Glass that bends what is behind it.
Glassy turns text, shapes, and masked layers into glass that bends whatever is behind them, with curved edges, color separation, and reflections. It sees the layers below on its own, so there is no background to choose and nothing to precomp.
15–30 s, 1920×1080 and 1080×1920. Send the word “Glassy” across colorful footage, switch between all six styles, and show the glass refracting another layer as it moves through the stack.
No need to pick a background layer or precomp the scene. Glassy sees what is below it, and when you change the layer order, the glass simply follows along.
In the preview, the text is the glass and the keyframe trail is the layer underneath it.
Liquid-glass text over footage, with an edge that bends the image behind it.
Cards, buttons, and HUDs in the liquid-glass look used in today’s interfaces.
Bars and cards that let the footage show through, blurred or refracted.
A logo in Crystal or Prism, with RGB dispersion and glare.
Glass Shape Layers sweeping across the frame and bending the image.
There is no background selector. Glassy reads the composite of the layers below yours and uses it as the image the glass refracts. Move your layer in the stack and the glass refracts different layers, following After Effects’ compositing order. All the controls stay on your layer’s effect.
Your layer stays itself: its color and alpha become the material surface. Glassy creates a technical helper below it (Adjustment, Shy, Locked), which receives the composite from lower layers and uses your layer as the lens geometry.
Material starting points, with every setting still adjustable.
An SDF-derived edge lens with thickness and falloff. Refraction, RGB dispersion, and edge fringe each do a different job: dispersion shifts the R, G, and B samples separately, while fringe adds the contour’s chromatic response. Fresnel and internal reflection complete the material.
Use Composite or separate passes to layer the glass on top, or send Normals and Displacement to another effect.
These are the parameter groups as they appear in After Effects. Every control is animatable.
16:9 thumbnails of all six styles (Liquid, Frosted, Crystal, Gel, Prism, Chrome) over the same background.
3 artist projects, each with a name, link, and testimonial.
A short artist quote, name, role, and studio, with a photo or avatar.
A second testimonial, ideally from a production company (the brand’s other audience).
5 min: apply it to text, choose a style, and adjust refraction and dispersion.
Show how changing the layer order changes what the glass refracts.
PDF or documentation page covering every Effect Controls group.
Discord or forum link.
Support email or help desk, with response time.
Decide on the fields below. On the finished page, this becomes a purchase card with buttons to buy and download the trial.
Text, a Shape Layer, footage with alpha, or a masked layer: the silhouette comes from the alpha.
No. Glassy runs on Windows x64 with DirectX 12.