Textures in After Effects | Looping backgrounds and overlays tutorial

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Create looping texture animations of your own. I show my simple method for making these textures overlay and background textures and my methods to get the most use out of them. Learn to add texture and grit to add life your own animation and motion design videos. This tutorial is suitable for beginners - intermediate users. Please leave a comment if you'd like me to explain anything I skimmed over.
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[@CephasCastle]

Hey Ben, on the paper texture, did you add a grain texture? If so, was it your grain brush or dissolve? It looks really cool, and I'm having trouble replicating it.

[@BenMarriott]

There a repeating grain brush in the shading on the ufo, nothing on the actual paper texture. You can download the grain brush for photoshop here: bit.ly/2Ez72WO Hope that helps! :) Please let me know if I misinterpreted your question. :D Thanks for watching! :D

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[@bnphoto]

Ben, I must have seen thousands upon thousands of tutorials on youtube over the last 20something years - this one, with the nice music in the background, you, casually explaining stuff, and the graphics that are so nice to look at must be one of the nicest and most chilles tutrials I've seen in my life. Hats off. Well done.

[@Wesleydssantos]

This tip of recording a keyframe before the final keyframe and erasing the final keyframe before using the LoopOut expression saved me a lot of headaches. Thank you very much, Ben.

[@fonsecxv]

ben i'm so obsessed with your channel!! especially the way you actually want to share your knowledge with us, so many people don't even think about that anymore thank you so much!!!

[@chippsanders9614]

Congratulations. I have temporarily replaced binging the Office on a loop with binging your tutorials on said loop. You are an incredible teacher! You demystify so many aspects of motion graphics and the like. A sincere thank you!

[@dman0331gmodgames]

Hey Ben I really appreciate your videos they are the perfect intermediate level 2d mograph tutorials that don’t baby you along as if you’ve never used after effects before

[@BenMarriott]

Thanks so much! I really appreciate it. Haha I got tried of learning how to make a new comp at the beginning of every tutorial I saw

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I used to reply to every comment but lately there's just way too many comments :)

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your videos made animation a much less daunting kind of art for me :’) I’ve been practicing for over 2 weeks with your help!

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Thanks so much! That's so awesome of you to say and makes me so happy to read. I'd love to see what you've made :D

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I've followed loads of AE tuts, learned loads of skills, but yours are the greatest mate. Keep it up, million subs before long...

[@BenMarriott]

Haha thank you so much for the encouraging and generous feedback, I really appreciate it :)

[@damianfarrell5433]

That Phil effect at 7:35 is mind-blowing. Great tip !!!

[@ericburnett8163]

Just found this tutorial and it's great! I love using real textures in mograph. I did want to share that I have used fractal noise and a luma key to Generate some nice looping grainy BGs! Mega high contrast and keying out darker with a ~255 threshold is the key and then animating/looping the evolution seed gets that jumpy grain. Lots of control and easily reusable over anything. Thanks for the great content!

[@BenMarriott]

Thanks so much for the support Eric, I love your method! Thanks for sharing :)

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[@BenMarriott]

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[@luffwoto]

To anyone that's having issues where you get a missing frame in your animated texture after you've done property > LoopOut > Cycle - you need to make sure your paper texture comp length matches the frames per second of the main comp. For example my paper texture comp was 20 frames long, but my main comp settings showed 25 frames per second - so I was getting blank missing frames when I looped the paper texture comp. I changed the paper texture comp length to 25 frames long in its comp settings, duplicated the paper texture to fit the increased length in the paper comp, then went back to the main comp and did everything Ben says to do and it works without an annoying frame gap.

[@khairunamaniar]

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[@JacobCarlson]

Just in case anyone else runs into the same issue I did with looping a texture. Make sure to create the keyframe on the second to last frame of the texture comp BEFORE deleting the last keyframe. If you do it on the reverse order, you'll be stuck with a comp that just plays the first frame. Hopefully this helps someone who runs into this like I did 😊😊

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[@BenMarriott]

Thanks so much, Kevin :)

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[@BenMarriott]

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[@yaserhanif8362]

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[@BenMarriott]

Thank you so much for watching :D

[@chilltime438]

above all, you're such a good art director

[@ninaabouzeid9134]

Cool tutorial! No annoying voice or music! Awesome original animation! Ur the best!!

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[@Mrthedragonkiller]

For those who keep having to rewind RightClick Time > Time remapping Del the last keyframe Make a new keyframe one frame before it finishes Alt click the stop watch Click the circle with the arrow inside Property > Loop Out

[@bigfootsaxe3119]

At 3:20 I've tried making a seamless loop that extends past 16 frames using this method (from the video), but I run into the same problem every time. Step 1) I right-click on timeline > select time > select enable time remapping Step 2) enable new keyframe on second to last keyframe > delete last keyframe Step 3) hold alt + click on stopwatch > press expression language arrow > scroll to and select property > select Loop Out "cycle" It loops, but my problem is that the loop has one frame where it goes blank or rather skips over one frame. I swear I have I've checked over this video and my notes several times over, but I don't understand what I'm doing wrong that it's not looping nicely. EDIT - So I ran a few tests with both an 8 frame loop and 16 frame loop (both running at 25 frames per second) on a 72 frame long timeline. For some reason the 8 frame loop runs seamlessly whereas the 16 frame loop will go blank or skip every 15th frame and then restart the loop cycle every 16th cycle. Could the speed of 25 fps be screwing up my 16 frame loop cycle?

[@yojacq]

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i love you bro, ive been looking for this for SO LONG

[@aluamellat1949]

Thank you for your videos and all of your tutorials, they're amazing. Keep doing a good stuff, man!

[@BenMarriott]

Thanks so much Alua! :D I really appreciate the support

[@thealicetsai]

Hello Ben, thank you for all the useful tips for animation!! I learned a lot from your tutorials over years

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So are we just not gonna talk about how the intro zooms into a bat’s butt 0:13

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This is so much help! will be creating so much with this!

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[@lala6349]

thank you ben, man this is so good

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[@BlueForest763]

love the intro

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love your tricks! they're so helpful

[@BenMarriott]

Thank so much! Glad you found it useful :D

[@beohlai]

Wohoo! Nice one Ben!

[@BenMarriott]

Thanks so much! :D hope you like the next few coming up

[@zamantalu]

Amazing and clear tutorial ♥ your videos really helped me for uni projects

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[@BenMarriott]

Thank you! :D So glad you're enjoying the videos

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[@tiffanylabelle]

Thank you Ben, I appreciate all your help, tutorials, links and downloads, so detailed and very helpful and it's great to see a fellow Australian doing well. I'd really love a video tutorial on animating fabrics. Maybe your 10/20/30 best effects tips etc. I know there's wave warp and Turbulent displacement but can you suggest any others, which are quick and easy etc or show how you use these 2 as well. Million Thanks, Tif

[@worstever5151]

another brilliant tutorial!!

[@BenMarriott]

Thanks so much!! :D so glad you dig it. Hope you've got lots of textures coming :)

[@bigneism]

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So So good Ben. I am a fan in the process :) Bless up!

[@BenMarriott]

Thanks so much for watching! So glad you're enjoying them :D

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@@BenMarriott Yes Indeed. I wish if we can have a good utility tutorial on cameras and 3d in AE.

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your videos are so helpful! thank you so much for sharing all this amazing knowledge!

[@BenMarriott]

That's so good to hear. Thank you so much for watching, the pleasure is all mine :)

[@psychod74]

so awesome !

[@BenMarriott]

Thanks so much!! :D

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very good job man! You so cool! Keep going your work and I very love your video

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Thank you so much for the awesome support :)

[@ChaoucheMounira]

thank you Ben

[@toffph1915]

but wow that intro

[@monikasahni5602]

thank you so much for sharing this video .

[@SketchbookTimeMachine]

'Phil Effect" 🤘🏼

[@arafaatmimiko8534]

Awesome video. Really learning a lot

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Excellent :) Thank you so much for sharing all these incredible tips

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[@BenMarriott]

Haha, thank you so much for the awesome support :)

[@DustinHarrelson]

such a good video! About to do this now!

[@pwl4576]

Love this tutorial. I'm experiencing a really weird issue though - my texture is vanishing for a frame in between loops when I'm at the time re-mapping phase. Have tried everything to fix but am getting nowhere. Very frustrating.

[@mspo_]

@Múmu So I found that if you rearrange the order of the layers in the composition with the looping frames it fixes it for some reason-- no idea why but it worked for me lol!

[@Patowtow]

@@mspo_ Oh what? You're right - I was having the exact same problem and then I just swapped two of the frames and boom! Fixed. Thank you :D

[@jonpharis991]

@@mspo_ Thanks! I hate that that worked, but glad there's an answer! Haha!

[@ryanwehner9172]

The issue is that time remap automatically makes keyframes for the length of the composition which includes the non-visible end frame of a comp. Two easy solutions: Inside the texture comp, drag the last layer(s) to be one frame longer than the end of the composition. This will fix the blank frame. You can also change the last time remapping keyframe to be one frame less than it is. ie) 6 rather than 7.

[@willisaurus]

@@mspo_ Thank you!

[@somehannahperson]

OMG I laughed so hard at Phil effect hahahaha

[@andrewmorgan1553]

This channels great, learning so much - Cheers Ben!

[@AaronTharpProduction]

Just discovered your stuff and I love it! Cheers!

[@Michael-ws8pc]

Here what I've learned... From 1:40 to 4:26... Thanks heroes

[@tiagocardoso4434]

Awesome!!!

[@BenMarriott]

Thank you! I really appreciate the support :)

awesome!

[@ryandejaegherfrontendwebde5312]

This is awesome. It looks like you have the texture saved as a video for future use, what settings do you recommend for exporting the texture as a movie for future use?

[@elsaleemenna]

Thanks a lot sir!

[@martinveloche1228]

Awesome and lovely work, the textures are great! I take note of your tips for my first animation!

[@BenMarriott]

Thanks so much! :D I can't wait to see it :)

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[@BenMarriott]

I love you for watching! Thank you

[@MrQuentini]

Sick!

[@marceloromero9850]

i love it! tks :))

[@szilviasera]

Than you! Love this textured look! I live for this crumbly paper texture at the back :D how do you do it?

[@artemjamba]

Чувак, ты крутой!!! спасибо большое!!!

[@blackhole724]

Hi Ben Marriott, thank you for your effort and help, could you tell me what program do you use for screen recording please?!

[@ThomasVerleye]

For iPad Pro users: You can easily "paint" these textures on the Paper app from WeTransfer and export these as PNG ;-)

[@chrishowlett9462]

Really nice little video explainer. My only feedback is can you slow down the instructions for the beginners next time. Thanks

Hey ben would i be asking to much, If i ask for that Black painting that You made? Also great tutorial

[@BenMarriott]

haha, only because you asked nicely :) bit.ly/2Yau2DY Thank so much for watching

@@BenMarriott Thank you so much Ben! i found your channel recently and its helping me to learn some usefull advanced things!

[@BenMarriott]

@ Thanks man! Really appreciate it

[@yugantpandey3925]

Is that megamind on the texture paper at 1:18?

[@SY-hv3ky]

omg ty!

[@rckta]

dude how is that flying saucer pulling up all those chicken legs? are they being pulled off of live chickens?

[@lawrydenyer]

Hey Ben, I know this is an older video but I have a quick question. In regards to the first method where you copied the image of paper that you painted over, could you add a wiggle expression on the rotation and then posterize time so that you also get rotations without having to manually duplicate the image and rotate it every time? And if so, what parameters might you suggest? wiggle(1,180) and perhaps a posterize time of 12? Would you even need the posterize time to make it more kind of gritty and less smooth? Anyways, love your videos and they are all super helpful, I am hoping to take your class at some point!

[@vargasrodrigo4426]

Thank youuuju

[@dattran6801]

Wouldn't it be easier if you use toggle hold keyframe for this?

[@BenMarriott]

Great idea! That would certainly work too :)

[@kiarawhite3525]

Hi Ben - can I ask a super noob question? 😂 You’ve got a real nice hover effect working on your space ship - what expression do you use for a gentle hover? I’m trying to make objects float in a zero-gravity environment for a project of mine but I’m struggle to get the gentle up and down effect. I found a few expressions online but I’m not sure how to alter them to get the effect I want.

[@stevenk6922]

Just watched your video on your channel. It's really good... I hope I can make videos as good as yours one day (hopefully before my pets rocket off to Mars!)

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

Textures can help make digital art look a lot less digital.

[@elodiegarbe5098]

Hey, good video! But I have problem with the last keyframe, it's completely blank. Why? The last frame before the layer loops is all the layers inside of the precomp. I'm getting this bad hic-up in the loop. I don't know what i'm doing wrong Thanks for your ideas

[@shah8011baz]

Can you make a tutorial on Isometric motion graphics please? Thanks Ben!

[@MnMintam]

Hey Ben! I just found out about your channel and its amazing!

[@DamienBoneham]

A notebook, iPhone and Airdrop are all you need to create your own paper textures :)