BLOOMING FLOWERS
For Adobe After Effects
What is it?
The Blooming Flowers template allows anyone to add stunning, customizable 3D flowers to your animations and motion designs in Adobe After Effects. Choose from 35 flower models—each fully customizable—to create anything from a blooming sunflower to a wilting rose or a vibrant field of tulips.
Easily animate flowers to bloom, and tweak every part of the flower (petals, stamen, sepals, stem, and leaves) with user-friendly controls. Need fast results? Drag and drop from 40 included pre-rendered flower blooms and growing leaves to quickly create lush, layered floral animations. You can even design unique custom flowers by swapping the images with your own artwork or photos. Blooming Flowers is a one-of-a-kind tool that helps creativity blossom — whether you’re a budding artist or in full flourish!
Create Blooming Flower Animations
in After Effects!
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35 Flowers, 12 Species - Includes 12 of the most popular flower species and a total of 35 unique 3D flower models, with some species featuring multiple variations and color options. Species include anemone, daffodil, dahlia, daisy, dandelion, iris, orchid, peony, rose, sunflower, tulip, and water lily. Each flower includes all the essential parts—petals, stamen, sepals, leaves, and stem—and is built in After Effects using curved 3D layers with the Cinema 4D Renderer.
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Ready to Bloom - Each flower blooms automatically with a simple two-keyframe animation on a single "Bloom" slider.
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Easy Customization - Fine-tune the look and behavior of every part of the flower using intuitive controls on a separate control layer.
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Pre-rendered Elements - Included are 40 HD clips of blooming flower heads and growing leaves. Drag and drop the elements to quickly create rich, detailed floral animations without the long render times.
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Create Your Own Flower - Easily design custom flowers by dropping your own images or artwork into dedicated comps for each flower part. Instantly see your creation bloom, and personalize it further using the built-in controls.
Features
This tutorial shows how to animate and customize your blooming flowers, and how to create your own flower designs in After Effects.
Need to Know
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This template is compatible with Adobe After Effects 2021 (v.18) and all later versions. Works in both Windows and macOS. No plugins required. Original release date: 05/30/2025.
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Warning: These flowers use the Cinema 4D renderer in After Effects. Some commonly used features of After Effects are not supported in the Cinema 4D renderer, such as Layer Styles, Motion Blur, and Blending Modes. Before you copy a 3D flower to your comp, you can switch to the Cinema 4D renderer at the bottom of your Composition panel to see if your comp still works correctly. If it doesn't, you will need to precompose the flowers to use them in your comp.
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All comps are 4K (3840x2160). The effects will work the same in any resolution. Simply change the comp dimensions in the Composition Settings panel.
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Detailed instructions are found throughout the template, as well as in the video tutorial.
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This template has been "universalized", so it will work in After Effects running in any language.
The Blooming Flowers template is not a plugin, so there is nothing to install. Rather, it's an Adobe After Effects project file, commonly known as a "template" because most of the work is already done and the user needs only to make their own customizations. This template is compatible with version 18.x (2021) as well as all later versions of After Effects.
Blooming Flowers contains copyrighted intellectual property. The animations you create with this product are 100% yours and can be used for commercial purposes, but the sharing or online posting of project files with or for anyone other than a client is prohibited. See the Terms and Conditions for more details.
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