After Effects Plugins For Free, Free Plug-Ins For After Effects

1. Alpha Plugins FirTree
This plugin allows you to create very realistic fir tree branches. Great for use in your Christmas and New Year videos.

2. Buena AEFlame
AeFlame allows you to create and animate cosmic recursive flame fractals.

3. FAN XMult
XMult creates an alpha channel based on the highest luminance value of each pixel. A compensation is made to the RGB channels due to the attenuation of the applied alpha channel. It has 8 or 16 BPC

4. Fnord j2k
J2k is a free Photoshop and After Effects plug-in set for reading and writing the JPEG 2000 file format, the successor to JPEG.

5. FnordSuperTiff
SuperTIFF is a free plug-in for Adobe After Effects that provides more complete support for TIFF than AE does natively.

6. Feischluft Field Fixer
Allows the user to correct field problems manually by selecting upper and lower field for the current frame.

7. Frischluft HSL Selection
This is a stand alone version of the selection method found in Flair and Lenscare. Usage is obvious, hopefully.

8. Minning Normality 3
Normality 3 allows CG Artists to light 3D objects and scenes directly within the familiar Adobe After Effects environment through the use of normal passes and advanced relighting techniques.

9. Minning Atlas
Atlas is a port of the pfstmo tone map­ping oper­a­tors to the Adobe After Effects plugin for­mat. This plugin is free open source soft­ware licensed under the GPL.

10. Minning Celulight
Celu­light is designed to auto­mat­i­cally gen­er­ate nor­mal maps from sim­ple out­lines or cel draw­ings. The result­ing nor­mal map can then be used by Nor­mal­ity to cre­ate real­is­tic or toon shad­ing effects.

11. Minning Edgar
This plugin is designed to work in com­bi­na­tion with Nor­mal­ity and gen­er­ates squeaky clean car­toon out­lines. Edgar uses a novel, pro­pri­etary algo­rithm devel­oped specif­i­cally for the pur­pose of con­vert­ing nor­mal passes into line art for use in car­toon and anime pro­duc­tions.

12. Minning Floodgate
Floodgate can be considered an advanced paint bucket or fill tool specifically designed to work efficiently with cel animation.
Where the aforementioned tools only fill a single area with one color at a time, Floodgate floods up to 64 distinct areas with up to 8 different colors, enough to color an entire character in After Effects with a single instance of the filter.

13. Minning Generator
Gen­er­a­tor is a sim­ple and free plugin for Adobe After Effects which can be used to cre­ate nor­mal maps from alpha mattes, such as text and shape lay­ers.

14. Minning Occlusionist
The Occlu­sion­ist is a spinoff of the plugin Nor­mall­ity and is used to gen­er­ate screen space ambi­ent occlu­sion (SSAO) and global illu­mi­na­tion effects.

15. Mocon Script
This is a collection of scripts used to transfer 3D motion to and from After Effects, Maya, Nuke, SynthEyes and Electric Image. Cameras (Orientation and Reference), Objects, Camera Rigs and 3D stabilization, Pan/Tilt, 3D to 2D. (Req: AE 6.5 +, Maya 6.5+, Nuke 4.6+, SynthEyes 2007+, EI 5.0+).

16. Normality 3
Normality 3 is a powerful plug-in that allows CG Artists to light 3D objects and scenes directly within the familiar Adobe After Effects environment through the use of normal passes and advanced relighting techniques. They offer a great FAQ and some great tutorials (http://aeportal.blogspot.com/2009/07/normality-3-video-tutorial.html) on how to use the plugin.

17. Noise Industries Star Titler
The Star Titler generator lets you reproduce the look of the opening titles first used by the Star Wars movie in 1977.

18. Pete Warden FreeFrame FX
FreeFrame is the open-source cross-platform real-time video effects plug-in system designed for use in VJing applications. There are over 150 FreeFrame plug-ins available from a diverse range of developers.

19. Noise Industries Pan and Zoom
The Pan and Zoom plug-ins let you create the photo animation style made popular by Ken Burns with intuitive controls and automatic motion control that achieves stunning results without a single keyframe.

20. Noise Industries SUGARfx - Foto Maestro
The first Spanish-language plug-in by SUGARfx lets you animate a still picture or media using a Pan & Scan effect with drop shadow and customizable interpolation curve.

21. Noise Industries CoverFLux
The iTunes-style scrolling image generator plug-in for Final Cut Pro, Motion, Final Cut Express and Adobe After Effects.

22. ObviousFX Copy Image
A simple utility that copies the current composition image to the system clipboard, allowing easy pasting into other image applications (such as Adobe Photoshop). It bypasses the task of saving the current frame to an image file and then reopening.

23. ObviousFX Erodilation
Erodilation erodes or dilates an image, to produce blocky, glowing or hollow effects.

24. Omino Free AE Plugins Pack
The Omino After Effects Suite is a handful of plugins written by David Van Brink They are absolutely free.

25. Phillipp Spoeth RetroDots
William Christenson came up with the idea for this nice little filter. This plug-in was originally developed for Photoshop.

26. Phillipp Spoeth Shear
What this effect does is a simple 'shear' Effect. It's not just performed horinzontal or vertical as usually but along a selected line.

27. Phillipp Spoeth SineDots
Sinedot was originally developed as a Photoshop Filter then converted to AE.

28. Phillipp Spoeth SineDots II
This is a slightly more advanced version of Sinedots. It's basically the same effect with a few extensions.

29. Quacker
This filter automatically gives you an authentic feel for a camera shake that mimics earthquakes.

30. Video Copilot Reflection
This plugin enables AE to customize the look of the reflection in 3D space