Kudasai Co / AE Plugin Suite
Kudasai (ください) — "kudasai" is Japanese for "please", a small, polite ask of the tools you rely on every day.
Precision-built After Effects extensions for motion designers who don't have time to waste. Free tools and pro plugins, made in the timeline.
Simulate any Illustrator brush stroke directly inside After Effects. Select a brush, draw a path, hit bake — Brush Lab converts your Illustrator brushes into fully animated AE strokes with accurate weight, taper, and variation. No manual tracing. No back-and-forth between apps.
Converts Illustrator brushes into fully animated AE strokes with accurate weight, taper, and variation — no manual tracing required.
Five GPU-accelerated After Effects plugins for authentic print, riso, and retro rendering. Built on Metal. Comes with a ScriptUI panel, 79 ink swatches, and 20 presets — everything you need to get the look right the first time.
Five GPU-accelerated effects for authentic risograph, halftone, dither, stipple, and grain rendering — all driven by Metal.
Export animated AE paths to Photoshop for raster brush stroking. Draw your motion in After Effects, stroke it with any Photoshop brush — real bristle textures, watercolour bleeds, chalk on paper. No curve quality loss, no manual redrawing.
Animate paths in AE, export frame-by-frame as JSON, then stroke them in Photoshop with any raster brush — real textures, zero redrawing.
Manage, duplicate, and batch-export compositions using Essential Properties and CSV data. Analyze a comp's properties, auto-generate a CSV template, import variations, and render them all — one panel, zero manual repetition. Pair it with the Essential CSV Editor for a complete browser-based CSV workflow.
CSV-driven comp duplication and batch export — analyze properties, generate templates, import variations, and render everything from one panel.
Batch export frames from any composition as PNG sequences. Timecode-format inputs, tabbed UI, non-blocking progress — built for heavy production pipelines.
Batch export any comp's frames as PNG sequences with timecode inputs and non-blocking progress — built for heavy production pipelines.
Batch-populate Dropdown Menu Controls across your project. Paste a list, apply to selected layers — stop doing it by hand.
Paste a list, pick your layers, and batch-populate every Dropdown Menu Control in your project — no more doing it by hand.
Generate clean write-on paths from any text or shape layer. SVG skeletonization → AE Trim Path, zero manual masking.
SVG skeletonization to AE Trim Path — generate clean write-on animations from any text or shape layer, zero manual masking.
Built for real production work
Every plugin in the Kudasai Co suite started as a tool built to solve a real problem on a real deadline. Motion design, broadcast, education — these aren't concepts, they're battle-tested.
Kudasai (ください) — "kudasai" is Japanese for "please", a small, polite ask of the tools you rely on every day.
These plugins come out of real production work: motion design, education video, broadcast, brand. Every script here solved an actual problem. They're free or fairly priced, properly documented, and won't rot in your Scripts folder.
Built with ExtendScript + ScriptUI. Tested on After Effects 2022–2025. Made in Adelaide.