Watercolor Ink Bleed in After Effects | Animation Tutorial

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Ya'll had great portfolios before me :) Now they're just blurier

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You're the wizard my friend!

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Two of my favorite people in the design world right now!! This is cool

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The Rolls-Royce of blurs and the Rolls-Royce of tutorials. Lovely stuff mate.

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I watched the PS tutorial about this a couple weeks ago and it's nice to see the community's skills and techniques being shared and implemented across the different programs and platforms! Cheers!

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Thanks so much dude! :)

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These tutorials are like watching magicians explain their tricks: at first you don't have no idea how that's possible, than you start to get it, and after watching it looks so simple that you feel dumb for not getting at first. Thanks man!

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It actually takes in depth knowledge about the subject to make it look simple.

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Snazzy as ever! Thanks for watching :D

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And yet it still amazes me how simple parametric effects can create so many different styles

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this is sick! i saw the texturelabs one and my mind was blown, thanks for translating it to ae!

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When I saw this Photoshop effect from texture labs, I tried to make something like this and it didn't work well. I think your method is better than the one I can up with :)

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Wow!! The "Find Edges" effect really makes a substantial difference. I never knew it existed or what it does.

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we need a time-lapse/speedart of you making an animation ( doesn't matter which one ) and commentating over it talking about the ups and downs while working on it !

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Ooooo, that's a great idea. I love it

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Good shout.

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This is exactly how a tutorial should be! No fluff just good information. Thank you

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Hell yeah! Last time you pumped out an effect like this I used it in 3 separate client projects! Can't wait to see who I get to do this kind of stuff for! 👀

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TextureLabs love! Clicking on the video, I was hoping it'd be something inspired by their tutorial. So glad to see the love here!

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Class work, Ben! Saw Texturelabs' vid for the PS one, great interpretation of it in AE.

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Right? I got so confused seeing this was a new video when I thought I must have seen this before.

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That find edges is AMAZING

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Ben this is just mindblowing! Thank you for sharing this tip!

[@kittfarrell]

Ben! Thank you so much for this. I saw that texture labs video last month and I was trying to do it as an animation. I went with the janky way of saving the image after each "action" and importing them as an image sequence in premiere. Your method is so much better I thank you, love your videos.

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you and Andrew Kramer are heroes of AE. Thanks a lot man

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ultra useful thanks Ben

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He is amazing, I really love you. I was making a poem about watercolors and this is perfect for my poem intro. I WILL LINK YOU IN THE POEM.

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It's videos like these that make me want to be a better and more creative animator!

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I was waiting for this tutorial since I started using Fresco! You're amazing, your techniques and easy solutions are incredible :D

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Omg this is literally so helpful! I would've never thought to do this. Thank you for the tutorial!

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Thanks for watching you legend!

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That's a pretty clever way of using the caméra Blur 👍

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I cannot wait to use this. Thanks Ben!

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Have been waiting for this tutorial 🙌🙌

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I watch your videos with the same energy as I used to watch ben10 back in the days...

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thanks for giving texture lab a shout out

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This king never fails to amaze 👀

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this is absolutely genius. Thank you so much

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S Tier Tutorial! Thanks Ben!

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Rolls-royce of blur

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I wouldn't want to blur with anything else

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Great tutorial Ben!! Excited to use this.

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That looks really cool!

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Thank you Ben ! I haven't had fun fooling around AE tweaks after watching a tutorial in a while.

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Thanks Ben, I'd definitely use it in my project!!

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You're the real MVP Ben!

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Been waiting for a selective blur tutorial, didn't realize until just now that this is it!! THANK YOU BEN!

[@bigogle]

YES M8. Thank you so much for doing this - I was blown away by the original and was just too busy to think about trying it in AE. I think I'd do the find edges slightly differently - possibly by manipulating the blur map instead of the final output. Good job 👍👍

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Oooo, that's a clever idea!

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OMG ! you're a real wizard. ✨💕 your tutorial is magnificent as always

[@jorgefernandezdebobadilla3056]

I just have to say it: You are SIMPLY and without any effects and a whole bunch of complex layers and keyframes, one the greatest comunicators, teachers of animation I have come across. I was looking to make an effect such as this for a commissioned job for a client, I opened up a few tabs on chrome to videos explaining watched a couple and discarded, got to yours, and I without knowing it was you I said: Damn this is really perfect! Looked down saw your name and logo and immediately said: OF COURSE! IT'S BEN! Actually I said it in spanis and spanished your name which made me laugh: PUES CLARO! COMO NO? MI QUERIDO BENITO! ( Which is exactly: Of course, who else!? My dear Ben) Thanx a lot man, you are doing a great Job and truly can't wait to do one of your workshops.

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Thanks so much mate, I really appreciate it. :)

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this is shockingly impressive. amazing resourcefulness!

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Definitely a useful video, your videos are always very informative. Thank you very much Dude!

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Brilliant. Love that you love TextureLabs too, Brady is a real genius with PS.

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An absolute wizard!

[@azizakhmedov]

fantastic result

[@smaddiem9492]

I absolutely love this. I've made myself a custom Stream Starting & Ending screen using it and adding some drips I recorded of ink running down paper and it looks amazing. Thank you so much for your tutorials! They teach me so much!

[@ben_grubb]

This tutorial is superb! I can see myself using this technique A LOT! Thanks so much, Ben!

[@TPToE]

That is just brilliant! I'm a huge fan of Texturelabs, but the displacement map method creates a certain amount of banding (even in 16 bit), whereas using the lens blur instead bypasses that issue entirely (albeit adding some waiting time to the processing). Liked and subscribed!

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Yeahh... New tut time ..... Excellent effect 👍☺️👍☺️

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Thanks mate :D

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Love your videos Ben! Thank you so much for sharing!

[@JaredMagers]

Love it! I just key framed the fractal noise slightly also and it added a cool little effect

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Thank you Ben i just graduated from art school and your tech helps me get paid

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awesommee!! dude thank you soo much!!! think this will help incredibly!

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We always label our layers ! :)

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Awesome Tutorial, as always!

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I'm totaly a newbie in after effects but you made this tutorial too simple so I think my work looks nice

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this is so easy and awesomeeee

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This is magical! Thanks!

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OMG I LIETRALLY SAW THIER VIDEO LIKE A FEW DAYS AGO AND I WAS LIKE I FOUND EM IM NOT TELLING ANYONE BUT YOU ENDED UP MAKING A WHOLE VIDEO 😂😭

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Damn Ben, this is such a elegant, simple solution for a GREAT looking effect! Thank you so much!

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AMAZING!!! so thanks for your share. Saludos desde Argentina!

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Awesome tutorial. Thank you!

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So good mate!

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Génie ! Merci beaucoup :)

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Thanks Ben!!

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awesome, as usual! thnx for sharing

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Wow this looks freaking awesome! Thanks Ben

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Thank you SO much

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Texturelab is great!

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Thanks so much for the resourceful video!

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Outstanding!!!

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Thank you very much!

[@TheCharnstar]

This is the stupidestly easiest thing I've ever seen. I'm embarrassed I had never thought of it before. Just brilliant!

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AMAZING!

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You literally teach me more than college.

[@StefanRingelschwandtner]

Love it.

[@zomeraktiven]

Cleaver technice! Just one thing that might make this a tiny bit better, throw a turbulent displace on top of the fractal noise to hide some of the blocky segments in the texture :)

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wow its super cool

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Great video 👍😊

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[@MapleLeafAce]

For those who are still on CS6 and not Creative Cloud, to create the blur map, making a solid with a gradient map wont work. Instead, drag out a square shape to cover the comp, and set the Fill to gradient. CS6 does not have Gradient Ramp, and the Blur layer target doesn't work quite the same in CS6 as it does in CC; CC allows you to specify to use the Effects property as the map, whereas CS6 you can only select the layer itself which ignores the effects. For Fractal Noise, create a Solid, apply the Fractal Noise effect, and then *precomp it*. Then you can set the Precomp you've just made as the target layer for the Camera Lens Blur.