01EffectCraft

06EffectCraft

Motion graphics and visual effects, in pure Rust.

Compositions, layers, keyframes, 259 effects, expressions, 3D cameras and lights, and a render queue in a native compositor written in pure Rust. Young, moving fast, and already usable.

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An animated title on the timeline

Screenshot

EffectCraft's composition panel showing an animated EFFECTCRAFT title, with the project panel, a timeline of text, shape and solid layers, and the properties panel

02Highlights

What's inside.

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    Animate the way you know

    Familiar panels and keyframes: linear, bezier, hold and eased keys, roving keys, and a graph editor with value and speed curves.

  2. 02

    Layers of every kind

    Solids, shapes, text, footage, nested compositions, nulls, adjustment layers, cameras and lights, with parenting, track mattes and 38 blend modes.

  3. 03

    259 effects

    Blur, color correction, distortion, generators, keying, particles and simulation, stylize and time effects, each with sensible defaults.

  4. 04

    Real 3D

    3D layers with cameras, depth of field and lights that cast soft ray-traced shadows, plus orbit, pan and dolly tools.

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    Expressions

    JavaScript expressions with wiggle, loops and layer references, edited inline and linked straight to any property.

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    Export anywhere

    H.264 and ProRes with alpha, PNG, TIFF and 32-bit EXR sequences, GIF, and Lottie import and export for the web. No FFmpeg inside.

03Screenshots

EffectCraft's graph editor showing an eased value curve for a text animatorFull size
Graph editor with eased keyframes02
EffectCraft's effect controls for a particle simulation bursting from the center of the compositionFull size
Particle simulation effects03
EffectCraft's 3D showcase: intersecting cards lit by a spot light with soft shadows on a gridded floor, seen from a custom camera viewFull size
3D cameras, lights and soft shadows04

04Get EffectCraft

Installers

Installers are on the way.

Native installers for macOS, Windows, and Linux are coming. Join the ArtCraft Discord to get them first, try early builds and talk with the team building EffectCraft.

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Build from source

Run it today.

Needs Rust 1.95 or newer. New to Rust? Install it with rustup, then run:

Terminal
git clone https://github.com/storytold/effectcraft.git
cd effectcraft
cargo run --release -p effectcraft
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Help shape EffectCraft.

Report bugs, request features and get early builds of EffectCraft in the ArtCraft Discord.

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