Red Giant Trapcode Tao 1.0, Download

Geometric Shapes, Ribbons & More
Trapcode Tao is an After Effects plugin from Red Giant for motion graphics and VFX.

Masks, Paths & Motion
Trapcode Tao is a plugin for After Effects that creates beautiful complex motion graphics with animated extrusions, spheres and N-gons.

3D Camera & Lights
Tao quickly generates procedural 3D geometries using built-in auto paths, mask shapes, and the motion from After Effects 3D lights.

Presets
Choose from our Trapcode Tao presets, designed to give you a head start. Every preset is fully-customizable.

Features

Animate
Powerful offset tools make it easy to animate your extruded paths and geometries.

Repeat
Create intricate, complex geometric designs using 2 sets of repeaters.

Looping
Loop animations for motion graphics and backgrounds with Trapcode Tao's powerful offset and looping system.

Lighting
Illuminate your motion graphics with After Effects lights, specialized Tao Lumi lights, or Image Based Lighting for fast and realistic renders.

Materials and Textures
Create photoreal motion graphics with textures and included reflection/environment maps. Tao includes 14 HDRI maps for use in your work.

Depth of Field
Create camera-realistic blurs for your Tao objects, based on their distance from the After Effects 3D camera. The new Depth of Field effect makes it easy to integrate Tao into your live action shots and motion graphics.

Taper
Taper your paths and geometries and then animate their growth, for organic looking motion designs.

Second-Pass Wireframe
Add a second-pass wireframe on top of your Tao geometries. Great for creating stylized or vector-style imagery.

Fractal Distortions
Choose from regular, Multi, SmoothRidge, Multi SmoothRidge for varying organic displacements of the Tao geometries.

Presets
Includes 25 fully-customizable presets to get you started in your motion graphics work.

GPU-Accelerated
Tao runs on OpenGL, giving you incredibly fast feedback and rendering.