Painted

Painted works with After Effects 2022 and newer. It is a CEP extension, so any version of After Effects with the Extensions panel runs it.

Yes. Free forever, with no trial, no watermark, and no locked features. Download it and start painting.

Install Motion Dock, our free panel for every Motion Fun tool, then add Painted to your dock from Edit Layout. After the first install, restart After Effects and find Motion Dock under Window → Extensions.

Painted now lives inside Motion Dock, alongside every other Motion Fun tool. One free install gets you all of them, updates are handled for you, and you only put the tools you want on screen.

You can edit it. Every stroke is a shape layer path animated with Trim Paths, grouped by brush into layers and parented to one Canvas layer. Retime it, recolor it, mask it, or add effects like any other shape layer.

Painted reads PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF, and BMP stills. Photos with a clear subject look great, but bold type, gradients, and pixel art are just as fun. Use Paint focus to steer the fine brushes toward the part that matters.

Mixing the paint in the panel takes a second or two. Building into After Effects depends on stroke count: around 18,000 strokes took about 35 seconds on our machine. Fewer brushes or lower Detail means fewer strokes and faster builds.