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MotionPilot

An After Effects panel that turns a sentence into compliant motion. It reads your composition's real layers, plans the animation, and writes keyframes — locked to the same motion-tokens.json the rest of MotionRules uses.

Get it on Adobe Exchange How it works

Requires Adobe After Effects 26.0–26.9. Newer major versions are not covered yet.

Real AE capture: enter an intent, generate a constrained plan, write editable keyframes, and preview the result. The wait is shortened; the AE result is real.

One sentence in

Describe the feel — "title eases in, cards pop one by one" — and MotionPilot plans it into a motion DSL.

Locked to the spec

Curves, durations and stagger can only come from motion-tokens.json, so output is compliant by construction.

Real keyframes, not expressions

It writes visible, editable AE keyframes with eased handles — never hidden expressions.

Install

Get MotionPilot from Adobe Exchange.
Adobe Creative Cloud installs it for you — then restart After Effects.
Open Window → Extensions → MotionPilot. It reads motionrules.com/spec/ by default.