If you’ve ever wanted to arrange elements into a circle in After Effects, thinking you can just use an Adobe Illustrator-like paste with transform workflow, you probably have been disappointed. After Effects has no such workflow for making quick arrays like that. Instead of doing some maths in your head, as simple as it may be, why not just pick up Circle Align from aescripts + aeplugins. The After Effects script allows you to easily align and distribute layers into a circle.
Circle Align comes to use form Misaki Akatsuki (SUNRISE MOON), creator of a great many other Ae tools. Circle Align features controls for:
- Axis
Specify the center axis - Distance
Distance from central axis - Distance step
Distance to add for each arrangement - Initial angle
First angle to be placed
(12 o’clock position when the Z axis is 0 degree) - Distance
Distance from central axis - Focus on axis
Align the axis of the layer with the central axis - Reverse
Reverse direction for Focus on axis - Distribute
How to distribute - Angle Interval
Angle spacing to place - Focus on axis
Align the axis of the layer with the central axis - Reverse
Reverse direction for Focus on axis - Live update mode (thunder button)
When you operate the slider, you change the value in real time.
Learn more about the Circle Align tool for After Effects and download a copy here.
