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Creating patterns and textures - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
Creating patterns and textures
Another thing you'll probably find yourself doing very often in After Effects is creating patterns and textures. There's actually a really cool tool for this. I'm going to right-click in this Start composition and create a New > Solid layer. And we're going to be applying an effect called Fractal Noise. And Fractal Noise completely replaces whatever is applied to it. So, go ahead and click Make Comp Size, and it doesn't matter what the color is because it's going to be completely gone once Fractal Noise is applied. So, go ahead and click OK. Then let's go over to the Effects & Presets panel over here on the right, and we'll do a search for Fractal Noise. Now if I do a search for Fractal, there is actually two different effects with the word Fractal in their title: Fractal and Fractal Noise. Fractal is not all that awesome. Fractal Noise is extremely powerful and versatile. So, that's the one we want. Go ahead and apply that to the layer. Now a lot of new users to After Effects kind of…
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A showcase of effects2m 34s
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Creating a layer for effects3m 1s
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Applying effects4m 54s
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Animating effect properties4m 29s
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Using Glow5m 34s
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Creating patterns and textures6m 57s
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Creating a fireball7m 9s
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Using the Cycore effects5m 58s
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Adding blur5m 45s
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Creating a galaxy scene from scratch8m 38s
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Distorting objects with effects4m 7s
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Creating and using lens flares4m 21s
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Creating lightning bolts4m 3s
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Viewing random variations with Brainstorm4m 39s
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