With the holidays right around the corner, here are a set of streamer presets to use with the 3D Grid Warp plug-in. These streamers can all be customized and animated in a variety of ways. You can change how tight or loose the ribbon is wrapped; the length and width of the ribbon; how twisty it is; and of course the colors and transparencies in the ribbon.

Most of these streamers use a single warp. One of them uses two warps so you can see how to take a fairly simple streamer and make it deliciously irregular. Also notice how these streamers make use of the Highlight feature which gives the ribbons beautiful shiny highlights when the curves of the ribbon catch the light.

This download contains a set of preset files for 3D Grid Warp. (Click here to download) Once you download and unzip, place the preset files into the Grid Warp Presets folder and restart After Effects. Then in any AE project, add a layer, apply the Grid Warp effect to it, and choose one of the Streamer presets from the Effect Presets menu.