Adobe has launched a public beta of its AI Assistant for After Effects, enabling motion designers to manage entire projects efficiently through plain-language prompts, significantly enhancing creativity and workflow automation showcased at IBC 2026.
Adobe has moved its AI Assistant for After Effects into public beta, giving motion designers a tool that can inspect an entire project, not just the active composition. At IBC 2026, the company demonstrated a system that can summarise project contents, reorganise messy asset structures, write expressions and repair broken rigs using plain-language prompts.
According to Adobe’s documentation, the assistant is designed to handle tasks such as renaming, colour-coding and restructuring project items, while also helping users generate images and video. It is accessed from the Assistant panel or the Window menu, and is built to work across the full project so that it can make changes beyond the file currently open.
That broader reach is what made the live demonstration notable. In Adobe’s booth, Jason Druss showed the tool sorting through a large After Effects project, locating texture and grain layers buried in different parts of the file and collecting them into one composition. He also used it to build a stop-motion style effect from a Photoshop frame file, asking for jitter, rotation, scale and frame-rate variations before applying the same rig to multiple pre-compositions and text.
The assistant also tackled one of After Effects’ more technical jobs: expression work. Adobe says the feature can write and debug expressions, and the demo showed it finding and fixing broken links in a project that would otherwise require manual tracing through complex layer relationships. The launch fits into Adobe’s wider push to embed generative tools across Creative Cloud, including new media-generation features for Premiere Pro announced alongside the After Effects beta at IBC.
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