The Easiest Way to Make Proximity Animations in After Effects
43.3K views · 2026-07-15
Motion Design
🚀 The plugin I built for this: https://www.neuronfx.com/products/mograph-effector-2-0
Mograph Effector 2.0 brings MoGraph to After Effects — cloners, effectors, and fully procedural animation across hundreds of layers, with zero keyframes. This journey started 2 years ago when I released the Mograph Effector Pro Presets and now I am very excited to share with you Mograph Effector 2.0 which has been re-designed from the grounds up focusing on ease of use and flexibility.
In this video I break down how it works and build several scenes from scratch that were genuinely impossible in After Effects until now.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- How to clone layers procedurally in After Effects (like a C4D cloner)
- Using effectors to animate hundreds of layers at once — no keyframes
- Creating grid, radial, and text-based clone arrays
- Building falloff-driven animation that reacts as you drag a single slider
- Layering multiple effectors for complex procedural motion
WHY THIS MATTERS
After Effects has always lacked a true procedural animation engine. Motion designers who wanted MoGraph-style cloners and effectors had to jump to Cinema 4D / Cavalry or fake it with nested nulls and copy-pasted expressions. MographEffector brings that entire workflow natively into After Effects — no round-tripping, no 3D app required.
Whether you're building motion graphics, logo animations, abstract loops, kinetic typography, or data-driven visuals, this plugin unlocks animation techniques that simply weren't possible in AE before.
💬 What should I build with this next? Drop it in the comments — I'll make the top suggestion in an upcoming video.
👍 Like & subscribe for more After Effects and motion design tutorials.
#AfterEffects #MotionDesign #MoGraph
Mograph Effector 2.0 brings MoGraph to After Effects — cloners, effectors, and fully procedural animation across hundreds of layers, with zero keyframes. This journey started 2 years ago when I released the Mograph Effector Pro Presets and now I am very excited to share with you Mograph Effector 2.0 which has been re-designed from the grounds up focusing on ease of use and flexibility.
In this video I break down how it works and build several scenes from scratch that were genuinely impossible in After Effects until now.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- How to clone layers procedurally in After Effects (like a C4D cloner)
- Using effectors to animate hundreds of layers at once — no keyframes
- Creating grid, radial, and text-based clone arrays
- Building falloff-driven animation that reacts as you drag a single slider
- Layering multiple effectors for complex procedural motion
WHY THIS MATTERS
After Effects has always lacked a true procedural animation engine. Motion designers who wanted MoGraph-style cloners and effectors had to jump to Cinema 4D / Cavalry or fake it with nested nulls and copy-pasted expressions. MographEffector brings that entire workflow natively into After Effects — no round-tripping, no 3D app required.
Whether you're building motion graphics, logo animations, abstract loops, kinetic typography, or data-driven visuals, this plugin unlocks animation techniques that simply weren't possible in AE before.
💬 What should I build with this next? Drop it in the comments — I'll make the top suggestion in an upcoming video.
👍 Like & subscribe for more After Effects and motion design tutorials.
#AfterEffects #MotionDesign #MoGraph