Free After Effects Plugin |Animation

Curve
‍‍‍Slammer

The analog easing unit is back. In digital form. For free.

The legendary CS-116 shaped a generation of animation with hand-tuned anticipations and overshoots that made keyframes feel alive. Select your frames. Pick your mode. Hit SLAM. That's it. That's the plugin.

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The CS-116 Analog Curve Module. First built by a small team of rogue animators who believed keyframe easing shouldn't require a PhD. Hand-wired. Temperamental. Absurdly expensive.

The original units were rack-mounted beasts that ran hot and hummed at 60Hz. Disney had three. Warner Bros. allegedly had one but nobody could find the manual. ILM tried to build their own and gave up.

Every classic overshoot you grew up watching? That was the CS-116.

After decades of being available only to studios who could afford the five-figure price tag and a dedicated power supply, School of Motion has painstakingly modeled the original circuitry and brought it to After Effects.

For free. Because we're unhinged like that.

See the slammer in action

One button. Instant soul.

Watch the full walkthrough, from install to
your first SLAM in under 2 minutes.

Two of 500 studio profiles inside the ebook

Three Steps. One button.

Select. Set. SLAM.

Curve Slammer doesn't have 47 tabs, a preferences window, or a manual thicker than your arm. It does one thing — adds anticipations and overshoots to your keyframes — and it does that one thing with conviction.

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Step 01

Select your keyframes

Pick 2 or more keyframes on any property. Position, scale, rotation, opacity — the CS-116 doesn't discriminate. Got multiple groups on the same layer? It auto-detects and color-codes them for you.

Step 02

Dial in your mode

STIFF — tight and controlled. SMOOTH — the all-rounder. RUBBER — elastic and unhinged. Set your timing and strength with the sliders.

Step 03

Hit SLAM

Pick 2 or more keyframes on any property. Position, scale, rotation, opacity — the CS-116 doesn't discriminate. Got multiple groups on the same layer? It auto-detects and color-codes them for you.

The proof is in the slam

Linear keyframe are
a cry for help.

Every animation on the left uses default After Effects easing. Every animation on the right was run through the CS-116. Same keyframes. Same timing. One button.

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Simple move- Linear easing

Lifeless. Robotic. Straight to sadness. Do not pass GO. Tonight, we dine in hell.

Same move - SLAMMED

Anticipation. Overshoot. Settle. Life. Profit. Livin' the dream.

Text Slide - EasyEase

The default AE experience. Pain. Existential dread. Stare in the the void, it stares back.

Same text - SLAMMED

Elastic. Bouncy. Alive. You're welcome. Thank me later. No, thank me NOW.

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Curve‍‍‍Slammer

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