Pixelfan

Create a stroke along any path using another layer as the texture.

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Description

What you've been missing.

With Pixelfan, create strokes that use any layer as the texture.

Your missing effect.

You want to outline a mask with a custom texture.

"Surely," you think, "After Effects must include a way to do this."

Nope.

Plus: more features

Fine tune or animate your result with powerful parameters.

Playing around with the advanced feature "Original Frame mode", where the underlying later itself is used as the stroke's texture.

Tutorial

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Version History

1.2 -

Oct 11, 2023

"The SuperSonic Update"

- Rendering is now up to 4.5x faster. Yes, really!

- Fixed bug that caused AE to crash with certain kinds of paths

1.1 -

Jun 19, 2023

"The Sonic Update"

- Scrubbing the timeline and changing parameters are almost twice as fast

- Progress is shown at the bottom of the composition preview window

- Improved render time on Windows ~3%

1.0.3 -

Mar 25, 2023

- Fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.0.1 that made the plugin not work on some Macs

1.0.2 -

Mar 21, 2023

- Fixed a bug on Windows that caused the plugin to not load on some computers

- Improved performance on Windows

1.0.1 -

Dec 23, 2022

- Fixed a bug that occasionally caused the plugin to fail to render a frame or crash AE

- Significantly improved performance and stability on Mac

1.0 -

Nov 11, 2022

- Initial release

Compatibility

After Effects

2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022