613 native After Effects plugins

Anime VFX that run inside After Effects.

Impact frames, cel smoke, camera-native 3D, riggers and simulations — hundreds of plugins built by one animator, each on its own page with controls and previews. Free, forever.

This site is made of the effects it sells.

The ink above is a live fluid, drawn as cel. The page pops in on twos. The reveals are ink wipes; the clicks are impact frames. Every motion here is a Zink idiom, and every one of them ships as a plugin.

New this week

Infinity Castle, one of 10 downloadable 3D environments
3D MODELS / TEN ENVIRONMENTS

Your next scene starts here.

Browse the renders, then download. The latest anime and manga worlds, with OBJ and textures for your workflow.

Made with Zink Tools

This was cut with these plugins.

My own edit, using the same effects in this catalog. No mockups, no stock, no renders made for a store page.

Wistoria Chapter 60, edited by zinksooo
Wistoria: Chapter 60

Beyond the plugin folder.

custom interfaces, unusual workflows, experiments
FREE · WINDOWS

AE Skinner

Change the After Effects splash, About artwork, interface colours and render sounds. Backs up every byte it touches.

PLUGIN · 3D

Infinity Castle

An endless arrangement of rooms, lit shoji and lanterns, flown through with the comp camera.

PLUGIN · 3D

VDB Volume

Houdini and EmberGen volumes rendered through the comp camera, no pre-rendered sequence.

PLUGIN · SIM

Pyro Solver

A real gas simulation inside After Effects: combustion, buoyancy, pressure, cached per frame.

IN DEVELOPMENT

ZT Collab

Two people in one After Effects project at the same time. No public download yet.

IN DEVELOPMENT

Easel

Draw an easing curve by hand and get the keyframes. Panel, not yet released.

IN DEVELOPMENT

ZMasker

Point at a thing in the artwork and get its mask, as layered transparent parts. Local model.

IN DEVELOPMENT

Flipbook Studio

Game VFX texture packs into looping sprite flipbooks and transparent sequences.

Dev log

what shipped, by day
Free tools

More than plugins.

Some of what an animator needs is not an effect. These are standalone apps out of the same pipeline, given away free and open source.

Free MIT licensed Windows

AE Skinner

Reskin any After Effects install: splash screen, About window, interface colors and render sounds. It reads the artwork sizes and resource layout out of your own binaries, so one build covers AE 2020 through the 2026 betas, and every byte it touches is backed up first.

AE Skinner's Artwork page: an After Effects install picker, a dropped splash image, fitting options, and a live preview of the resulting splash screen.

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