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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[@ericapead4137]

@@BenMarriott Thank you so much for sharing!

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[@bartnowak8509]

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.

[@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!

[@grande1900]

I like the fact that you reply to the comments you love!

[@BenMarriott]

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

[@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

[@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 :)

[@Carmen-oc2uf]

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

[@BenMarriott]

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

[@radkookie]

I've only just discovered you. Where have you been all my life? Your tutorials are awesome. Concise. Easy to follow. Lively voice

[@BenMarriott]

Haha, thank you so much for the awesome suuport! :)

[@damianfarrell5433]

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

[@kevinjlakner]

Man, I love your tutorials, i´m learning a lot, thanks from Argentina!

[@BenMarriott]

Thanks so much, Kevin :)

[@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.

[@squareinsquare2078]

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 :)

[@yaserhanif8362]

the best channel for animation, thankyou so much!

[@BenMarriott]

Thank you so much for watching :D

[@chilltime438]

above all, you're such a good art director

[@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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Thank you sm :)

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You're my best source of inspiration! 😊👌

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

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[@BenMarriott]

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

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[@BenMarriott]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate the support

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love your tricks! they're so helpful

[@BenMarriott]

Thank so much! Glad you found it useful :D

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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 :)

[@pragyasrikanth3657]

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

[@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

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[@zamantalu]

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

[@vuhai8262]

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[@BenMarriott]

Thank you so much for the awesome support :)

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you earned my respect at 7:20

[@dilpreetsingh197]

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

[@dilpreetsingh197]

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

[@lala6349]

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[@ВладикПятак]

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[@BenMarriott]

Thank you so much, friend :)

[@artbydaelok]

Just found this channel! I really like your videos!

[@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]

you saved my life, thanks!!!!

[@jdoe27]

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

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God bless Ben Marriott!

[@worstever5151]

another brilliant tutorial!!

[@BenMarriott]

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

[@aaronjohns7794]

I love your vids dude keep it up!!

[@BenMarriott]

Thanks so much! :D I really appreciate the support

[@CreativeClayGraphics]

thank you sooooo much, your videos are sooooo epicly awesome!!!!

[@BenMarriott]

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

[@BlueForest763]

love the intro

[@monikasahni5602]

thank you so much for sharing this video .

[@andrewmorgan1553]

This channels great, learning so much - Cheers Ben!

[@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 :)

[@arafaatmimiko8534]

Awesome video. Really learning a lot

[@BenMarriott]

Thanks so much! I really appreciate the support

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You are awesome!!!!!!

[@BenMarriott]

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

[@ALEET]

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

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[@beohlai]

Wohoo! Nice one Ben!

[@BenMarriott]

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

[@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?

[@DustinHarrelson]

such a good video! About to do this now!

[@bigneism]

this is incredible

[@cochonnex7738]

So goooooood ! Thank U🙂

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

[@yojacq]

this is sick

[@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!

[@psychod74]

so awesome !

[@BenMarriott]

Thanks so much!! :D

[@ChaoucheMounira]

thank you Ben

[@Cl9udLiving]

another amazing video!

[@BenMarriott]

You're the best!

[@otdosa]

great stuff, thanks man!

[@AaronTharpProduction]

Just discovered your stuff and I love it! Cheers!

[@DiegoBet91]

The Andrew Kramer scene 🤣🤣🤣 He really is our lord and saviour.

[@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!)

[@aaronjohns7794]

Your gonna blow up soon

[@BenMarriott]

Thanks man, fingers crossed :)

[@somehannahperson]

OMG I laughed so hard at Phil effect hahahaha

[@MnMintam]

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

[@cachhomevideo1546]

Thanks for sharing

[@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?

[@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!

[@toffph1915]

but wow that intro

[@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

[@SketchbookTimeMachine]

'Phil Effect" 🤘🏼

[@MrQuentini]

Sick!

[@artemjamba]

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

[@GrandeGio95]

When you export from After Effect did you export frames or video ? Amazing channel btw !

awesome!

[@tiagocardoso4434]

Awesome!!!

[@BenMarriott]

Thank you! I really appreciate the support :)

[@szilviasera]

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

[@elsaleemenna]

Thanks a lot sir!

[@ViveHoja]

i love you so much

[@BenMarriott]

I love you for watching! Thank you

[@MamunsLife]

Amazing video Ben! I was wondering, the swatches on the bottom left...how did you organize them like that? Is there a script to do that?

[@BenMarriott]

Thank you so much! Yes, it's a script called "Labels 3." It's available on AE scripts. I might seem like overkill to save a single click. But it comes in hand a lot :)

[@MamunsLife]

@@BenMarriott I checked it out, It's a really cool script, I'm gonna have to get it. I've always wanted custom label coloring in AE!

[@blackhole724]

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

[@riptidebeats8492]

I am having a problem where when I loop my texture I get a black frame between every loop. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

[@mspo_]

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!

[@reganmcentee8285]

Try changing frame rate? Ctrl + K on PC for composition settings and frame rate

[@marceloromero9850]

i love it! tks :))

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

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

[@AnimatedLessons]

Can you do a tutorial on transitions? PLEASE

[@BenMarriott]

Yes! I've got a few transition videos in the works. One is going to be really big so that one's going to take some time. They'll be out soon though :)

[@dattran6801]

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

[@BenMarriott]

Great idea! That would certainly work too :)

[@Palomash_]

Can you do a video on how to do the UFO animation used on the video!? PLEASE

[@BenMarriott]

I'll definitely see if I can fit it into a larger tutorial. I animated the ufo with 2 position keyframes and the beam with 2 keyframes on a shape layer :)

[@dananderson8814]

Quick question, on the texture you work on around the 1 to 3 minute mark (black background with white specks), what are the fps? It's two, correct?

[@shah8011baz]

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

[@masqueradings5822]

I tried using an older scan as well, but it was a PDF file instead of JPEG. For some reason the screen effect doesn't seem to work on it. Do you recommend using only JPEG? Also I love the abduction beam. Trying to learn to replicate it.

[@dominicmcmahon4798]

Subbed you mate. Can u do a video on 2d looped motion animation but it looks on a 45 degree angle? Would be so great.

[@FabioSai]

amazing job man, whats this plugin you use to change a layer color : )

[@BenMarriott]

It's called labels and you can get it from aescripts. I thinks it's $10 - $15, it just gives another panel to change layer colours in 1 click. :)

[@FabioSai]

@@BenMarriott Nice thanks man