Use cases
Animate charts and graphs in After Effects
The job nobody wants: forty bars, each one keyed by hand, and the client changes a number. Prism builds the chart from the data, so a revision is a sentence rather than an afternoon.
What you say, and what lands
| You ask for | What appears in your timeline |
|---|---|
| "Bar chart of these six months of revenue, bars rising in sequence" | Six shape layers, real text labels, staggered scale keyframes |
| "Make the growth ease out and stagger by two frames" | The easing rewritten on every bar at once |
| "Q3 is 14, not 11" | One bar rebuilt, the rest untouched |
| "Same chart, dark background, 9:16" | A second comp, laid out for the new frame |
Everything is a native layer. Select a bar, drag its keyframe, change the fill — it is your project, not a rendered picture of one.
Why this is worth automating
| Doing it by hand | With Prism |
|---|---|
| Every bar positioned and keyed individually | Described once, built in one call |
| A data change means re-keying | Re-state the number, rebuild that bar |
| Consistent easing across 40 layers is luck | The same easing applied to all of them |
| Rescaling for another format is a rebuild | Ask for the format |
It measures before it places
Prism reads real text and shape bounds and runs flexbox layout on them, so labels sit correctly at whatever length your data actually is. There is no coordinate maths to get wrong.
Try it
- "Build a bar chart in a new 1920×1080 comp from this data, bars rising bottom-up, staggered 2 frames, ease out."
- "Add value labels above each bar in Helvetica Neue Bold, 32px."
- "Animate the axis in first, then the bars, then the labels."