• BAO Boa is a powerful After Effects plugin designed to deform and warp layers along any mask path — giving you spline-deformer style control directly inside AE. If you’ve ever wished for a flexible way to bend, twist, stretch or contour your layers without having to leave After Effects, Boa delivers with precision, speed, and depth of control.

Key Features

• Warp layers along mask paths — You can use masks as guides (paths) to distort any layer, giving you an intuitive way to map shapes, graphics, textures or images to flowing forms.

• 3D controls — Rotate, scale, move your splines in 3D space; adjust Z-position and scale per vertex. This adds spatial realism and lets your warped element react properly to AE cameras and lighting.

• Stretch with vertices match — Works similarly to Puppet Pins: individual mask vertices are matched so that distortion segments behave more predictably along the path.

• Undistort parts of a texture — For example, you might want to bend a character’s arm along a path but keep the hand undistorted for clarity. Boa allows masking or limiting distortion to parts of your layer.

• Mesh definition and sub-sampling — Control over how fine or coarse the mesh is lets you balance between performance and visual smoothness.

• Extrude & contour options — Adds contouring and extruding in 3D to give more depth and realism to warped forms.

• Fast rendering; native plugin — Since Boa is native to AE, it leverages After Effects’ rendering systems efficiently, keeping workflow smooth.

Compatibility & Licence

• Works with After Effects versions going back several years (AE 2014 up through AE 2025).