{"id":25150,"date":"2013-06-06T12:39:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T16:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=25150"},"modified":"2016-05-10T08:39:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T13:39:15","slug":"free-after-effects-script-connect-layers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/free-after-effects-script-connect-layers\/","title":{"rendered":"Free After Effects Script: Connect Layers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"motion-boutique-the-makers-of-the-popular-newton-physics-engine-have-released-a-free-script-for-connecting-layers-in-your-after-effects-project\">Motion Boutique, the makers of the popular Newton physics engine, have released a free script for connecting layers in your After Effects project!<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25152\" title=\"Adobe After Effects\" src=\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/adobe-after-effects-all-ver-24.jpg\" alt=\"Adobe After Effects\" width=\"490\" height=\"58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/adobe-after-effects-all-ver-24.jpg 490w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/adobe-after-effects-all-ver-24.jpg?resize=300,36 300w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/adobe-after-effects-all-ver-24.jpg?resize=277,33 277w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/adobe-after-effects-all-ver-24.jpg?resize=359,42 359w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/adobe-after-effects-all-ver-24.jpg?resize=150,18 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Create interesting shapes and designs in After Effects using the <a title=\"Connect Layers Script\" href=\"http:\/\/motionboutique.com\/connect-layers-1388`\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Connect Layers script<\/a>. The <strong>FREE AE script<\/strong> was created to visualize the joints in Motion Boutique&#8217;s Newtwon 2 physics engine, but also works well on it&#8217;s own (Newton isn&#8217;t required). The script will <strong>connect multiple layers in After Effects<\/strong>\u00a0together with lines and triangles (via shape layers). Take a look at this example video to see the free connect layers AE script in action:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/66350974?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=899001\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Connect Layers script supports 3 connecting modes:<\/p>\n<p>Rope (2D only)<br \/>\nSpanning Tree (2D and 3D)<br \/>\nTriangulation (2D and 3D)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Connect Layers AE Script\" href=\"http:\/\/motionboutique.com\/connect-layers-1388\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><strong>Download the script from the Motion Boutique site<\/strong> <\/a>and be sure to watch the following demo video to see how to work with it in your AE projects. Quickly create (and modify) unique 3D shapes and models in After Effects &#8211; very cool!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/67290862?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=899001\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the FREE script by Motion Boutique! Connect multiple layers in an AE project together to create cool effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,5135,39],"tags":[5375,134,1806,80,51,1805,5376],"class_list":["post-class-post-25150","post-class-post","post-class-type-post","post-class-status-publish","post-class-format-standard","post-class-has-post-thumbnail","post-class-hentry","post-class-category-after-effects","post-class-category-free-for-video","post-class-category-video-editing","post-class-tag-after-effects","post-class-tag-free-2","post-class-tag-motion-boutique","post-class-tag-motion-design","post-class-tag-post-production","post-class-tag-scripts","post-class-tag-video-editing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v21.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Free After Effects Script: Connect Layers - The Beat: A Blog by PremiumBeat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the FREE script by Motion Boutique! 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