💥 FREE SCRIPT - Halftone Shape Builder V1.1 | Instant ASCII & Matrix Effects in After Effects!

Hey everyone! 👋

I’m incredibly excited to share my newest custom After Effects tool with you all: Halftone Shape Builder V1.1.

If you've ever tried to create cinematic ASCII art, digital terminal rain, or geometric halftone patterns, you know how much it can lag your computer using heavy 3D layers or thousands of shape layers. I built this script to solve that problem. It uses an ultra-optimized text-engine to generate these effects instantly, playing back in real-time right on your timeline!

Best of all? I am giving it away completely for FREE! 🎁

✨ KEY FEATURES:

• 🚀 Blazing Fast Performance: No 3D layer lag! Built with an ultra-lightweight 2D text engine that renders in near real-time.

• 🔠 Custom Letters & Shapes: Choose from 5 tiers of geometric shapes (Dots, Crosses, Triangles, Squares, Circles) or type your own custom words (like "MATRIX" or your name) to build the grid!

• 🎛️ Live Master Controls: Change the Text Size, Character Fill, and Shadow Cutoff on the fly using a single Master Null—no need to regenerate the grid.

• 🎞️ True Alpha Transparency: Works perfectly with green-screen or transparent footage. The background stays 100% transparent so you can drop it over any scene.

• 🌈 Keep Original Colors: Automatically samples your source video and maps the exact RGB colors strictly onto the text characters.

• 👾 Live Glitch Animation: Turn on the "Anim Speed" slider to make your grid randomize and glitch like a live computer terminal.

📂 WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THE DOWNLOAD:

• Halftone_shape_BuilderV.1.1.jsxbin (The protected script)

• Detailed PDF User Guide

• Freeware License & Terms of Use

❤️ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: This tool took a lot of time to engineer, test, and package. While it is 100% free, if it saves you hours of work on a client project, consider joining a paid tier here on Patreon to support the creation of more free tools, or simply drop a sub on the Sohel Cinema YouTube channel!

Tag me on Instagram/YouTube if you use this in your projects—I’d love to see what you create!

Keep creating, — Sheikh Sohel

(⬇️ Download the ZIP file attached below ⬇️)