You can find more details and purchase the plugin on the official Plugin Everything site or through aescripts.com. Extrude — Plugin Everything
Unlike native After Effects extrusion methods—which require converting typography into editable shapes—this plugin keeps typography fully live. Text strings can be modified on the fly without breaking the extrusion geometry. It fully respects continuously rasterized boundaries, keeping font edges sharp at extreme scales. The engine also supports variable fonts, allowing artists to animate font weights while maintaining perfect edge geometry. 2. Native Animator Integration
The plugin balances raw rendering performance with flexible stylization features, enabling designers to handle complex shape interactions without crashing the timeline: Plugin Everything - Extrude for After Effects F...
: Robustly handles self-intersecting paths and variable fonts. Plugin Everything ⚠️ Known Limitations Motion Blur : Must be applied as a post-process using effects like CC Force Motion Blur Depth of Field
The plugin works natively with built-in After Effects text animators. Properties like character tracking, line spacing, line anchors, skew, and character offsets render cleanly. If a range selector scales individual characters up or down, the extrusion depth scales dynamically in real time. 3. Inner Extrusion Shading You can find more details and purchase the
Optimized to run flawlessly on modern M-series chips without relying on heavy Rosetta translation layers.
One of the standout features is the built-in shading engine. You can define light sources to automatically highlight edges and cast shadows across the extrusion, giving your layers a premium, tactile look that "fake" extrusions usually lack. Extrude isn’t just for text. You can apply it to: Vector Shapes: Perfect for logo animations. Masks: Turn simple paths into complex 3D structures. Pre-comps: Extrude entire animated scenes. 4. "Hidden" Backfaces Core Extrusion Modes
Extrude doesn’t just copy and paste your layer backward to simulate depth. It generates a genuine mesh that interacts with After Effects' native 3D cameras and lights. The plugin calculates the "sides" of the text or shape, allowing you to apply separate colors or gradients to the front face, the sides, and the back. This allows for that classic "high-end broadcast" look instantly.
You frequently create 3D text/logos and hate C4D’s workflow. Skip if: You need realistic 3D rendering, massive polygon counts, or already own Element 3D.
by Plugin Everything is a dedicated GPU-accelerated plugin for After Effects that transforms 2D layers into complex 3D extrusions with a single click. Unlike native After Effects "Cinema 4D" rendering which can be slow and restrictive, Extrude works as a standard effect on 2D layers, maintaining support for blending modes and other standard 2D effects. Core Extrusion Modes