Create dazzling motion graphics.

Animate characters and backgrounds, generate visual effects and go from 2D animation to 3D modelling with Maxon Cinema 4D Lite. With Adobe After Effects compositing and animation software, there’s nothing you can’t create.

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Make moving words and images.

Animate titles, logos and backgrounds on Mac or PC with After Effects industry-standard motion graphics software. Customise high-quality motion design templates or create your own to use over and over again in your projects.

Animate logos using compositions.

Create compositions by importing files from Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro or other Adobe apps. You can position, scale and rotate layers to record multiple keyframes and create animation.

Move an object through a scene using keyframes

Bring objects and backgrounds to life.

Move an object through a scene by recording keyframes. Fine-tune animation paths by placing and adjusting anchor points. For background effects, you can generate anything from looping graphic shapes to flowing organic patterns.

Create customised transitions for video in Adobe After Effects

Build customised transitions.

Go beyond wipes and fades. With After Effects, you can make dynamic transitions by animating shapes and colours. Create animated masks that add sparkle to your scene changes.

Use expressions to create motion graphics.

Build and link complex animations without having to use tens — or hundreds — of keyframes. Add flickering and wiggling effects to make your words and objects move.

Make After Effects part of your editing and animation process.

Fine-tune your videos without going back and forth between apps by bringing work from other Adobe apps into After Effects.

Move motion graphics seamlessly from Adobe After Effects to Premiere Pro

Add motion graphics to a video.

Create After Effects motion graphics templates to use in video editing. After you share your templates via Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries, you can customise them in Premiere Pro.

Animate 2D images from Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator in After Effects

Bring 2D characters to life.

Create characters in Photoshop or Illustrator. Then animate them in real time in Character Animator and add them to After Effects to create a composited scene.

Cultivate motion graphics mastery.

Take your motion graphics skills to the next level with these helpful step-by-step guides to animating.

Animate line patterns.

Learn how to grow complex line patterns organically. You can experiment with a sample line pattern composition or use your own multi-line vector illustration from Adobe Illustrator.