AiBow Tools releases AiBow Impact Burst for After Effects

AiBow Tools released AiBow Impact Burst on aescripts, an After Effects effect that produces the impact frame from anime openings.

Put it on an adjustment layer above your shot and the hit plays as ten frames. That's one line-only flat frame, six frames of three-tone radial spikes, a two-frame pastel flash and one dark frame, a sequence AiBow Tools says it measured from a 30 fps anime opening. You can change the frame count of each stage or set it to 0 to skip it.

To time it, set Fire At to Layer Markers and add a marker on the frame of contact. Each marker gets its own hit. It can also fire from the layer start, a trigger, every N frames, a BPM or comp markers. The Gacha! button picks a new color set and spike shape on every click, and there are 11 color presets and 4 timing presets, plus spike controls such as Spike Count, Streak Length and Zoom Punch. On a text or shape layer, transparent areas stay transparent, so the spikes grow out of the letter shapes.

Impact Burst is Windows only for now, and AiBow Tools says a Mac version is planned as a free update. It needs After Effects 2025 or later and renders on the GPU with DirectX 11 or on the CPU. It's listed at $24.99, with a launch price of $18.99 until November 14, 2026, and has a free trial.