Welcome back to our series on free After Effects resources from across the web. If you missed the earlier posts, we covered Camera Crew by Motion Ape and DUIK Ángela, both well worth a look.

This time we're keeping it simple, with a small toolkit that a lot of you have probably already used without thinking about it. Motion Tools Classic is one of those tools that just quietly speeds up the boring parts of every animation.

Meet Motion Tools Classic

Motion Tools Classic, from the team at Motion Design School, is the original free version of Motion Tools, the everyday animation toolkit that's been trusted by motion designers since 2017. In a world of heavy, do-everything plugins, this one goes the other way on purpose. It's a small, focused set of the tools you actually reach for every day, with nothing extra to get in the way.

And it's completely free.

What you can do with it

Motion Tools Classic keeps things tight and practical:

• Easing – apply and adjust easing with clean, simple controls. No digging through the graph editor for the basics.
• Anchor point – reposition the anchor point of a layer or shape group with pixel-perfect precision in one click.
• Bounce and elastic presets – the original elastic and bounce presets that professionals have leaned on for years, because they just work.

That's the whole idea. It does a handful of things well and gets out of your way.

Watch the walkthrough: Motion Tools tutorial on YouTube

A quick heads-up: Classic is intentionally minimal. If you later find yourself wanting customizable panel layouts, an expressions library, and a much larger set of scripts, that's the paid Motion Tools Pro. But for a lot of us, Classic covers the daily essentials and never needs an upgrade.

While you're there, take a look at Motion Design School's other scripts and tools too. There's some quality work across the catalog.

Already using Motion Tools Classic? Drop a comment with the tool you reach for most, or a workflow tip for the rest of the community. And if you're installing it for the first time this week, let us know how it fits into your setup.

If it becomes part of your daily workflow, Motion Design School's Pro version and their courses are worth a look. That's what keeps free tools like this coming.