5 Best Ways to Use Noise Creatively in After Effects

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In this Adobe After Effects tutorial, I'll demonstrate 5 of the most interesting ways to use noise and grain inside your motion design projects.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:41 Film Grain & Variations
04:27 Surfshark VPN
05:46 Remove Banding
08:48 Compositing
10:43 Adding Texture
12:06 Grain Shading Alternative

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►Music:
Massive thanks to madmomentsgo for providing that amazing music for my intro!

[BenMarriott]

Ok, so the final banding example got completely destroyed by the youtube compression. The technique will still work to reduce banding, especially if the final fine doesn't go under such heavy compression. But as it turns out it can't work miracles. I flew too close to the sun using such a subtle example.

[joantoons]

Yo ive been tackling after effects and for school and i swear every time im thinking "i need to figure out how to do x" youre here with a vid. Thanks dude youre helping me get a degree

[kittypleasance]

The overlay tip was mind blowing omg, I've always just used overlays randomly and by eye without understanding exactly how it affects footage

[kubamatuszczak]

I love me some noise Ben, always there to learn new stuff!

[BrianQuinal]

This is very helpful for a Noise effect lover like me!

[BAHOd]

10:16
Match Grain almost never works out of the box. In order to make grain similar to one on the footage with Match Grain, you should look in every channel one by one and tweak every channel individually. Match Grain has parameters like intensity and size for red, green and blue channels, as well as even settings for shadows, highlights and midtones. It is heavy to render and pretty time-consuming to tweak it just right for every other video, but it is a must-have for compositing. I use it all the time when I do vfx for movies and ads.

[shawngreco]

Hot damn I’m blown away by how proficient you are in after effects and how well you relate information. Looking forward to watching more of your videos!! Subscribed for sure!

[juandaleas]

That super secret grain effect was incredible! Mind blown as always!

[williamvaneerde]

I love using grain but ive never considered there were so many options in using it, awesome tutorial

[Amr_Seif]

I wish i can hit like button million times for the banding example

[ringo]

proc to the frog staying steadily while ben explaining the tutorial through out the video

[jamesbali]

Succinct, Informative, funny and beautiful as always Ben. Thank you so much and Keep it Up!

[chaardewar]

This is amazing ben ... Lovely as always.

[moaukanae]

Awesome, thank you! I was messing around with premiere bro because I didn't know about the noise filter. Ended up with a grayed out image and a 5gb file for a 5 min video.. You're a lifesaver

[ErichuEdits]

Wow I didnt know this method, awesome work! Keep it up brother💝

[EndicLive]

Mate, your Channel is a life saver, im a new user to AE, idk what i would do without your tutorials

[gastonsitio]

You're too good. Thanks for sharing your knowledge for free

[B]

really noice noise I love it
thank you Ben

[reph_]

really needed this right now thank you ben

[JWolde]

Thanks! I like the grain shading technique.