Iwerks

Iwerks draws your After Effects 3D scene the way an animator would: flat toon shading and ink lines, straight from AE's own camera, lights and models. No second 3D app, no export. You keep moving the camera, keying lights and animating in After Effects, and the drawing follows.

What it draws

• Toon shading from AE's lights: bands, soft edges, shadow colour, rim light and highlights.
• Ink lines: outlines, inner lines where parts overlap, and creases on sharp folds. Each has its

own width, colour and strength.

• A hand-drawn feel: wobble that sticks to the surface, lines that swell and thin, and boil every few frames.
• Technical drawing: the model's hard edges, and dashed hidden lines behind surfaces, for a blueprint or CAD look.

• Separate outputs: Lines, Toon, a Light matte, Normals, World Position and Object ID, to grade each one on its own.

Works on

GLB models (animated ones too), 3D text and AE's own cubes, spheres, planes, tori, cones and cylinders, in comps using the Advanced 3D renderer. Uses every CPU core and Multi-Frame Rendering.

Needs

Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and After Effects 2025 or newer. macOS is not available yet.

In the download

The plugin, a Read Me with install steps and every control explained, and the licence.

Named in tribute to animator Ub Iwerks. Not affiliated with or endorsed by his estate, The Walt Disney Company or Adobe.