About Swiss Knife

Swiss Knife provides a collection of 20 scripts for Adobe After Effects, organized into four functional groups. The parallaxer group includes Parallax 2D for simulated depth, Parallax 3D for true 3D spacing, Extruder for generating geometry from placeholders, and Stack for arranging layers in linear sequences. The interactor group adds tools that link animations to other properties, position relationships, markers, time offsets, and main object rotation. Placeholder utilities enable using shape or image layers as stand‑ins, pinning assets to path vertices, and pre‑composing selections with automatic time‑remap activation. The support set supplies additional helper functions for project workflows. All tools work together in numerous combinations and are compatible with After Effects versions from CS6 up to the 2025 release. The plugin is listed as free in this catalog, though licensing terms may evolve.

Features

• Parallax 2D creates a fake parallax effect with 2D layers
• Parallax 3D produces true 3D distribution between near and far distances you type manually
• Extruder extrudes from placeholders, and Stack builds linear stacks in 2D or 3D space
• Dependence puts any animation in dependence of any other property; Interactor uses positions between the last selected layer and others
• Animarker links animation to markers, and Offset animates parameters with a time delay
• Revolver takes object rotation and links it to the main object
• Placeholder uses shape or picture layers as placeholders for footage stacks; Switcher precomposes selected layers, crops to the biggest layer, and turns on Time Remap

Best for

Artists and motion designers creating character animation, video edits, templates, or UI/UX motion graphics in After Effects.