How To Make Animated Textures From ANYTHING (After Effects Tutorial)

Learn how to make a texture out of anything using just your phone camera, After Effects, and what you can find around you! This technique is something I regularly use to get textures on the go, and to add a more authentic look to my animations. Download the textures I made in this video below ↓

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► CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:22 Part 1: Capturing Your Textures
0:37 What to look out for
1:08 Part 2: Processing Your Textures
2:15 Adding more control with effects
4:19 Understanding the contrast blending modes
6:07 Part 3: Animating Your Textures
8:00 Adding keyframes
10:34 Effects to help merge your animation and textures
11:11 Trick to get better glow
12:41 Tie it all together
15:19 Final examples
15:26 Outro

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Thanks for watching :)

[mapal]

Dude, so well spoken which makes it so easy to follow along. Definitely need to try animating textures like this next time!!

Also the editing and pacing of the video was so good!!

[soundzeu]

Love how your tutorials don't just tell you what to do but also make you understand why and how. Excited for the future of this channel <3!

[ErvAnimations]

This was an awesome watch, didn't think to layer the textures in that way. The end result is dope too! Keep the videos coming bro, best of luck with everything

[BeneaththeSurfaceYT]

Excellent work! Love not just the amazing educational content, but also the incredible production value!

[Jed_Herne]

Dude, thank you so much for this. I've been trying to figure out how to make these sort of flickering dot textures for literally weeks - this is exactly what I needed :). Cheers!

[alejandrovega]

Thank you for sharing this, love the tutorial, can’t wait for the next.❤

[Chaologies]

yeah! oh love it! I am learning this thing!

[tilmanndrechsel]

Great video! I watched a lot of tutorials about textures before, but the seperation into whites-midtones-blacks definitely was a new approach for me! Gonna use that in my work from now on.
I found you because of your work for simplicissimus. Keep up the good work!

[eurico_leichsenring]

Very nice explanation, can’t wait for the next one.

[OcularAMVs]

Ohhh my goodness. I’ve been wanting to know how you do what you do for years and I’m so grateful for you breaking it down so well. Thanks for this man!

[tanyapaiva]

Love your content. Keep them coming 👍🏼

[asreelx]

Bro damn where have you been all these days we need someone like that giving us something special
Thank you bro keep going 🖤💜

[Eliphosys]

Stoked to see this, thanks for sharing! You're really stretching the use of a single texture by using neutral/light/dark versions of it, love it.

[THEREDBANDIT]

this actually helped a lot for a project im working on thank you g

[reysu]

thank you so much, please make more of these!

[braydonbarrett]

Holy crap this channel is underrated and deserves WAY MORE VIEWS AND SUBS!

[tylerismyname]

This is absolutely incredible. I've always wondered about these sorts of textures but never really put the time in to figure it out. You made it so I didn't really need to, thank you so much! You explained everything so well that I was able to follow along in Fusion within Resolve instead of AE (I'm trying to learn and switch over). I can't wait to see your growth here!

As for future content, I'd love to see the behind the scenes on some of your beautiful text animations.

[johnalmighty]

Thank you so much Sky for your insights. 🍾

[JayFriedrichs]

Looking forward to learning more about animation and crap for my own videos

[Rynaylorguitar]

You do videos for Nathaniel Drew? I recognized the style within the first 30 seconds of the video! Amazing work.