8 Top Anime-style Templates to Make Animated Intros and Trailers in After Effects

Blast your new anime into viewers’ eyes, ears, and hearts in style using one of these anime-style stellar intros, openers, and trailer templates for After Effects.

8 Top Templates for Anime in After Effects

These anime After Effects templates are also cinematic, brazenly vibrant, and replete with dramatic transitions. Most important, they're also customizable, allowing you to build your trailer's crescendo of anticipation with precision.

Ink Trailer

Featured After Effects Anime Template From Envato Elements

Perfect for highlighting characters or stand-out shots in your film.

Key Features

This template transforms frames into a watercolor and ink aesthetic that allows you to pace your trailer like a pro. Has an organic, artistic feel, combined with its parallax effects.

Applications: After Effects
Requirements: None
Author: Videolancer

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More Anime After Effects Templates from Envato Elements

By subscribing to Envato Elements on a monthly or yearly basis, you get thousands of Premiere Pro and anime After Effects templates and other types of creative stock for your videos. Let's take a look at some more anime templates for download:

Comics Opener – Anime Intro Template

Give your opener the gravitas of cinematic drama with this intuitively designed template. Comics Opener provides dynamic backdrops that drop into your animation in the shapes of paint splatter and brush strokes so mesmerizing it’s hard to turn away.

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Color Fusion – Anime Intro Template

This funky, retro template is fun, entertaining, and, yes, colorful. Color Fusion infuses your trailer with vibrant, eye-catching, groovy circles and a light-hearted, celebratory vibe that lifts and wows.

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Sky Logo Intro

Begin your anime trailer with your head in the clouds—we all know it’s the most creative place to be! The Sky Logo Intro abstract opener has the feel of colorful, soothing pastel drawings and oil paintings, with marks of texture, lines, and shapes to enhance the heavenly vista.

Epic Story Trailer

Align your anime with the look and feel of legendary narratives of the past. Epic Story Trailer allows you to frame your movie with golden antique scrolls—torn edges, fibrous texture, and all—that scream, "Sit back, relax, and enjoy the saga that’s about to unfold."

Colorful Liquid Slideshow

Combine your anime photos or videos with text and transitions that flow across the screen in the form of raindrops, waves, swishes, bubbles, splashes, and more. Primed for use with any font and designed with a modular structure, Colorful Liquid Slideshow gives you the flexibility you need to tell your unique story.

Cinematic Trailer

This powerful, action-packed template creates fire, blasts of explosions, and wisps of smoke that might be just the epic ferocity your anime trailer needs. Combining the dramatic and the magical, the typeface in Cinematic Trailer has equally bold and impressive animation.

Parallax Freeze Frame Cartoon Trailer V1

Tip your hat to the multiplane camera technique that dates all the way back to traditional 1930s animation using Parallax Freeze Frame Cartoon Trailer V1. Offering zero and 100 percent ink opacities, customizable shading, the option of parallax effect, and full color control, this freeze frame template delivers.

Learning Resources from Envato

Improve Your After Effects Skills With Envato Tuts+ Tutorials:

If you're animating titles for anime videos, this tutorial might be helpful: How to Animate a Bounding Box Reveal in After Effects
Learn the lighting basics for animations in After Effects: How to Add Area Lighting Effects to a Cartoon Animation Using After Effects
After Effects can be overwhelming when it comes to exporting your videos. Learn how to do it properly: How to Export Video and Graphics From After Effects

Free Video Course on Adobe After Effects

Wondering how to edit anime video with templates in After Effects? First, you need to learn the basics. Try our free course on how to animate in After Effects.

Once you have this covered, it'll be easier to learn how to edit anime video with templates in After Effects.

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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+.

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Duncan Clark wrote this. Janila Castañeda updated the selection and expanded the entry for our featured items on August 31, 2022. Jackson Couse edited and published this.