Summer is a time for bold looks, bright colors, and fun styles. If you’re a content creator, what better way to get into that summer vibe than by creating a new look for your videos and social media content. Motion Array has thousands of fantastic templates, so to save you time, we’ve put together our top summer templates for Adobe After Effects.
Top 9 Summery AE Templates from Motion Array
Our list includes full slideshow templates, title elements, animated flourishes, and summer-themed logo indents; we’ve got everything you need to give your content the ultimate summer glow-up. Check out the full collection here to discover more summer vibe templates.
Spectrum of Soulful Strokes
The Spectrum of Soulful Strokes is a versatile set of elements with a bright and colorful summer vibe. The impressive pack includes 20 arrow animations, 20 animated shapes,10 title elements, and 5 transitions. The 4K flourishes have massive scalability, allowing you to combine multiple components to create new effects.
Energy Opener
The Energy Opener is a super fast slideshow video with a fun glitchy style. Including 21 text elements, 5 media placeholders, and 1 logo frame, the templates create the ideal summer mood-setter to introduce your longer content. With easy color control and a modular structure, this summer template is super easy to use and match to your brand.
Summer Slideshow
The Summer Slideshow template features polaroid-style photos moving swiftly across the screen with incredible zoom and pan motion. Each photo placeholder is accompanied by a title with customizable font, color, and weight. At just 35 seconds, the slideshow is ideal for displaying your best summer snaps.
Sunny Pop – Logo Reveal
Sunny Pop is a Barbie-inspired logo reveal featuring 1 title element and 1 logo placeholder. The logo review begins with a cute cartoon island featuring palm trees and a hammock before panning to the sky for the fun title design surrounded by popping heart flourishes. It is ideal for kids’ content, summer videos, or jumping on the Barbie trend.
Like, Share Subscribe Summer Stomp Intro
The Like Share Subscribe Summer Stomp Intro is a massive summer template with 27 text placeholders, 7 media placeholders, and 1 logo placeholder. The modern design features overlaid titles, images, and flourishes on a bright, blocky background. The swift animation fits all mixed media elements in just 17 seconds.
Summer Social Media Intro
The summer social media intro has a retro vibe, featuring chunky title elements and a bright grid background. The template is themed around popup-style internet windows, allowing you plenty of space for your titles, photos, and video clips, perfect for opening or closing your longer content with social media follow buttons.
3D Summer Drink Soda Commercial
The 3D Summer Drink Soda Commercial template offers two variations for orange and lime-flavored drinks. It also includes 12 text and 4 media placeholders, ideal for adding your messaging. For this template to work, you will need to install the PixMap plugin, but the end result will impress your viewers.
Fun Simple Shapes
As you may have guessed, the Fun Simple Shapes template contains a collection of shape elements with a simple and fun animation. The bright and bold shape designs are ideal for creating transitions or title animations, using in backgrounds, or adding a flourish to your media, allowing you to create a consistently eye-catching look across your summer videos.
Summer Vibes Opener
The Summer Vibes Opener is 35 seconds of bright, modern, and dynamic animation, sure to grab your audience’s attention. The bold titles slide across the media background with cool extended shadows and text boxes. The rainbow gradient design is easy to customize and creates a fantastic option for LGBT+ content.
Using After Effects Templates
Downloading your chosen template is just the first step, as you’ll now need to customize it. Fortunately, After Effects templates are designed to make customizations as easy as possible, even if this is your first time using AE.
Once you open your template file, you’ll see a bunch of folders and compositions in the project browser. Any that you can customize will be labeled EDIT. Just go through the list double-clicking on and Edit Media, or Edit Text compositions. Once the comp is open, you can adjust the text or drag your media to the Timeline.
Where there’s technology, an occasional error might occur, and templates are no exception. If you need help with your template download, check out our handy troubleshooting guide.
More Downloadable Summer Assets
Templates aren’t the only downloadable assets you can use to give your content a summer feel. Check out the other royalty-free collections available in the Motion Array library.
Stock Video
Stock footage allows you to create entire compositions without filming a single frame. Whether you’re looking for shots of exotic locations or friends sharing an ice cream, our summer collection has got you covered.
Stock photos
Photos are fantastic assets for creating a theme across your online channels, including videos, social media posts, blogs, and website headers. The summer photo collection includes stunning sunsets, holiday-style snaps, and even a dog in sunglasses.
Music
Music goes hand-in-hand with any video, and finding the perfect track has never been easier. The massive collection of summer songs and tracks can be filtered by genre, BPM, duration, mood, and instrument, so you’re sure to find what you need.
Templates are a fantastic asset to help you save time and create new looks, and our top 10 Summer After Effects templates have everything to get you started. If you’re looking for more After Effects templates, why not check out our incredible typography collection.
