From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 04 Layer Control
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Brainstorming - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 04 Layer Control
Brainstorming
- [Narrator] When you're unfamiliar with the range of possibilities a given effect might offer, or if you're just plain stuck for ideas, After Effects offers a tool called Brainstorm, which you might find useful. If you had the extra side files that came with this project, open up Brainstorm sidebar, and the project Brainstorm Sidebar.aep. If you have our book After Effects Apprentice instead, look at the end of lesson 10, paint and puppet. I'll open the project and here I have some text. It is, frankly, a bit too clean. I would like to weather this or age it or just give it some more character. So I'm going to select my text layer and look underneath effect. Oh let's see what I want to do. Stylize kind of makes sense. Brushstrokes, burn, hmm. Roughen the edges sounds like something that give me this weathering look that I'm going for. So I apply it and I go, well frankly that's not too exciting. I was hoping for something a bit more. You can either start playing around with the…
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