8-Bit Animation Effect - After Effects Tutorial

This quick After Effects tutorial shows how to convert your footage to an 8-bit animation, like a retro arcade or video game. This pixel art effect and other art effects are available at creationeffect....
8 bit animation refer to the simple, pixelated graphics seen in early video games of the 80s and 90s. You can apply this 8-bit effect to footage or animations in After Effects using this tutorial. The "Creation Art Effects" template for After Effects includes an improved version of this 8-bit effect, as well as about 40 other effects for your footage, so that you can convert your video to animated artwork in just about any medium, like pencil sketch, charcoal, oil paint, watercolors, claymation, paper cutouts, halftone, fabric, pastels, colored pencils, and many more. Creation Art Effects is an all-in-one art studio for Adobe After Effects. It's jam-packed with effects for turning your video footage into living, moving works of art - in almost any medium you can think of!
Just drop in your footage, animation, image, or text, and you'll be ready to export over 50 realistic, customizable, animated art effects.
Watch the Creation ArtEffects Demo video here: • Creation Art Effects -...
Realistically imitate almost any medium!
This template offers dozens of art effects and stylized video looks simply by dropping in your footage. The effects use real hand-drawn and hand-painted textures, which gives the effects their authentic look. These "Dynamic Textures" blend multiple high-resolution photos to make various paper, fabric, pencil strokes, paint splatters, and many other textures which are constantly changing - so no two frames are the same.
Template Features
56 authentic-looking art effects for your footage, in 25 unique mediums
HD and 4K versions included
Easy-to-use controls for customizing detail level, size of textures, realism level, shading, outlines, and more
Works with footage, photos, and graphics
Supports transparent backgrounds
Uses hand-drawn textures for realistic results. The included library of over 200 texture photos allows you to swap out animated elements like paper backgrounds, pencil strokes, paint splatters, and much more.
“Timewarp” option lets you slow down textures for a smoother animation (less flicker and jitter!)
Optional "Stop Motion Effect" to imitate crude, hand-crafted look
Animated mattes, borders, and frames
Includes 3D Flip Book Effect and Ink Bleeds & Blots templates ($68 value)

[@rebane2001]

There's an effect called Posterize Time, it's usually a better idea to use that rather than changing the composition framerate

[@FilmLearnin]

Dang - That's a cool effect and SO easy!!

[@gavinives8760]

Loving this. I have been tasked with coming up with a band video, and the thought of turning all the musicians into 8-bit characters would be great.

[@IgorDoval]

Straight to the point, mate! Nice job!

[@G0MBEAR]

YES!! YES!! I NEED THIS EFFECT!!!!

[@alebassmusic]

That's great, just what I was looking for. A humble suggestion, if you have many animated layers in the same composition, instead of changing the frame rate you can just add a posterize time effect to the desired layer. Cheers!

[@JonathanWinbush]

That looks pretty solid I'll have to try this out!

[@tvepiccz]

Well this actually suprised me how easy it is. Thanks alot man!

[@drawtheangles2886]

Wow! So fast and so spectacular! Thank you very much!

[@uniworkhorse]

Thank you so much, this is pretty straightforward. Was wondering what small steps other than mosaic would make footage more realistically pixelated

[@creationeffects]

Mosaic is the only effect I can think of that pixelates, but you could always scale the footage way down, precompose it, then scale it back up again. It would probably be much softer/blurrier than this method.

[@firesidefire]

Awesome thank you!

[@ridabelhamri6652]

Wow, looks good, Can wait to try it 🤗. Thank you Man

[@siamakkamanabroo6075]

now i get it. I keep the link for when I need it in a project

[@amirnahavandi7759]

tnq

[@lorenzomoneta17]

thanks man

[@whbproductions2440]

Super cool super easy

[@camikun0018]

I LOVE UUUUUUUUU

[@salman_muqtadiir]

Recommend

[@chinadchannel2549]

Nice video bro... Can I ask you to help make a video tutorial, such as timelaps video on f1 visualized channel? Thanks bro

[@kepeng6823]

wow! amazing work , could you please tell me how to create the 5:13 effect of lego style？thank you

[@noelpowell4108]

Thanks. The lego effect is too complicated to show in a tutorial, but you could always purchase the template if you need the effect.

[@SexisinnamenBunzzzz]

Hi How can I pixelate just part of the body?

[@creationeffects]

There are many ways, and it depends on what you're trying to do. I suppose, just masking out what you don't want pixelated would be easiest.

[@guynamedrick4419]

Does this work with 2d animation like Cuphead or Wario land Shake it.

[@creationeffects]

It'll work on any footage you use it on, but maybe you're asking "will it look good?" In my opinion it looks best on simple animations, so yes a 2D animation would probably look best.

[@guynamedrick4419]

@@creationeffects thank you:)

[@NoPenta]

Can i just buy that overlay?

[@creationeffects]

I would if it were just an overlay, but it's actually a combination of effects that come with the Creation Art Effects template. The clip that I drag into the timeline at 4:09 is a finished rendered clip of the dancers with those effects.

[@peterwhitey4992]

That's just pixelated, not 8 bit.

[@vidademikey9790]

Uh ok champ.