FREE Pixel Dither Effect | NO PLUGINS | After Effects Tutorial

This is an update on an old tutorial I made a year ago. Finally a REAL AND FREE PIXEL DITHER EFFECT!

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In this tutorial I'm going to show you how you can create this 8-Bit dithering effect in After Effects without any plugins. You will learn how to use the mosaic effect, CC Repetile, Posterize, Slider Control and many Expressions.

[samhutch]

This might be literally the best tutorial I've ever watched. Told me exactly how to do something, but it isn't too overly-specific or obtuse for me to understand and modify for my own use.

I wound up spinning the dither pattern layer with the Rotation property to give my graphic some extra digital grunginess.
Other thing I did was for a smoke cloud gif I needed it to be more transparent. I set up the dithering comp and used it as a matte for my smoke. Then I did a luma key effect (since the squares are all just shades of grey it works really well) and bam, instant "fake" transparency.

[DevTheFox]

i love how all of your tutorials are straight to the point, and are actually useful, thanks a lot for making those !

[ijatskuy]

Best tutorial channel ever. Quick, and straight to the point. Thanks man we need more people like you.

[gitgudsec]

Holy effballz how you figured all this out is just so beyond me - you have been blessed with a special brain sir.

[TheLunablackheart]

the best dithering tutorial. thank you so much.

[jeffiot]

Heyo! This tutorial is great, but this doesn't seem to work anymore. when pickwhipping the height/width to the slider it gives the error "undefined value used in expression". Any ideas on how to fix that?

[teabagNBG]

OKAYYYY... i learned the basics of after effects a month ago... this is a whole bunch of new stuff lol but its amazing what u can do with aftereffects

[NoelLeeman]

The most to the point AE tut iv ever seen. Can you also do a cooking show and everything else in my life thankyou. Other youtubers take note :)

[ElliottK]

Thanks for the tut! Can you give more details about why AE's internal engine doesn't work? Even in AME, I'm having a different look than my preview :(

[martinlofqvist]

Brilliant! Very clever and elegant way to create this

[arjunrsrivatsa]

clear. straightforward. to the point. wonderful tutorial. thank you!!!

[Archeia]

Thank you! I wanted to do this effect!!

[oneofakind]

keep it up man. very informative and straight to the point. (y)

[Jellifulbellies]

Awesome stuff!! thank you for the tutorial

[paulplane]

any idea why the effect looks completely different in the render? Less detail. I tried lossless, ProRes, etc. Thanks

[fedor]

He baaack!!! 😍 Finally, man i hope u make more tutorials! they are so great! u do stuff that isnt seen so often in the ae community and at the same time really high quality! absolutaley love it.👌 Grüße

[-ylc]

you are amazing plz keep doing thesse videos

[hmanasdasdda]

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[eltimefilm]

That's effect its soo cool! Thanks uwu

[sweaty_stewart]

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