Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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What's up guys, Max here. Today I'll show you how to make a circle-packed grid in After Effects, packing your footage into animated circles, using GridMaker's Advanced Mode.

Grab GridMaker with a free trial at the link below. It installs through Filmit Studio along with the whole plugin suite, and I am a big part of the team that makes them.

What you'll learn:
- Installing GridMaker through Filmit Studio
- Opening Advanced Mode and the Pack tab
- Setting circle count, gap, and size variation
- Choosing the animation: column by column or center out
- Create New Comp, then Apply to Selection for your images
- Packing a single image

Get GridMaker (free trial): filmit.io/gridmaker
Download Filmit Studio (free): filmit.io/studio
Join the Discord (tag me, @max): filmit.io/discord

Timecodes:
0:00 What we are building
0:21 Get GridMaker through Filmit Studio
1:13 Open Advanced Mode
1:34 The Pack tab
1:54 Circles, gap, and variation
2:10 The animation
2:30 Create the comp
2:47 Add your images
3:58 Single image mode
4:17 Wrap up

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