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**School of Motion YT**
Overlord 2 ($75.00 USD) THE quintessential program to share work between After Effects, Illustrator, and down the road, more. See the page above to view its features, reviews, and roadmap of future planned developments and features. Best of all, it’s a one time purchase. No subscription.
For an overview on the program and its features, head on over to Jake In Motion’s video on YouTube.
Rubberhose ($65.00 USD) Another banger from Battle Axe, Rubberhose allows you to rig characters with ease.
For more information and a visual demonstration, check out their overview series on YouTube.
Timelord ($45.00 USD) Three for three from Battle Axe, Timelord is more for the creatives that work with 2D animation programs like Adobe Animate and Photoshop in conjunction with After Effects for seamless integration between the three. Plus, additional timeline and frame edition toolbar options for Photoshop that make it 1,000 times easier to animate within.
Anubis ($25.00 USD) Coming up last from Battle Axe, Anubis allows you easily and quickly render, export, and compress MP4 videos to folders of your choosing with ease in fantastic quality. Perfect for preview passes to send to your client when you don’t want to deal with Adobe Media Encoder.
EaseCopy (Name Your Own Price) Easily copy and paste your eases without overwriting your values, and values without overwriting your eases. An absolute lifesaver when animating in After Effects.
Penpal 2 ($45.00 USD) An incredible tool that allows you to easily edit and animate points, paths, and tangents with the ease and control of what you would find in Illustrator, all within After Effects. Another no-brainer.
Explode Shape Layers 3 ($29.99 USD) This plugin allows you to break apart your shape layers and their contents into separate individual shape layers, as well as allowing you to group individual shape layers together into one.