Crates Doodle Outline - Plugin for After Effects and Premiere Pro

Generate Instant Hand-Drawn Effects

Add a burst of creativity to your videos with Crates Outline Doodle. This dynamic plugin for After Effects and Premiere Pro instantly generates stylized, animated outlines and patterned borders around your subjects.

Designed for music videos, social content, and dynamic sports edits, the Outline Doodle plugin takes your isolated foreground elements—requiring a simple mask or rotoscoping—and wraps them in highly customizable, vibrant "doodles".

Avoid painstakingly animating frame-by-frame and let the plugin generate kinetic, hand-drawn texture that follows your video perfectly.

Artistic Presets for Instant Vibes

Crates Outline Doodle features a robust set of presets that range from clean minimalist lines to chaotic, colorful aura effects.

Simple Themes: A variety of single-color options, including the Default, Rings, Webs and Sunny.
Creative Themes: Choose from thematic styles like Fire Aura, Starry Night, Ocean, and Rainbow to instantly match the mood of your edit.
Abstract Design: Use the Webs, Rings, or Ripple presets to create unique, unconventional borders.
Text-Ready Options: Specifically designed presets like Text - Electric and Text - Crayon allow you to apply artistic outlines to your titles as easily as your footage.

All presets are easily editable, simply choose the preset closest to your intention, and adjust the spacing, color and distortion to get the look you need.

Randomization & Animation

Control the "Boiling" Kinetic Effect

What makes a doodle edit exciting is the movement. Our plugin gives you full control over how the lines "live" and react over time.

Animated Zig-Zag: Toggle on high-energy vibrations that pulse around your subject.
Random Offsets: Use Random Offset and Random Spacing to ensure the lines feel hand-drawn and unique on every single frame.
Framerate Control: Drop the Framerate down to 7.00 or lower to achieve that classic "boiling" animation style seen in professional rotoscoped music videos.

We recommend adding a "Posterize Time" Effect after Doodle Outline for the best results, as this stabilizes and forcefully freezes each frame of the video.

How to add Doodle Outlines to After Effects

The Crates Doodle Outline plugin is the best way to add hand-drawn outlines to your videos.

Duplicate your layer
Use the Rotobrush tool, and double click your video to begin masking the object you wish to stylize
Simply add Crates Doodle Outline from the ProducitonCrate Mograph category.
Find your perfect preset, and adjust the parameters as needed.

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PRO TIP:

Add a Posterize Time effect after Doodle Outline to improve the "animated" feeling of your drawing. Values of 7 are best!

How to add Doodle Outlines to Premiere Pro

The Crates Doodle Outline plugin is the fastest way to add hand-drawn sketch outlines to your videos.

Duplicate the layer.
Use the Object Mask tool and select the feature of your video.
Click "Track" to save the animated movement of the element.
Apply the mask to the Opacity dropdown
Right click and select Nest (to precompose the opacity mask)
Apply Crates Outline Doodle to the nested layer.
Select a preset and adjust.

Pro Tip

Add Posterize Time after the effect to create a much better stop-motion feeling to your doodles.

Realtime Performance & Integration

Native Speed for Modern Editors

We’ve optimized Outline Doodle to be as fast as it is creative. As a native plugin for After Effects and Premiere Pro, it fits perfectly into your existing workflow.

GPU Accelerated: Enjoy fast previews and renders even when using multiple lines and heavy distortion.
Flexible Blending: Use the Blending Mode dropdown to composite your doodles in-front or behind, or choose None to isolate your doodles.
Smart Input: Easily toggle between Alpha and other input types to ensure the plugin reads your masks and rotoscoping data perfectly every time.

POWERFUL AND FAST

Crates Doodle Outline uses the GPU to simulate hand-drawn doodle effects in realtime.

COMPATIBLE ON WINDOWS + MAC

Crates Doodle Outline is compatible with Windows and Mac devices on the latest versions of After Effects and Premiere Pro.

INCLUDES 20+ PLUGINS

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