Animation preset list



This section provides a list of animation presets included with the full version of After Effects CS4.

Note: Animation presets marked with an asterisk (*) are included in the package of additional animation presets provided by Adobe on the Adobe After Effects Exchange. These additional animation presets use shape layers and the per-character 3D text animation features introduced in After Effects CS3.

For information about using, browsing, and previewing animation presets, see Animation presets overview and resources.

Backgrounds

  • Apparition

  • Blocks

  • Cinders

  • Circuit

  • Cosmic Power

  • Creepy

  • Curtain

  • Deep Tissue

  • Fog Lights

  • Germs

  • Green Crystals

  • Indigestion

  • Infection

  • Lightning Bend

  • Magma

  • Orb

  • Pixels

  • Racing Rectangles

  • Red Speed

  • River

  • Rose Light

  • Silk

  • Smoke Rising

  • Sweeping Curves

Behaviors

  • Autoscroll - horizontal

  • Autoscroll - vertical

  • Drift Over Time

  • Fade In Over Layer Below

  • Fade In+Out - frames

  • Fade In+Out - msec

  • Fade Out Over Layer Below

  • Opacity Flash - layer markers

  • Opacity Flash - random

  • Rotate Over Time

  • Scale Bounce - layer markers

  • Scale Bounce - random

  • Wiggle - gelatin

  • Wiggle - position

  • Wiggle - rotation

  • Wiggle - scale

  • Wiggle - shear

  • Wigglerama

Image - Creative

  • Bloom - brights+darks

  • Bloom - brights

  • Bloom - crystallize

  • Colorize - blue wash

  • Colorize - gold dip

  • Colorize - infrared

  • Colorize - moonshadows

  • Colorize - red hand tint

  • Colorize - royal purple

  • Colorize - sepia

  • Colorize - sky blue

  • Colorize - sky orange

  • Colorize - sunset gradient

  • Contrast - luminance

  • Contrast - saturation

  • Dimension - bevel+shadow

  • Dimension - glow+shadow

  • Grayscale

  • Inset Video - framed

  • Inset Video - torn edges

  • Left Third - scoop mask NTSC

  • Left Third - scoop mask PAL

  • Lower Third - scoop mask NTSC

  • Lower Third - scoop mask PAL

  • Lower Third Holdout - darken

  • Lower Third Holdout - saturate

  • Mood Lighting - amorphous

  • Mood Lighting - digital

  • Mood Lighting - streaks

  • Vignette Lighting

Image - Special Effects

  • Bad TV 1 - warp

  • Bad TV 2 - old

  • Bad TV 3 - weak

  • Cracked Tiles

  • Embossed Multiple Exposure

  • Light Leaks - layer markers

  • Light Leaks - random

  • Motion Registration Errors

  • Night Vision

Image - Utilities

  • Compress-Expand Dynamic Range

  • Crop Edges

  • Flip + Flop

  • Flip

  • Flop

  • Invert Alpha

  • Keying - blue blur

  • Keying - green blur

  • Levels - computer to video

  • Levels - video to computer

  • Reduce DV blockiness

  • Sample Image Expression

Shapes

Backgrounds

  • Box Swarm

  • Kaleidoscopic

  • Nerve Net - Circular

  • Nerve Net - Linear

  • Nerve Net - Penta

Backgrounds 2*

  • Autumn Leaves*

  • Blue Hibiscus*

  • Butterfly Resolve*

  • Fabric of Space*

  • Floral Explosion*

  • Jellyfish Web*

  • Sharps*

Elements

  • 60s Text Bar

  • Chasing Line - Boxes

  • Chasing Line - Dots

  • Marquee Chasers

  • Mod Boxes

  • Ring Chart

  • Wireframe Worm

Elements 2*

  • Box Grid*

  • Crosshatch Focus*

  • Deconstructionist*

  • Deploy*

  • Geo Logo*

  • Graph Paper*

  • Honeycomb*

  • Iris Flare*

  • Kaleidorganic*

  • Kaleidoscopic Seaweed*

  • Light Bulb Sign*

  • Mandathorns*

  • Neon Flower*

  • Protection*

  • Pulsing Snake*

  • Radar Stopwatch*

  • Spiral Magic*

  • Swoop*

  • Tunnel Drain*

  • Woven Celtic*

  • Woven Springs*

Lower Thirds*

  • LT_blue double slant+anim*

  • LT_blue double-still*

  • LT_dashed underscore-still*

  • LT_double bubble-still*

  • LT_fade bar-still*

  • LT_neutral gradient+anim*

  • LT_neutral gradient-still*

  • LT_red skew glow+anim*

  • LT_slant underscore-still*

  • LT_underhook-still*

Sprites - Animated

  • Alien Face - animated

  • Circular - cellular division

  • Dancing Knot

  • Mandala - animated

  • Phase Scope

  • SpiroMandala

  • TwinkleStar

Sprites - Animated 2*

  • Pulsing Circles*

  • Spiralgear*

  • Sunflower - animated*

Sprites - Still

  • Alien Calligraphy

  • Alien Face

  • Box - dashed lines

  • Bullseye

  • Circular - half round

  • Circular - tri dash

  • Crosshair - brackets

  • Crosshair - round

  • Crosshair - square

  • Fan Blades

  • Flower Power

  • Gear

  • Holy Light

  • Indian Sun

  • Mandala

  • RayStar-4

  • RayStar-8

  • Rounded Bracket - beveled

  • Rounded Bracket - double

  • Seaside Daisy

  • Tri Cog

Sprites - Still 2*

  • Spiral*

  • Sunflower - still*

Symbol Families*

  • Braille* (numbers, letters, punctuation, contractions, and fragments)

  • I Ching* (hexagrams and trigrams)

  • Pictograms*

  • Schematic* (antennas, batteries, capacitors, diodes, grounds, inductors, logic symbols, resistors, transformers, transistors, tubes)

Sound Effects

  • Blaster

  • Busy

  • CallAdobe

  • DialTone-US

  • DTMF

  • PhoneCompany

  • RingingPhone-US

Synthetics

  • Blue Bars

  • Cells

  • Digital

  • Ethereal

  • Gold Ambiance

  • Lightning - Horizontal

  • Lightning - Vertical

  • Mosaic

  • Orange Streaks

  • Smoke - Drifting

  • Starburst Spin

Text

3D Text

  • 3D Basic Position Z Cascade

  • 3D Basic Position Z Typeon

  • 3D Basic Rotate X Cascade

  • 3D Basic Rotate Y Cascade

  • 3D Bouncing In Centered

  • 3D Fall Back Scale & Skew

  • 3D Fall Back Scramble & Blur

  • 3D Flip In Rotate X

  • 3D Flip Out Rotate X

  • 3D Flip Up Reflection

  • 3D Flutter In From Left

  • 3D Flutter In Random Order

  • 3D Flutter Out From Right

  • 3D Fly Down & Unfold

  • 3D Fly Down Behind Camera

  • 3D Fly Down Random & Rotate Y

  • 3D Lines Zoom In

  • 3D Rain Down Words & Colors

  • 3D Random Spike Tumble

  • 3D Resolve Position

  • 3D Rotate around Circle

  • 3D Rotate in by Character

  • 3D Rotate out by Word

  • 3D Scramble in Position Z

  • 3D Spiral Down & Unfold

  • 3D Spiral Rotate In by Line

  • 3D Spiral Rotate Out by Line

  • 3D Swing Around on Path

  • 3D Tumble Words Forward

  • 3D Twist & Color Characters

3D Text 2*

  • 3D Blur Flip Up Random*

  • 3D Character Lineup*

  • 3D Falling Like Leaves*

  • 3D Flip Over Heels*

  • 3D Fumble Up*

  • 3D Ghost Landing*

  • 3D Pop Forward Fadeout*

  • 3D Pop Forward Unblur*

  • 3D Take a Bow*

  • 3D Triple Twist XYZ*

  • 3D Tumble X and Turn*

  • 3D Twisty Ribbons*

  • 3D Unsteady Swing*

  • 3D Words Jump in XYZ*

  • 3D Words Wiggles in XYZ*

Animate In

  • Center Spiral

  • Characters Shuffle In

  • Decoder Fade In

  • Drop In By Character

  • Espresso Eye Chart

  • Fade Up And Flip

  • Fade Up Characters

  • Fade Up Lines

  • Fade Up Words

  • Fly In From Bottom

  • Fly In With A Twist

  • Pop Buzz Words

  • Raining Characters In

  • Random Fade Up

  • Random Shuffle In

  • Random Word Shuffle In

  • Slow Fade On

  • Smooth Move In

  • Spin In By Character

  • Spin In By Word

  • Straight In By Character

  • Straight In By Word

  • Straight In Multi-Line

  • Stretch In Each Line

  • Stretch In Each Word

  • Twirl On Each Line

  • Twirl On Each Word

  • Typewriter

  • Wipe In To Center

Animate Out

  • Encoder Fade Out

  • Fade Out By Character

  • Fade Out Slow

  • Raining Characters Out

  • Random Fly Off

  • Random Word Fly Off

  • Slide Off Right By Character

  • Slide Off Right By Word

  • Stretch Out Each Line

  • Stretch Out Each Word

  • Twirl Off Each Line

  • Twirl Off Each Word

Blurs

  • Blur By Word

  • Bullet Train

  • Evaporate

  • Foggy

  • Jiggy

  • Transporter

Curves and Spins

  • Bloom Flower

  • Clockwise Entry

  • Counter Rotate

  • Dust Devil

  • Lasso Tumble

  • Lasso

  • Musical Chairs

  • Newton

  • Pinwheel

  • Radial Flare

  • Retrograde

  • Rotate

  • Somersault

  • Spin Fast

  • Spiral Exit

  • Spiral In

  • Spirograph

  • Swoopy Entry

  • Tea Leaves

  • Tire Rim

  • Whirl In

Expressions

  • Buzz Words

  • Current Time Format

  • Dictionary

  • Frame Number

  • Inch Worm

  • Text Bounce

Fill and Stroke

  • Chasing Strokes

  • Fill Color Wipe

  • Flicker Color - scale

  • Flicker Color

  • Flicker Green

  • Inflammation

  • Pulse Blue

  • Pulse Orange

  • Pulsing Strokes

  • Rotate Hue

  • Sliding Color Flicker

  • Stroke Ease Down

  • Wiggly Stroke Width By Line

  • Wiggly Stroke Width

Graphical

  • Bars Blinky

  • Bars Lime

  • Blue Note

  • Cut Shapes

  • Exchange

  • Green Dots

  • Hazard

  • Red Circles

  • Scratchy Film

  • Snowflakes

  • White Trim

  • Yellow Boxes

Lights and Optical

  • Blue Flash

  • Broadway

  • Bubble Pulse

  • Emerge

  • Exposure

  • Flash

  • Flicker Exposure

  • Fluctuate

  • Fluorescent Light

  • Office Light

  • Overlay

  • Pulse Exposure

  • Shadows

  • Silhouettes

  • Sonar Ping

  • Spin Flash

  • Word Flash

Mechanical

  • Algorithm Loop

  • Algorithm

  • Automation

  • Bad Reception

  • Doppler

  • Electro Magnet

  • Helicopter

  • Insert Text

  • Kinematic

  • Mechanical

  • Pistons

  • Rack & Pinion

  • Roadtrip

  • Scale Bounce

  • Screen Roll

  • Stairstep

  • Submarine

  • Underscore

  • Warp 9.8

Miscellaneous

  • Angle Fly-In

  • Back Flip

  • Blow Away

  • Bounce In

  • Bungee

  • Chaotic

  • Clay Pigeons

  • Dot.Com

  • Elbow Room

  • Explosion

  • Hop, Skip, And A Jump

  • Pendulum

  • Punching Bag

  • Question

  • Rattle

  • Roll Bounce

  • Sequential Jump

  • Six-Shooter

  • Slide Bounce

  • Slip In Out

  • Smokey

  • Squeeze

  • Superhero

  • Swing Up

  • Twisty Ribbons

  • Vanishing Point

  • Wiggly Lines

  • Yo-Yo

Multi-Line

  • Alphabet Soup

  • Contract - Expand

  • Currents

  • Data Packet

  • Data Stream

  • Dealer

  • Encryption

  • Fly In By Characters

  • Fly In By Words

  • Front - Back

  • Frontside - Backside

  • Ideas

  • Incoming

  • Jetstream 2

  • Jetstream

  • Multi-Line Flip

  • Outgoing - Incoming

  • Pneumatic

  • Production

  • Stack Right Left

  • Weekdays

  • Word Processor

  • Zippy

Organic

  • Autumn

  • Boiling

  • Boomerang

  • Bounce Diagonal

  • Chewing Gum

  • Climber

  • Dip-Bounce

  • Double-Helix

  • Drop Bounce

  • Fish Bait

  • Flutter

  • Flying Formation

  • Horsefly

  • Hummingbird

  • Insect Wipe

  • Insects

  • Labrador

  • Leapfrog

  • Loose Line

  • Ocean Tide

  • Quiver

  • Ripple

  • Rubber Floor

  • Rubber

  • Sea-Sick

  • Shuffle

  • Simmer

  • Slice And Dice

  • Sprouts

  • Tag Team

  • Wheatfield

  • Wind Current

  • Wobble

Paths

  • 360 Loop

  • Antelope

  • Ants

  • Back Stage

  • Balance

  • Balloon Man

  • Balloon

  • Bouncing

  • Bubble Pop

  • Bump And Slide On

  • Centipede

  • Circuit Board

  • Conveyor Belt

  • Double Spiral

  • Down And Out

  • Downhill Slide Off

  • Downhill Slide On

  • Frenzy

  • Hurdles

  • Karate Chop

  • Loop On And Off

  • Lyrical

  • Organism

  • Paper Clip

  • Pipes

  • Raquetball

  • Rat Nest

  • Reel To Reel

  • Rope Bridge

  • Serpent

  • Slippery Slope

  • Spiral Long

  • Spiral

  • Springy

  • Squirmy

  • Stairwell

  • Symmetry

  • Tchotchke

  • Walk Of Stars

  • Zig-Zag

Rotation

  • Drip Down

  • Flip Up

  • Full Rotation

  • Loopy Loop

  • Random Rotation

  • Rotate Chars

  • Rotate Per Word

  • Spin In

  • Swirly Rotation

  • Whirlwind

Scale

  • Large Scale

  • Let's Dance

  • Scale Down Word

  • Scale Down

  • Scale Up Word

  • Scale Up

  • Wiggly Scale Wipe

  • Zoom Away

  • Zoom Forward

Tracking

  • Contract

  • Decrease Tracking

  • Extend

  • Increase Tracking

  • Magnify

  • Spasm

  • Stretchy

Transitions

Transitions - Dissolves

  • Block Dissolve - digital

  • Block Dissolve - random

  • Block Dissolve - scanlines

  • Boxes - concentric NTSC

  • Boxes - concentric PAL

  • Boxes - random NTSC

  • Boxes - random PAL

  • Boxes - stroked NTSC

  • Boxes - stroked PAL

  • Dissolve - blobs

  • Dissolve - dither

  • Dissolve - ripple

  • Dissolve - sand

  • Dissolve - unmelt

  • Dissolve - vapor

  • Fade - dip to black

  • Fade - flash to white

  • Fade - overexposed

  • Ovals - concentric NTSC

  • Ovals - concentric PAL

  • Ovals - random NTSC

  • Ovals - random PAL

Transitions - Movement

  • Card Wipe - 2D fractured

  • Card Wipe - 3D pixelstorm

  • Card Wipe - 3D swing

  • Fly to Inset

  • Slide - drop

  • Slide - straight

  • Slide - swoop

  • Slide - variable

  • Stretch & Blur

  • Stretch & Slide

  • Stretch - diagonal bottom

  • Stretch - diagonal top

  • Stretch - horizontal

  • Stretch - vertical

  • Stretch Over - horizontal

  • Stretch Over - vertical

  • Zoom - 2D spin

  • Zoom - 3D tumble

  • Zoom - bubble

  • Zoom - spiral

  • Zoom - wobbling

Transitions - Wipes

  • Band Wipe - build NTSC

  • Band Wipe - build PAL

  • Band Wipe - crossing NTSC

  • Band Wipe - crossing PAL

  • Band Wipe - zigzag NTSC

  • Band Wipe - zigzag PAL

  • Barn Doors

  • Checker Wipe - NTSC

  • Checker Wipe - PAL

  • Clam Shell

  • Clock Wipe

  • Corner Reveal

  • Grid Wipe

  • Iris - cross

  • Iris - diamond

  • Iris - points

  • Iris - round

  • Iris - square

  • Iris - star unfold

  • Iris - star

  • Iris - sunburst unfold

  • Iris - sunburst

  • Linear Wipe

  • Paint On - NTSC

  • Paint On - PAL

  • Radial Wipe - bottom

  • Radial Wipe - top

  • Venetian Blinds

  • Wedge Wipe