We animate for a living — Lupe Cosmo is the toolkit we built for our own work, polished until it was worth sharing. A pro animation panel plus nine native Rust plugins for After Effects: glow, glitch, ASCII, scanline waves, micrographics, 3D lines, perceptual gradients, text framing and motion tracing. One purchase, no subscription.
Compiled Rust plugins that render inside After Effects at 8/16/32-bpc — multithreaded, deterministic, and driven from the panel with one-click presets.
Physically-based bloom with tonemapping, starburst flares, lens dirt, chromatic aberration and anamorphic stretch.
Real DCT compression damage, datamosh-style temporal drag, pixel sort and codec chaos — all keyframeable.
ASCII & symbol-grid generator: terminals, digital rain, halftone, braille, circuits, oscilloscope phosphor looks.
Scanline engine: pixel repeat, FM modulation with holographic line modes, and luminance-driven pixel melt.
Procedural micrographics generator — 128 modules, 23 presets, live fake telemetry, sci-fi HUD panels in seconds.
3D polylines driven by real nulls, camera and lights — tapered strokes, wiggle, fog and depth, up to 16 points.
Perceptual gradients in OKLAB / HCL — 7 blend modes, 5 movable color stops, plus a CSS & SVG import library.
Bake motion-tracking data into editable nulls and layers, straight from the effect to your timeline.
Frames text with independent fill & stroke: 11 shapes, per line/word/character boxes, smooth follow and real motion blur.
Design eases you can feel before you apply them — then drive plugins, cameras and lighting from the same place.
Every plugin is native compiled code running inside AE's render pipeline — no expressions, no pre-comps of doom, no placeholder footage.
SmartFX with true 32-bit float support, so glows, gradients and transitions survive HDR and heavy grading without banding.
The panel talks to every plugin through a preset bridge: pick a look, it builds the layer, applies the effect and dials it in.
No subscriptions. Free updates. License transfers between your machines.
Download the package, unzip, and run the one-click installer (Mac: .command / Windows: .bat) — or install the signed .zxp with any ZXP installer. Restart After Effects: the panel lives in Window → Extensions, the plugins in Effects → Lupe Cosmo. Prefer to do it by hand? See the manual install guide.
No. Pay once, use forever. Updates within the major version are free.
Yes — the panel and the plugins ship for macOS (Intel + Apple Silicon) and Windows 10+, After Effects 2023 and newer.
You get a license key by email after purchase. Enter it once in the panel; it verifies online and keeps working offline between checks. You can deactivate and move it to another machine anytime.
They're compiled native code (Rust), multithreaded, and support 8/16/32-bpc pipelines. No pre-renders, no placeholder footage — everything is procedural and cache-friendly.
The full suite — panel + 9 plugins. One purchase, yours forever.
Get Lupe Cosmo — $40