AiBow Impact Burst

AiBow Impact Burst, at Aibow Impact Burst, is an After Effects effect by AiBow Tools, sold through aescripts + aeplugins. It produces the impact frame seen in anime openings as a single effect.

You put it on an adjustment layer above the shot, and the hit lands as ten frames, with a line-only flat frame, six frames of three-tone radial spikes, a two-frame pastel flash and one dark frame. AiBow Tools says the timing was measured from a 30 fps anime opening. The frame count of each stage can be changed or set to 0 to skip it, and Burst Hold keeps each spike shape for 2 frames or more for a heavier hit.

Timing is set with Fire At. With Layer Markers, you put a marker where the blow lands and every marker gets its own hit. Other modes fire from the layer start, a trigger, every N frames, a BPM or comp markers. Four timing presets are included, named Magenta Hit 10f, Short Hit 6f, Mono Ink 10f and Burst Only 6f.

The Gacha! button in Random Look gives a new color set and spike shape on each press. There are 11 color presets, among them Magenta Neon, Blood Red, Electric Blue and Mono Ink, or you can set the shadow, mid, highlight, flash and dark frame colors yourself. Burst controls include Center, Streak Length, Spikiness, Spike Count, Background, Ring Frame, Center Jitter and Zoom Punch, and Seed changes the spike pattern while keeping other settings.

Applied to a text or shape layer, the effect leaves transparent areas transparent, so the spikes grow out of the letter shapes over the footage.

Impact Burst needs After Effects 2025 or above on 64-bit Windows. AiBow Tools says a Mac version is planned as a free update. It renders on the GPU with DirectX 11 or on the CPU, at 8, 16 and 32 bpc. Version 1.0 was released on November 12, 2026.

Pricing: AiBow Impact Burst is listed at $24.99 on aescripts, with a special price of $18.99 until November 14, 2026. A free trial is available from the product page. Checked November 12, 2026 at https://aescripts.com/aibow-impact-burst/.