Automate After Effects and motion graphics

The problem: Rebuilding the same lower third or template for every version and language

These tools let AI build layers, keyframes and expressions in After Effects, or write motion graphics as code that renders to MP4. Best for repetitive, versioned work, you stay the director

See it work

What it looks like

Twelve monthly profit and loss bars animating in, one of the demo scenes in the project's README — Twelve monthly profit and loss bars animating in, one of the demo scenes in the project's README Source: README of Engine-Room-Games/after-effects-mcp

Biennale Yellow, one of the design templates in the HyperFrames docs — Biennale Yellow, one of the design templates in the HyperFrames docs Source: README of heygen-com/hyperframes

Watch it work

Video thumbnail: Claude + After Effects: AI Animations You Can Actually Edit — Luke Byrne makes editable After Effects animations with Claude and the Engine Room MCP Luke Byrne (AI Luke) · 12:15 Source: Luke Byrne (AI Luke) on YouTube

Video thumbnail: Control Adobe After Effects with AI (After Effects MCP) — Plainly's own walkthrough of controlling After Effects with AI through their MCP Plainly · 7:50 Source: Plainly on YouTube

Video thumbnail: Generate Animated Videos with Claude Code (Remotion Agent Skill Tutorial) — Snapper AI makes animated videos with Claude Code and the official Remotion agent skill Snapper AI · 9:48 Source: Snapper AI on YouTube

Real people doing this

Jason Cooperson sets up the Premiere Pro MCP Bridge and lets Claude edit in Premiere Jason Cooperson · 20:58 Source: Jason Cooperson on YouTube
“Claude video editor does not replace creativity”
Used Claude with a Premiere Pro MCP and HyperFrames to cut about 9 minutes of raw footage into a 4 minute rough cut in roughly 15 minutes, and to build an animated Mars and Earth graphic from one detailed prompt. He still did a quick grain and contrast pass by hand

Jason Cooperson, YouTuber · YouTube video, summarized by Modern Creator, Jul 2026
“Claude scripts After Effects for you, and you stay the director”
Uses Dakkshin's After Effects MCP mostly through its runScriptFile tool, so Claude writes ExtendScript and After Effects runs it. They make medical device training videos in many parts and languages, so asks like a shorter ending or 5 language versions become a quick rebuild instead of an afternoon of keyframing

u/leadtimelabs, Reddit user · r/ClaudeAI, Aug 2026
“Text changes become one line of code, and exporting becomes a single command”
Delivered a 30 second ad for a real project without opening an editor, using Remotion with the official Agent Skills and Claude Code. Porting an earlier 35 second ad with 7 scenes took Claude Code under an hour

jeong, developer, Zenn · Zenn, Jul 2026
Asked Claude through Blender MCP to make a cup holder for a big Yeti thermos and look up its size online. A few minutes later there was a 3D model ready to print

u/AlarmingLength42, Reddit user · r/ClaudeAI, May 2025
Set up blender-mcp with Open WebUI and GPT 4.1 and got an analog clock showing the current time, but found tool calls hit and miss beyond simple tests

u/promptasaurusrex, Reddit user · r/LocalLLaMA, Apr 2025
Their team designed one After Effects template and rendered 20,000 personalized donor thank you videos from a CSV file. This used the Plainly platform itself, not the MCP server, and the case study is written by Plainly

UNICEF Australia, Plainly customer · Plainly case study

19 tools that help

After Effects MCP (Dakkshin)

Solves Building comps, text, shapes and keyframes in After Effects by asking instead of clicking

After Effects

Medium setupFree1 real example

HyperFrames (HeyGen)

Solves Making motion graphics, captions and callouts with AI and rendering them to MP4

FFmpeg, Programmatic video

Medium setupFree2 real examples

Remotion Agent Skills (official)

Solves Making ads, explainers and data videos with code that Claude writes for you

Programmatic video

Easy setupFree1 real example

Plainly Videos MCP (official)

Solves Rendering lots of versions of your After Effects templates in the cloud without opening AE

After Effects

Easy setupPaid1 real example

mcp-aftereffects (Kumo Productions)

Solves Checking and changing an open After Effects project, then kicking off renders, with one undo for each change

After Effects

After Effects MCP (Engine Room)

Solves Making lower thirds, logo reveals and counters from a one line description, as editable layers

After Effects

open-fusion-mcp

Solves Building real Fusion titles, kinetic type and UI animations from a prompt

DaVinci Resolve

Hard setupFreeStudio only

ae-mcp (JUNKDOGE-JOE)

Solves Chatting with AI right inside After Effects so it can build and fix layers for you

After Effects

Medium setupFree

AE MCP Bridge

Solves Letting AI look at your rendered frames and fix keyframes and expressions until the shot looks right

After Effects

Medium setupFree

After Effects MCP (HeroicSwan)

Solves Running After Effects jobs from an AI agent without babysitting the app, with frame checks along the way

After Effects

Medium setupFree

AE-MCP (70+ tools)

Solves Driving most of After Effects from Claude: comps, layers, effects, animation and expressions

After Effects

Medium setupFree

aftr

Solves Scripting After Effects from code or an agent when you need the same edits on many comps

After Effects, FFmpeg

Medium setupFree

After Effects MCP (Enhanced Multilingual)

Solves Animating, masking and rendering in After Effects from prompts, in several languages

After Effects

Medium setupFree

after-effects-mcp-vision

Solves Letting AI see what it just made in After Effects or Illustrator and fix it

After Effects, Illustrator

Medium setupFree

After Effects Codex Agent rules

Solves Getting cleaner After Effects results from Codex by giving it house rules to follow

After Effects

DaVinci Resolve Fusion MCP (free version)

Solves Building Fusion nodes with AI on Resolve Free

DaVinci Resolve

Medium setupFreeFree edition

MCP for Blender (formerly blender-mcp)

Solves Building 3D scenes, lights and cameras in Blender by describing them

Blender

Easy setupFree plan + paid2 real examples

CartCut

Solves Making layered motion edits in an editor built with AI agents in mind

Agent native editors

VibeFrame

Solves Going from a short brief to a finished video using AI generated shots

AI video generation, FFmpeg

Medium setupFree

Ideas to try

These are our ideas, not reports from real users. Know one?

Build one lower third template, then ask the agent to make a version for every name in a spreadsheet
Let the agent render a few frames to PNG and check its own work before you look

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New AI connectors for After Effects, Premiere, Resolve and CapCut, tested setup notes, and what broke after app updates. One email a week.