[@jirehla-ab1671]

Which of these extensions are the cheapest (without discount)?

[@cenkozmercan]

Get motion 4 people. Just do yourself a favor and get motion 4. Best value ever.

[@borktheorc]

I don't want to sound bitter, but what's the likelihood that PlugInPlay will remove their current offerings from aescripts and lock them all behind their subscription? I want to buy Datamosh and after seeing this video Curves, but I can't justify a monthly subscription to use Curves when Motion and Skew basically do the same stuff with (maybe?) a few more clicks. And I'm hesitant to give them money for Datamosh if there's a chance they'll pull support without a subscription. It's a bummer. :(

[@eladbari]

yup. deal breaker

[@pluginplay]

Hey there, we have no plans of removing our current offerings from Aescripts. In the event that we do change the distribution exclusively to our platform (not likely), we will ALWAYS support our existing customers through updates and ticket help. Our users helped us get to where we are today and there is no chance that we would forget about them. Lot's of new tools coming to our platform that will consistently increase the value users get. I totally respect the worries and I hope that we can change your mind in the future

[@JoseLuisRodriguez-vd8uj]

when I think in subscription I think in Netflix. once you start with one you'll end up paying for 20 different subscriptions because everyone has something you like

[@terenceleechris2174]

Hi, which edition of After Effects you are using on the Keyframe lessons since your keyframe panel has many elements to select.

[@jacquesbroquard]

That subscription price point for PlugInPlay seems really high. Bundling doesn't allow for a la carte purchasing. It's not a gret strategy and is the number one reason I'm staying way fromit. Flow does this job for me.

[@vincentbrisard6016]

DuIK might been at far right of your graph. It comes with far more usefull expression you didn't mentionned, with also bounces, turning wheels depending on the movment, controllers, camera in 2D space (parallaxe)… Still complicated and expert level when you jump in, but even more features and greater UI since DuIK 3 Angela, for free (donationware) 🙏

[@JakeInMotion]

You're right, I probably should've given it more credit. I think I was trying to keep it relative to the easing features it offers, which isn't really fair since I didn't do that with Curves. Duik Angela is unbelievably valuable for being donationware.

[@vincentbrisard6016]

@@JakeInMotion Thank you for consider answering. Indeed as the title of your video, let's just focus on easing. Keep up your great videos !

[@maheshnagaraj9262]

Hey Jake, awesome video! Quick question for you. Is it possible to tweak the position property handles in the value graph without having to split them into x and y dimensions? I've been looking into it and seems like After Effects doesn't support this feature out of the box. If anyone knows of a plugin that can help achieve this, I'd greatly appreciate the insight. Keep up the great work! 🚀

[@OliseForel]

Me: I am going to buy Curves right after this video Plugin Play: Subscription model only Also Me: No thanks! I just wanted Curves for a fair one-time fee

[@HBrooks]

to see your videos normally, i have to play them at half speed. not very tutorial when you fly through it at warp 15

[@reisiramv]

it's almost like this isn't meant to be a tutorial, just a showcase of different tools that are available.

[@kushalsv]

Who subscribes for AE plugins?! absurd..

[@JakeInMotion]

I hear you, but many people pay for a Red Giant subscription just for their plugins, or Greyscalegorilla+ for their plugins, assets and educational material. I'm not saying I like it, but people are paying for it so I don't see it going away. I think the real question is whether or not the value you're getting for the subscription is worth it. Red Giant makes some tools that people cannot live without, or that do things that make their lives easy enough to justify the cost. As a C4D artist, the amount of tools and assets you have access to with a GSG+ subscription make the cost a no brainier, in my opinion. The real question you have to answer is whether or not a Plugin Play subscription is going to be valuable enough to you as a motion designer to make that subscription cost worth it.

[@Curt.dammit]

Is Gen Z even easing?