From the course: After Effects: Principles of Motion Graphics
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Generating loopable animated textures - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects: Principles of Motion Graphics
Generating loopable animated textures
- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to create a loopable, abstract, animated background natively inside of After Effects, to add a little bit more depth behind our map scene that we've got created here. So, to start, I'll create a Layer Solid. Make sure the Timeline Panel is active by clicking in the empty area here, and then go up under the Layer, New, Solid area. And then here in the Solid settings, make sure you make it the Comp Size, and you can choose whatever color you like. I'm going to leave mine set to this dark gray, and I'll change the width of this Solid to something like 50 pixels, and I'll click Okay. Now, it may look like a mistake that I've made this only 50 pixels wide, but just go along with me here. I'll select Layer One and go up under the Effect menu, and I'll generate some graphics. Specifically, we're going to generate a Cell Pattern. So, you can see it kind of looks like bubbles here.…
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