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Adobe's AI Assistant for After Effects has reached public beta, reading entire projects to reorganize files, write expressions, and fix broken rigs. The live demo on the IBC show floor was impressive.
At IBC2026, Adobe demonstrated the new AI assistant for After Effects, now in public beta, from its booth. Jason Druss put it through its paces, and it really did what you would hope an AI assistant would do: save you time.
Druss walked through the tool's ability to read an entire After Effects project rather than just the comp currently open, and showed it solving problems familiar to motion designers and video editors alike.
For motion designers inheriting large, poorly organized projects from colleagues, the assistant can summarize the contents of a project and reorganize it on request, work Druss said can otherwise take up to a full day. For video editors less versed in After Effects, the assistant can write expressions, the JavaScript-based system used to build advanced animation rigs, without the user needing to code.
Druss demonstrated all this by building a stop-motion animation effect from a Photoshop file of picture frames, asking the assistant to generate a rig for jitter, rotation, scale and frame rate, then applying variations of that rig across multiple pre-comps and, later, to text. He also had the assistant locate texture and grain layers scattered throughout a large source file and collect them into a single comp, and used it to find and fix broken expressions, a task he said would otherwise mean manually tracing errors through complex layer relationships.
Watch it in action below.
Video: Jesse Calis at Halate
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