2016 was an awesome year on Envato Market for lovers of Adobe After Effects: there were tons of great projects to choose from! In this article we cover 20 templates and projects that show promise to become popular in 2017, plus we look back on 30 projects and templates that topped the charts in 2016.
20 Best New After Effects Templates of 2016 on VideoHive
30 Simple Titles
30 unique titles and lower thirds graphics templates in resolutions up to 4K. Easy to customize with an integrated title controller: quickly change zoom, color, backgrounds, shadows, and duration.
FX Particle Builder | Fire Dust Smoke Particular Presets
Breathe life into your project by creating fire, dust, smoke, sparkle,
flames or glass particle effects the fastest and easiest way possible. Requires Trapcode Particular.
Dynamic Opener
Upbeat and stylish opener with 35 placeholders and full color control.
Rigmo: Rigged Character Animation Mockup
Don't waste your time with rigging! Animation has never been so easy. Just design your character in Adobe Photoshop and load it into After Effects: Rigmo takes care of the rest.
Lower Thirds
24 versatile, modern and attractive lower-thirds for any project.
Platinum | Logo Reveal
Platinum includes six styles of logo reveal in 4K resolution, with updated 4K backgrounds. You can use your own logo color.
Wedding Titles
After Effects wedding titles template for professional videography
projects. Choose from a variety of vintage and modern titles to add as
openers to your cinematic wedding videos. Simply customize the text and
import your background video. Includes 14 templates.
Superhero Logo
Two openers in one! Build suspense with a comic book style, or capture a fun, upbeat vibe with the ‘love’ opener.
Cinematic Parallax Slideshow
Cinematic slide show perfect for your opener, TV show, photo/video slideshow or any media opener, even special events. Very simple and well organize project: you can easily
change the colors in just one simple step. Chang the text , drop your
media, audio and hit render.
Double Exposure Generator
Now you can make creative double exposure motion graphics easily. Packed with features: 29 preview video scenes included to use as base for your project, 15 empty scenes to fill in, preview video footage included, over 200 photos and 18 videos included, all licensed CC0, six custom map presets for making 3D effect portraits, and six animated cameras in every scene to choose from.
Urban Opener
Vibrant but edgy, this versatile pack gets you there. Harness the
energy of the urban environment with glitch effects, lens dirt and
modern aesthetics.
Upbeat Transitions
Clean graphics with bold geometric wipes create crisp visual effect in this transitions pack. Transition sounds are included for added impact.
9 Modern Glitch Titles
Glitch effects continue to go strong for 2017. This title pack takes a modern approach to glitch for a subtle distortion effects that will add a little digital drama to any project.
Liquid Motion Elements
Liquid Motion time! If you are looking for something unique, colorful
and expressive, pay your attention to this project! Some elements were
drawn frame by frame for a long time. You can combine the elements and
create unique things, whether it’s a slideshow, presentation, logo
reveal or anything you want. It’s really powerful tool for your work.
Just use your imagination!
Simple Infographics
Simple Infographics contains easily customizable and quick to use
After Effects CS6 template with animated pre made Pie Infographics
Charts, Horizontal & Vertical Charts, Minimal Horizontal &
Vertical chats, Pie Charts With Placeholders, Timelines, Call Outs, Text
Blocks & Lower Thirds and Social Icons Package up to 4k resolution.
Easy customize it and combine infographic charts with full expressions
control panel. Choose your color, holding on time, opacity, size, and,
of course, change value in few click.
Social Media Video Captions
Create engaging titles and captions like Buzzfeed and NowThis for your company’s social media videos! From Facebook to Twitter and everything in between this template has what you need to create worksafe text so your viewers can follow along without the sound on.
Map Kit
Map kit includes 202 countries, 51 US state maps, a full world map, 2D and 3D 4K maps versions for each country at 3840X2160, and Font Awesome integration for over 600+icons to use as pins.
Animated Map Path
A fully customizable project, no extra plugins required, very easy to edit, and several video tutorials are included.
Event Promo
A bold, modern opener, this sophisticated template with on-trend flat graphics promo adds sleek credibility to your project.
Clean Lower Thirds
70 Clean Lower Thirds in Full HD (1920×1080) resolution.
30 Bestselling Adobe After Effects Templates of 2016 on VideoHive
Mosaic Photo Reveal
Have you ever wanted to create a mosaic image? Now you can with Mosaic
Photo Reveal. A complex project made easy to use through this template.
Customise an elegant video project, for all occasions. Showcase 100
photos to reveal a special image of someone for their birthday, wedding,
anniversary, Xmas, Easter, special occasions, travel destination,
product launch or for your company conference. Drag and drop in your
photos, adjust the position of each to your liking, add audio, then hit
render! Some bonus texture images have been included if you’d like to
use it as the background.
Photo Gallery on a Sunny Afternoon
A beautiful display of your images gently swaying on branches of a birch
tree on a sunny afternoon. Suitable for any occasion, it includes 3
versions depending on how many images you wish to display.
Photo Motion Pro – Professional 3D Photo Animator
This incredible After Effects project file can quickly and
cleverly manipulate static images and photos to give them life,
movement, and magic! Create stunning videos from your images using only
basic After Effects knowledge.
Black Classic 3D Logo
Create a subtle and appealing ambient occlusion 3D look with reflections in After Effects. The file is very easy to change, just replace the logo and
render. You can also type text in After Effects to use with the 3D effect!
Logo Intro Elegance Flare
Add a bright and upbeat logo reveal to your project.
140 Flash FX Elements
This epic animation pack includes 20 Smoke Explosions, 20 Electrical Discharges, 20 Basic Shapes, 20 Flames Shapes, 20 Energy Elements, 20 Sharp Lines, 20 Transitions, 12 Templates, 2 Tutorials, and 140 mov files with alpha. A must see!
Pixity Land | Character Explainer Toolkit
Very cool and clean project to create a great animated explainer for
your start-up or company. This package comes with more than 500
unique elements that you can place them everywhere, changing the colors
and make your animated explainer.
Ultimate Earth Zoom Toolkit
With The Ultimate Earth Zoom Toolkit you can zoom in on anywhere on
Earth and work on topnotch graphics and visual elements. It’s the
ultimate all-in-one solution for all your broadcasting, game
development, documentary, corporate identity or
whatever-you-can-think-of needs. The comprehensive library of unique
features enables you to change anything you want, add an immense amount
of markers and graphics and customize every single piece according to
your needs.
500 Animated Icons
The Animated Icons project is a consistent set of flat icons designed to give life to any project it is added to. The design was guided by perfectionism and precision for maximum user satisfaction.
Each icon has its own custom build up animation and then it loops infinitely.
Simply drag & drop the chosen icons into your project, set your
colors and (optional) shadow by a few clicks and you are done! There is a
general color scheme applied to all icons, but you can make exceptions and set specific colors for each icon. All icons include sound effects.
Logo 3D Levels
A simple, but very useful, 3D logo template. Perfect for sports teams!
Kinetic Typography Pack
A fully-modular template to create unique typography. Ideal for corporate, promotion , social identity, presentation, and typography opener
Multi Video & Multi Text Logo Formation
This is an unique and useful logo formation in two versions for your text and
images, giving an edge to display your product line, achievement, news id, sports title, fashion work.
210 Title Animations
220 ready-made title animations: something useful for every project.
Particle Reveal
Logo animation revealing your corporate or personal brand with three different styles to choose from.
Colorful Particles Logo Reveal II
Logo reveal template with beautiful and elegant colors particles, suitable for websites, presentations, promotions.
Tablet Commercial
This template is great for developers. Version 3 also includes four new mockups.
Whiteboard Kit – Make Your Own Story
Animation kit comes with 35 pre-animated scenes. Adapt to your needs, or build your own. From the talented Mister Horse.
Lower Thirds
50 unique lower thirds and two logo animations.
Quantum HUD Infographic
Take hitech heads-up displays to a new level with Quantum – Modular HUD Infographic Package: modern, professional and stylish HUD and infographics elements. Useful elements for making sci-fi displays and mysterious intros, previewing games, tracking and match moving videos and more. In this package we have both complex HUD and data infographics and modular HUDs. You can combine them to make your own display elements.
30 Simple Titles
Like it says on the tin! Nice simple titles.
Album Memories
On old paper sheets you can hardly see shapes and silhouettes that are
so familiar to you, just as we keep past events in our memory. Then
pictures appear. They come to the surface just as events of our past
life emerge in our memory. Album Memories will help you to experience
the warmest feelings again and to keep pictures that are dear to your
heart in video format.
Photo Animator
The incredible, original photo animation template that launched a thousand videos! As many of us often do, we get into the situation that we need to
implement photos into a video (documentary, image film, reportage,...
you name it) The easy way of doing this is to simply zoom into the photo
or pan over it. If you want to give your photos more “life” you begin
to draw masks and animate single parts of the photo to give the illusion
of some camera movement. This can be very time consuming. Use Photo Animator instead!
Neon Sign Kit
Neon Sign Kit features everything you need to create realistic, 3D neon signs directly from After Effects. A simple yet powerful set up that’s perfect for creating neons with your text, logos and image, no plugins required. Take your scenes even further with all of the built-in extra features, including the ability to make a 3D sign, put your neon between panes of glass, place it on an editable truss system, or mount it to a wall. Created with simplicity in mind, all neons are seamlessly animated using one simple slider—a powerful setup to create amazing results with minimal work.
Infographics 3D Map Kit
Infographics Map Kit is designed for easy creation of nice-looking presentations.
It will save a lot of time for professionals and quite accessible to the beginner video producers.
TypoKing | Title Animation & Kinetic Typography Text
Typoking is the a complete and innovative template. Comes with 14 high-quality categories including popular and
trendy titles like: Kinetic Typography, Minimal Titles, Broadcasting
and more.
Lower Thirds
Sharp and linear lower-thirds pack.
Elegant Extrusion
Just drop in your logo and render! If you’d like to customize the
animation further, simply tweak some of the camera moves or re-time some
of the animations, and you can turn this project into something
completely different in a matter of minutes.
Included with the project file is a in-depth video tutorial to help you customize the project quickly and easily. See also: Elegant Inversion.
Flip Characters
This is a simple and super versatile template to write text or numbers, to build counters or a clock from flipping characters. Sound effect included in the project file.
Photo Frames
Display your photos, thoughts, ideas and personality through an elegant
and dynamic HD presentation. This stylish project, with pre-made designs,
is ready for you to fill with your images, and make it your own.
Combine your photos and videos with powerful text, and choose the
perfect musical bed to enhance your message. Transitions keep
your presentation flowing seamlessly, while your words and music add
depth and direction.
SEO: Corporate Typography Pack
Very cool and clean typography project. This package comes with 27 scenes, including social,
internet, infographic, and corporate animations.
What's on Your Watch List?
Will last year's champs remain strong, or will the newcomers rise to the top?