Ultimate Psychedelic Background After Effects Tutorial

A super easy After Effects tutorial on how to quickly achieve this animated psychedelic coloured background without any plugins. This tutorial is suitable for beginners.
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[@VideoGameAnimationStudy]

Oh man is this special. Thanks you beautiful person!

[@BenMarriott]

You are so welcome :)

[@nirdeshshrestha9056]

Thank you so much ben ! I am a graphic artist and I was looking onto how to achieve that psychedelic coloring and bamm you posted it !

[@BenMarriott]

You're so welcome Nirdesh! So glad it came just in time

[@sahadsipahi8590]

this is really amazing! the greatest tutorial I've ever followed at 2 am haha

[@yayhi1362]

I'm learning video creation from scratch so I can make some trippy music videos for myself. Your channel has been insanely helpful and inspiring. Thanks man, you're a legend to me.

[@Gangsterbriz]

Thursdays are my favorite day on youtube. Thanks Ben for all these wonderful tutorials

[@BenMarriott]

Thanks Byorn! that makes me so happy to read :)

[@nickharral8350]

youre in my head! ive been experimenting with this all week! the fill effect tip! game changing!

[@chaardewar]

Nice work ben.

[@BenMarriott]

Thanks Amin!

[@JosepMotion]

Amazing. I'm so grateful for this. Thanks!!

[@deluxorian]

Yasssirrrrr notification gangggg!!!!!

[@ChilsonTV]

love you ben!

[@keatedean]

Your walkthroughs are seriously so great. Your voice is pleasant, the animations are always so creative in both concept and execution. The up-late section of the tutorial comment made me laugh

[@Shawyanimation]

That's really cool! I will definitely use it. THNAK YOU

[@BaardOvergaardHansen]

Love the tutorial. Easy to follow, and I am learning a lot when making it. Thanks!

[@jjcs2917]

That's Trippy! Amazing as usual

[@grogery2250]

This is soo coool omg thankyou so much ben for the content!! Keep up the great work!

[@vitotamito]

And here I was doing this with Particular when I could have just done this! 4-Color Gradient in the background also looks neat if you wanna break up that solid color fill!

[@apoemaday]

I always learn a lot from your tutorials. Very generous of details, and always right to the point. Thanks! :)

[@worstever5151]

amazing!!! thank you

[@BenMarriott]

Thank youuuu!

[@poiso4200]

Perfect, thank you very much !!

[@HotsetwithCain]

Ben! You are the best!

[@MischiefOne]

Hell yes. Amazing video. Thank you ben. Your channel has helped me ao much

[@jeremykerner2100]

This was brilliant. Very concise and easy to follow along with. Thank you!

[@Psychoirrel]

Thank you ben. I used it in my last video 😊

[@ollie4859]

Thank you so much Ben! I learned a lot from your videos!

[@effortmax]

Amazed by your creativity. Thank you very much for sharing those with us, this is super useful !

[@ElijahCiali]

I found that using a swirly fractal noise layer as a displacement map for another fractal noise layer with Colorama made a really nice effect.

[@Cloudtyx]

LIKE ALWAYS A DOPE VIDEO AN EXCELENT TEACHER !

[@reyredvisuals666]

Thank you for tutorial!

[@ivanzakharov1121]

Keep it going! Amazing work!

[@arkhi.anastasia]

that's awesome!!! thank you)

[@leonardorosa7646]

Thats pretty good man, thanks!!

[@FlemmoTV]

Ben great video! But where is the link for the projekt file?

[@ElisaM193]

That's awesome! Love it

[@SketchBud]

I've been looking for a tutorial like this.

[@mariannarigoni5657]

amazing tutorial!

[@adaaarora]

Amazing Tutorial

[@bzvrhnii]

Wow this is so cool!

[@24kilobytes]

Thank you for this ❤️it really helped me

[@deconstructedbyrishabh]

you are the BEST!

[@larvengark5503]

loveeeeeee it .Thank you

[@MerryCato]

Nice effect, i like it!

[@catlover4397]

Thank you for tutorial.

[@yasamanafshar9345]

Thank u!!🙏❤❤❤❤

[@지혜미-h5o]

Best as always TT!!

[@alideep9656]

Thank you

[@ЕдуардЄременко-с7д]

I like it

[@BenMarriott]

Cheers my friend!

[@bobbleheadlimbs]

fantastic!!

[@kyleunderwood1862]

so helpful

[@diegodall5283]

More psychedelic trippy effects 😍😍😍😍😍🍄

[@fishyrising]

Hahaha you're the best at teaching and you're really funny

[@anastasiarable]

Thank you!!

[@memeronboard8861]

I want be youtuber like you Bro. Your Great😘

[@blursed.289]

gold

[@kordura]

that's fucking awesome

[@Wheeelie402]

I'm getting better and better at AE thanks to you, Ben! Quick question: is there a rule of thumb when determining the speed expression (time*X) or is it a whole lot of trial and error?

[@youdontknowme9068]

its trial and error, you just play with it until you find a number you like

[@alongcoh]

Up late crew reporting in! I do have 1 small question. Is this effect considered procedural or is there a way to make it procedural to apply it to other objects/text/graphics? Thanks Ben!

[@artthailand7201]

Thank you ^^

[@aminejlaidi7980]

First one to say : Thanks Ben !

[@BenMarriott]

Thanks Amine! I really appreciate you watching :D

[@Bubble798-s3v]

Is there a way to make is a twisting effect instead of the radial effect? I am still new to after effects and don't know all the crazy effects yet :)

[@ВладБ-з8л]

is it possible to learn motion graphics from youtube? im living in 3rd world country, and we dont have here schools to learn in.

[@urryou]

Hi Ben! random question is there a quicker way to open groups in layers besides click on small arrow?

[@legrainproduction2760]

any idea how to make apple keynote background light in landscape? any tuto possible?

[@Rocksteady72a]

Hey Ben, your gumroad links have been broken for a couple videos now 🥺

[@motiondude]

much better effect instead of radial blur is polar coordinates(then u also need to animate movement from top to bottom instead of scale up), with radial blur u cannot create high detail fractal and in general its a much worse solution

[@motiondude]

also u need scale wipe to create light rays to make them lose detail when spreading

[@zacharybraden6462]

Is it possible to make this a perfect loop?

[@deluxorian]

Oh wow first 😎

[@BenMarriott]

Congrats my friend! Gang Gang!

[@robbychirita]

Hey Ben, i have a question, how do you make the whole composition loop perfectly?

[@fastcarsvlog]

Before duplicating the first layer, In the turbulence displace evolution options you can switch on 'cycle evolution'. Instead of using the 'time*' expression, add a keyframe at the start at 0 revolutions and a keyframe to the end at 360°/1x (or more than 1). Shift that last keyframe one frame forward from the end of the composition so it loops without repeating the final frame.

[@icearnie6740]

Up late gang where ya at

[@serotoneeder]

After Effects is going to be more similar to Touchdesigner than ever

[@BenMarriott]

Oooo, I hadn't heard of it before. I'll check it out

[@ElijahCiali]

Isn’t touchdesigner basically Nuke for Live Events?

[@Lunehardt]

8:19 I caught that haha

[@tfataloldaccount]

i wanted to trip people the fuck out so I added hue and sat and keyframed it where it changed color threw out its playing and lowered the radical fast blur to 76 and its trippy as hell

[@ojuliosansao]

on 7:22 there is a Pink Floyd reference hahaha

[@theen8564]

when I clicked add for the blending mode nothing happened does anyone know why

[@qsera_]

A CD!!!! I am dead

[@TheFinalMB]

Step one: give your favourite camera hallucinogenic substances Step two: upload to KZbin for profit :p

[@BenMarriott]

I've been sprung!!!!

[@ramonmff5158]

8:19 I saw what you did, I'm calling the police!

[@BenMarriott]

You didn't see nothin....

[@Jed1Prod]

It's more about 8:15 ;)

[@ratzch]

nice one ;)

[@yowwn8614]

We'll I'm tripped. 🥴

[@BenMarriott]

Stay hydrated my friend!

[@yowwn8614]

@@BenMarriott This is so trippy, that KZbin compression couldn't handle the effect.

[@BharathRaj]

Discord Gang but a bit later!

[@kuzev]

Now I know how to make an animated anus :D No hate man, love your videos!

[@BenMarriott]

Haha, been eating too many skittles

[@surigarro]

Your request for a like turned on me, and I liked it unconsciously. Something is wrong with this psychedelic

[@zomeraktiven]

8:20 sets contrast to 1001. Sneeky

[@Animaskinen]

Love the tutorial, but I'm pretty sure you've never done acid.

[@ajcampbell79]

It looks very Thor Ragnarok

[@mattmeetmatt]

Garbage project file. What is layer 6? [Red Solid 1]? I thought we ALWAYS LABEL OUR LAYERS! Great tutorial though.

[@foodisfuel]

Thanks for the help!

[@zorbozog]

This is amazing!!