Text to After Effects: AI Particles & 3D Effects | ArbiFX

Meet ArbiFX

ArbiFX has two parts: an After Effects plugin and the arbifx.com website.

ArbiFX is a highly controllable AI visual effects tool. Describe the effect you want in natural language, and ArbiFX generates a renderable, adjustable effect directly in After Effects. The parameters you care about appear in the Effect Controls panel, so you can keyframe them and link expressions just like any other AE effect.

Plugin: create in After Effects

• Use the AFX effect and its Start window to generate filters, particles, models, scenes and more from a text description.
• Attach an image, document or 3D model as a reference, and bring in your own OBJ models and SVG graphics.
• Results are applied straight to the layer and can respond to the comp camera and comp lights.
• Save effects as .afx files to reuse them later or share them with others.

Website: manage and share

• Browse public works from the community in the Gallery, preview them interactively and download their .afx files.
• Use the Dashboard to see everything you have generated with the plugin, choose what to make public, and manage API Keys, credits, plans and your account.
• Connect with other creators through likes, favorites and comments.

Describe and generate

Write a clear description and make good use of scene options, control parameters, references and thinking levels.

Effect description

Describe the image you want in Effect description in natural language. The more specific you are, the closer the result will be. It helps to say what the subject is, how it looks and what colors it uses, how it moves and how fast, and how it relates to the original footage (for example, layered over it or as a standalone background).

• Example: “A blue-violet energy ring in the center of the frame that slowly expands outward and fades, with small electric arcs flickering along its edge.”
• Pressing Enter adds a new line and does not send. Click the Send button when you're done.

Control parameters

In Control parameters, list the things you want to adjust in the Effect Controls panel, separated by commas, for example: “Rotation Speed, Glow Intensity, Main Color, Particle Count”. After generation, each one appears in Effect Controls as a suitable control, such as a slider, checkbox, color, angle or position.

Use Comp Camera

Check Use Comp Camera to make the generated effect follow the active camera in your composition. Camera movement, rotation and zoom are all reflected in the effect, which is ideal for work that has to match a 3D camera move.

Scene options

Click the + button in the input area to open Scene options and combine these switches:

Attach a reference

Click the paperclip Attach reference button, or drag a file onto the input box or paste it in, to attach a reference file that helps ArbiFX understand the style or content you want.

• Supported files are images (png, jpg, jpeg, webp, gif, bmp), documents (txt, md, json, pdf) and 3D models (obj, glb, gltf).
• Each file can be up to 20 MB. Only one reference is used at a time; if you pick several, only the first is used.
• Click the remove button on the reference to take it off.

Insert references

Click the @ button, or type @ in the description, to open the mention menu and insert the text and assets you have prepared:

• @TXT: the display text set in “Text and font”.
• @OBJ0 – @OBJ7: the OBJ model in the matching slot.
• @SVG0 – @SVG7: the SVG graphic in the matching slot.
• Use ↑ ↓ to choose, Tab or Enter to confirm and Esc to close the menu.

Example: “Form the text @TXT from converging particles while @OBJ0 slowly rotates behind it.”

Pick color

Click the palette Pick color button, choose a color and click Insert. The color value is inserted into your description so you can specify colors precisely.

Thinking level

The Thinking level sets how much thought ArbiFX puts into a generation. Choose Low, Medium (default), High or Extra High. Higher levels suit complex, detailed effects but take longer and use more credits. The thinking level applies to every AFX effect and is remembered.

Sending and generation

1. After you click Send, your request appears in the message area, followed by progress messages such as “Thinking...” and “Generating effect...”.
2. The input area is locked during generation. Only one generation task can run at a time.
3. When it finishes, you'll see Applied., and the status in Effect Controls changes to Applied Successfully.

• Your draft, conversation and any task in progress are kept even if you close the Start window or the project. Reopen it to pick up where you left off.
• Sending another description on the same AFX effect refines the current effect, for example “switch to cool colors and slow it down by half”.
• To start a completely new effect, add a new AFX effect.

Adjust, save and load

Fine-tune effects in Effect Controls, and save or reuse them as .afx files.

Adjust in Effect Controls

After generation, the items you listed in Control parameters appear under the AFX effect. Like any AE parameter, you can drag them to adjust, set keyframes or link expressions to animate them.

Depending on the effect, Effect Controls may also show these fixed parameters:

Save an .afx file

Click Save in the Start window to save the current effect as an .afx file. The current parameter values in Effect Controls become the file's defaults, so you can reuse the look you've dialed in.

Load an .afx file

1. Add an AFX effect to a layer and click Start to open the Start window.
2. Click Load and choose an .afx file (for example, one downloaded from the Gallery).
3. The effect is applied to the layer right away. Keep adjusting its parameters, or send a new description to refine it.