Pluginplay - Curves 1.0.4 for After Effects
https://www.pluginplay.app/product/curves
- Curves by Plugin Play is a powerful motion design utility designed to bring precise, intuitive curve-based animation and easing controls directly into Adobe After Effects. It expands the limited native capabilities of After Effects’ graph editor by providing a custom, visual, artist-friendly interface for shaping animation curves, making keyframe-based motion smoother, more expressive, and far easier to fine-tune.
- At its core, Curves lets you interactively shape and edit easing curves in a way that feels more like working in modern animation tools than in AE’s standard graph editor. Instead of dragging tiny handles directly on individual keyframes, Curves gives you a centralized curve workspace where you can visualize, adjust, and blend motion paths more naturally. This helps designers achieve advanced timing effects without guesswork or frustration, especially when tweaking complex movements, bounces, overshoots, and follow-through animations.
- One of Curves’ most useful features is its preset curve library, which includes a range of professionally tuned easing profiles such as smooth ease-ins/outs, snappy curves, elastic motions, and more. Designers can apply these curve presets to selected keyframes with a click, instantly improving motion quality and consistency. Curves also allows you to save your own custom curves so you can build a personal library of motion styles for future projects — a huge time-saver for repeat animations and brand-specific motion languages.
- Unlike After Effects’ limited native graph editor, Curves shows you not only the value graph but also the velocity and influence relationships in an easy-to-read curve format. This makes it much simpler to fine-tune animations to feel alive and responsive, especially for UI motion, character rigs, kinetic typography, or detailed product animations. This visual clarity helps reduce trial-and-error adjustments and lets you focus on the intent of the movement rather than wrestling with numeric handles.
- Curves works smoothly with both position, rotation, scale, opacity, and custom properties, giving you wide flexibility to control motion across your entire timeline. Changes apply nondestructively, and Curves updates in real time so you can see the impact of your edits immediately in the composition panel. This feedback loop accelerates workflow and helps designers iterate with confidence.
