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Creating loopable abstract backgrounds with Cell Pattern

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Creating loopable abstract backgrounds with Cell Pattern

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- At first glance you might think that the Cell Pattern generator might be something a little too abstract to use on a regular basis. Well, I have to say that this is an effect that I do use quite often. You can use it to create both abstract and rather geometric organized patterns alike. Let me show you what I'm talking about. So if we look in our project you'll see I have two compositions in the Project panel. 01 Loopable and 02 Water. Don't panic if you're not seeing anything in Loopable, it's empty. Let's start by double-clicking 02 Water, and you'll see I have a graphic build here that has this vector style water element. And basically what we wanna use is the Cell Pattern effect to add a glowing highlight that will kind of wave back and forth across this graphic to give it a little bit more depth and interest. So to do that let's go back to our Loopable composition and create a new Solid. I'm gonna go up under Layer, and choose New Solid. And let's click the button to make sure…

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