Automate Color Animation in After Effects With Color Shift
Color Shift is the After Effects plugin that automates gradients, hue shifts, and color transitions, helping motion designers create smoother, faster animations.
Why Designers Love Color Shift
Animating color in After Effects can be fun until you’re stuck keyframing hundreds of layers just to create a smooth transition. That’s where Color Shift steps in. Created for motion designers who value both speed and precision, this plugin automates color animation while keeping your creative control fully intact.
Whether you’re working on a text animation, a looping background, or UI motion graphics, Color Shift lets you add flowing gradients, hue rotations, and dynamic color transitions across your entire composition in just a few clicks.
How Color Shift Works
Color Shift works by reading the properties of your selected layers like hue, brightness, and saturation and generating automated transitions based on your chosen settings. Instead of manually setting dozens of keyframes, it smoothly shifts colors over time or in response to motion, giving your animation a natural, reactive look.
One of the biggest advantages of Color Shift is how much time it saves. Designers often spend hours tweaking gradients to make transitions look perfect, this plugin does that instantly. You can apply consistent color behavior across multiple layers and compositions, ensuring your project looks unified from start to finish.
And when paired with plugins like Pixel Repeat for glitch effects or React 2 for motion-driven transitions, Color Shift becomes part of a powerful toolkit for building dynamic, professional-quality visuals.
See It in Action
In the YouTube tutorial on Plugin Play’s channel, you’ll see Color Shift applied to animated text and background transitions in real time. It shows exactly how small tweaks like adjusting hue ranges or animation timing can instantly elevate a simple composition into something visually rich and fluid.
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