After Effects come with a good free collection of shapes presets that you may not know about it allows to quickly create shapes without the need of creating it in Illustrator. So on this article I have created a shapes presets preview gallery where you will be able to preview one without the need to trying them in After Effects, sweet right 🙂

Where are the After Effects Shapes Presets located?

In the Effects & Presets window there are a bunch of animated shapes presets you might not be aware of. To use them check out the steps below.

Open the Effects & Presets window.
Expand *Animation Presets
Expand the Shapes folder
Click on any of them
Drag and Drop to your composition.

Animation Presets Shapes Preview Gallery

Below a preview of all the Animation Presets Shapes, just click on + to expand and preview.

Box-Swarm
Box Swarm Kaleidoscopic Nerve Net – Circular
Nerve Net – Penta

60s-text Chasing Line Dots
60s Text Bar Chasing Line – Boxes Chasing Line – Dots
Mod Boxes
Marquee Chasers Mod Boxes Ring Chart
Wireframe Worm
Wireframe Worm

Alien Face animated Circular cellular division Dancing Knot
Alien Face – animated Circular – cellular division Dancing Knot
Mandala Animated Phase Scope Spiro Mandala
Mandala – animated Phase Scope Spiro Mandala
Twinkle Star

Alien Calligraphy Alien Face Box dashed lines
Alien Calligraphy Alien Face Box – dashed lines
Bullseye Circular – half round
Bullseye Circular – half round Circular – tri dash
Crosshair brackets Crosshair – round Crosshair Square
Crosshair – brackets Crosshair – round Crosshair – square
Fan Blades Flower Power
Fan Blades Flower Power Gear 1
Gear 2 Holy Light Indian Sun
Mandala RayStar-4
Mandala RayStar-4 RayStar-8
Rounded Bracket beveled Rounded Bracket double Seaside Daisy
Rounded Bracket – beveled Rounded Bracket – double Seaside Daisy
Tri Cog
Tri Cog