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Working with block patterns - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 07 Parenting
Working with block patterns
Okay. That's one example of Fractal Noise. I am going to turn that layer off for now, go back to the start of the composition, and create a brand new solid to create a different Fractal Noise effect. So I am going to call this fractal noise blocky. It's the size of my composition. And just to keep things clear I am going to change the name of my first example to soft and change the name of my composition to something more generic, like examples. Selected my blocky layer and I will apply Effect > Fractal Noise again. This time I will try out different settings for Fractal Type and Noise Type. You may remember when we played around with Noise Type there was one called Block and this is a great head start for that very geometric square-base pattern we saw earlier. Now that I have got that basic noise type, I can try different fractal types to see what sort of contrast do they give me. Basic gives me some pretty sharp contrast here. Max gives me something that's just very, very plain…
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