In this article, we cover templates and projects for Adobe After Effects that have proven popular on Envato's creative markets and services over the last couple of years. We'll also introduce you to some brand new Adobe After Effects templates with great potential!
Envato Elements is the best option if you're a video creator who uses After Effects daily—for a low monthly fee, you'll have unlimited After Effects templates, stock video, and more. But what if you're starting out with video and don't want to subscribe yet? No problem, we've got you covered with no-cost template options—scroll down to the bottom and you'll find free After Effects templates from Mixkit, also part of Envato.
Top After Effects Templates From Envato Elements
ToonShow (Broadcast Pack)
Featured After Effects Template Pack — From Envato Elements
This fun, wildly animated pack includes openers, transitions, lower thirds, and a number of 'toon FX' for you to create something truly entertaining.
Key Features
This After Effects template comes in Full HD, needs no plugins, and is easy to customize. You'll get all the effects you need for a TV show in After Effects.
- Applications: After Effects
- Requirements: None
- Author: Dyomin
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Envato Elements has an unlimited subscription with millions of creative stock items, including hundreds of After Effects and Premiere Pro templates, plus audio tracks, fonts, graphics, presets, and more.
More Templates for Premiere Pro From Envato Elements
These premium After Effects templates are all included as part of a subscription to Envato Elements:
Fresh Transitions
Looking for After Effects templates with multiple transitions? With this download you'll get particles, overlay, glitch, camera movement, and artistic effects in one download.
VFX Explosions for After Effects
All video creators need VFX explosions in their effects archive. This is a dynamic After Effects template with realistic effects like fire, smoke, and explosions.
Travel Vlog Opener
Trendy and fun, this opener for After Effects is perfect if you're a travel guru! Create a stylish travel slideshow with placeholders for 13 media items and 11 text items.
Game Zone (Broadcast Pack)
Welcome to the Game Zone! If you have a gaming channel, blog, or vlog, then this broadcast pack for After Effects is perfect. It includes an opener and closer, transitions, animated backgrounds, FX, and much more.
Logo Abstract
If you're looking for a brand new way to jazz up your animated logo, then give this abstract template a try. Based around a glitch theme, it's atmospheric and powerful.
Movies Titles Opening
Looking for intro templates in After Effects? Go for a stylish, cinematic movie effect with these opening titles for After Effects footage. They're filled with grunge effects and are fast-moving to help build a real sense of anticipation.
YouTube Kit
Great for any blogger or vlogger to jazz up your channel offering. Just drop your After Effects footage into the placeholders, edit the text, and you're good to go.
Instagram Stories Business Pack
This After Effects template is made specially for Instagram Stories, so it includes nine 'swipe up' overlays and 21 designs separated into six categories.
Instagram Bundle: Motion Titles Library
Another great bundle for Instagram users who want to up their content game—this After Effects template lets you add fancy motion titles to your Stories.
70 Glitch Title Animation Presets Pack | Glitch Text Maker
70 premade text animations await you with this glitch-style template set, and they work with any font. There are six different types of glitch animation, and there's a video tutorial included in the download.
Instagram Stories
Updated to include 34 templates, Instagram Stories for After Effects makes use of dynamic animation and unique graphics.
Corporate Digital Infographic
It's not unusual for clients nowadays to request animated infographics. Create corporate infographics with this After Effects template by just changing the data and colors. This download features six different scenes with graphics, data, numbers, and other graphic elements.
140+ Spin & Pan Transitions
If you're looking for versatile Adobe After Effects templates, this is one to get. In one click you can download over 140 transitions that work with photo and video. It also features a video tutorial.
Top After Effects Templates on Envato Market
If you prefer to buy Adobe After Effects templates as you need them, then here's a great selection from Envato Market.
30 Simple Titles
Download 30 unique titles and lower thirds templates in resolutions up to 4K. They're easy to customize with an integrated title controller: quickly change the zoom, color, backgrounds, shadows, and duration.
FX Particle Builder | Fire Dust Smoke Particular Presets
Breathe life into your project by creating fire, dust, smoke, sparkle, flames, or glass particle effects in the fastest and easiest way possible. Requires Trapcode Particular.
Dynamic Opener
This upbeat and stylish opener features 35 placeholders and full colour control.
Rigmo: Rigged Character Animation Mockup
Don't waste your time with rigging! Animation has never been so easy. Just design your character in Adobe Photoshop and load it into After Effects: Rigmo takes care of the rest.
Lower Thirds
Download 24 versatile, modern, and attractive lower-thirds for any project.
Platinum | Logo Reveal
Platinum includes six styles of logo reveal in 4K resolution, with updated 4K backgrounds. You can use your own logo color.
Wedding Titles
Use this After Effects wedding titles template for professional videography projects. Choose from a variety of vintage and modern titles to add as openers to your cinematic wedding videos.
Superhero Logo
Two openers in one! Build suspense with a comic book style, or capture a fun, upbeat vibe with the ‘love’ opener.
Cinematic Parallax Slideshow
This cinematic slideshow is perfect for your opener, TV show, photo/video slideshow, or any media opener—even special events.
Double Exposure Generator
Now you can make creative double exposure motion graphics easily. This set is packed with features including 29 preview video scenes to use as a base for your project, 15 empty scenes to fill in, over 200 photos, and much more.
Urban Opener
Vibrant but edgy, this versatile pack gets you there. Harness the energy of the urban environment with glitch effects, lens dirt, and modern aesthetics.
Upbeat Transitions
Clean graphics with bold geometric wipes create crisp visual effects in this transitions pack. Transition sounds are included for added impact.
9 Modern Glitch Titles
This title pack takes a modern approach to glitch for a subtle distortion effect that will add a little digital drama to any project.
Simple Infographics
Simple Infographics contains an easily customizable and quick-to-use After Effects CS6 template with animated premade infographics, charts, and much more.
Social Media Video Captions
Create engaging titles and captions like Buzzfeed and NowThis for your company’s social media videos! From Facebook to Twitter and everything in between, this template has what you need to create worksafe text so your viewers can follow along without the sound on.
Map Kit
Map kit includes 202 countries, 51 US state maps, a full world map, 2D and 3D 4K maps versions for each country at 3840px by 2160px, and Font Awesome integration for over 600 icons to use as pins.
Event Promo
A bold, modern opener, this sophisticated template with on-trend flat graphics will add sleek credibility to your project.
Clean Lower Thirds
Download 70 clean lower thirds in Full HD (1920×1080) resolution.
Mosaic Photo Reveal
Customise an elegant video project for all occasions. Drag and drop your photos, adjust the position of each to your liking, add audio, and then hit render! Some bonus texture images have been included to use as backgrounds.
Photo Motion Pro: Professional 3D Photo Animator
This incredible After Effects project file can quickly and cleverly manipulate static images and photos to give them life, movement, and magic! Create stunning videos from your images using only basic After Effects knowledge.
Logo Intro Elegance Flare
Add a bright and upbeat logo reveal to your project.
140 Flash FX Elements
This epic animation pack includes 20 Smoke Explosions, 20 Electrical Discharges, 20 Basic Shapes, 20 Flame Shapes, 20 Energy Elements, 20 Sharp Lines, 20 Transitions, 12 Templates, 2 Tutorials, and 140 mov files with alpha. A must-see!
Pixity Land | Character Explainer Toolkit
Create a great animated explainer for your start-up or company. This package comes with more than 500 unique elements that you can place everywhere.
500 Animated Icons
The Animated Icons project is a consistent set of flat icons designed to give life to any project it is added to.
Logo 3D Levels
A simple, but very useful, 3D logo template. Perfect for sports teams!
Kinetic Typography Pack
A fully-modular template to create unique typography. Ideal for corporate, promotion, social identity, presentation, and typography opener
Multi Video & Multi Text Logo Formation
This is a unique and useful logo reveal in two versions for your text and images, helping you display your company logo and information in style.
Particle Reveal
This logo animation reveals your corporate or personal brand with three different styles to choose from.
Colorful Particles Logo Reveal II
Try a logo reveal template with beautiful and elegant color particles, suitable for websites, presentations, and promotions.
Whiteboard Animation Pack
Are you looking for fun After Effects projects? This pack of After Effects templates comes with 2,500 whiteboard elements to create your own story.
Lower Thirds
Explore 50 unique lower thirds and two logo animations.
Quantum HUD Infographic
In this package we have both complex HUD and data infographics and modular HUDs. Combine them to make your own display elements.
30 Simple Titles
Looking for intro templates in After Effects? With this download, you'll get 30 simple titles. It includes a video tutorial.
Album Memories
Album Memories will help you to experience the warmest feelings again and to keep pictures that are dear to your heart in video format.
Photo Animator
The incredible, original photo animation template that launched a thousand videos! Animating photographs is now so much easier and less time-consuming with the Photo Animator template for After Effects.
Neon Sign Kit
Neon Sign Kit features everything you need to create realistic, 3D neon signs directly from After Effects. Take your scenes even further with all of the built-in extra features, including the ability to make a 3D sign, put your neon between panes of glass, place it on an editable truss system, or mount it to a wall.
5 Cool Free After Effects Templates to Use in 2022
Are you looking for the best free After Effects templates for your project? Here's a selection of free After Effects templates from Mixkit, part of the Envato family. There you'll find free After Effects logo templates, free After Effects slideshow templates, and more. If you're just starting as a video creator and you need to practice in After Effects, these are a great option.
Mixed Transition Intro: Free After Effects Template
This is one of the coolest free After Effects intro templates. The collection of video transitions and heading text has a dynamic look.
Split Text Intro: Free After Effects Template
Looking for free After Effects intro templates with text? This is a creative text animation with letterbox style transitions. If you need free After Effects intro templates, check this out.
Logo Glitch Reveal: Free After Effects Template
Free After Effects logo templates are always useful. This is an animated static fracture effect and distortion over a logo reveal. It's one of the popular free After Effects logo templates.
Video Mask Title: Free After Effects Template
Do you need modern free After Effects title templates? This is a video mask title with bold heading text and sliding transitions. It's one of the most useful free After Effects title templates to have.
Fade Slideshow: Free After Effects Template
This is a modern slideshow animation with blur and fade transitions. If you're looking for free After Effects slideshow templates, this is for you.
Learning Resources From Envato
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Or if you want a more specific project to work on, join Jonathan Lam as he teaches you how to create liquid animation titles in After Effects, step by step.
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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 Video Templates to Feature on Envato Tuts+.
This page was updated with contributions from Maria Villanueva, associate Editor of the Tuts+ Design channel, and Janila Castañeda, a staff writer with Envato Tuts+. It was edited by Jackson Couse.
