Animation is a fun and engaging way to bring life to your video. You don't necessarily need specialist skills to create animation, there are plenty of professional, pre-made templates to help. In this article, we cover After Effects templates available from Envato Elements where everything is available for a monthly subscription.
7 Top Animation Preset Packs for Adobe After Effects
Featured After Effects Animation Toolkit
Motion Particles - Photo Toolkit
Add animation quickly and easily with this After Effects motion preset.
Key Features
Just brush over your photo and select an area for particles to appear, adjust the settings, and render! You can control the angle, speed, density and much more.
- Application: After Effects CS5+
- Plugins: None required
- Author: Secondfalseiteration
Alternative Animation Presets for After Effects
If our featured template isn't quite right for you, try one of our alternative After Effects templates instead, they're all available from Envato Elements, so they're included in a monthly subscription.
3. Motion Styles Toolkit
A bumper kit of animations for text, there are 54 templates to choose from!
Why not Try...
Here are some more great resources from Envato Elements that you can try with your video animation.
Sound Effects: Animation Game Jump Echoes
There are lots of great Sound FX on Envato Elements, including plenty related to animation. So if you've created a fun character and would like to add a little life to them, why not give one a try.
Presentation Templates: Animation Powerpoint Presentation Templates
If you need to make a template, say for a funding pitch, why not try a bright and fun PowerPoint template featuring 800 slides, 1,000 icons and 10 scheme colours to choose from. They're fully animated and easy to edit — the free font is included too!
Motion Graphics: Animation Of Drawn Graphics
A selection of cute, hand-drawn, animated graphics. The download includes a mobile phone, shopping trolley, alarm clock, graphs, arrows and much more.
4. 70 Glitch Title Animation Presets Pack
70 pre-made text animations that work with any font. You can choose from six different glitch types or edit them with your own animation to create something new — there's a video tutorial included to help.
5. Story Maker Explainer Toolkit
An explainer toolkit for After Effects to help you create simple animations without needing too much AE knowledge. Just mix and match the objects and characters with various backgrounds and render! If you prefer a little more control, you can animated the rigged character yourself.
6. Action Library - Motion Presets Package
A pack of animations for After Effects that you can get started with in just a few clicks. Mix and match presets in this huge library of animations for After Effects. Manage timings without keyframes, live-preview animations quickly, and add effects like fade, glitch, distortion and more.
7. 2D Animation Kit
Animate a cute 2D character with this After Effects animation kit. As well as stepping, turning, speaking and more, the kit also includes a phone, tablet, megaphone, and blank slides for your text.
More Resources for Animation in After Effects and Beyond
How to Animate in After Effects
8 Top Anime-style Templates to Make Animated Intros and Trailers in After Effects
Animation for Beginners: How to Animate a Bouncing Ball
20 Best Photo Animation Effects Templates for After Effects 2023
About This Page
How We Picked
We looked at projects and considered all kinds of variables, including organization, complexity, experience required and overall difficulty, minimum hardware specifications, included versions and options, formats, resolution, file size, dependencies and required plug-ins (if any), language options, software versions supported, style, design, and cost. You can read more about how we select items at How We Pick Items to Feature on Envato Tuts+.
About the Authors
Marie Gardiner wrote this and updated it. Jackson Couse edited it, and published it.
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