Topographic Textures in Adobe After Effects
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2024
- Create topographic textures in adobe after effects. Using basic built-in effects, we'll create some contemporary looks. These striations mimic elevation maps and are totally procedural. In this video we'll look at creating the basic pattern before making variations, animating, and looking at some use cases. It's relatively short and quick, and pretty easy once you get into it.
0:00 What are we doing?
0:33 Basic Pattern
2:35 Variations
4:11 Basic Animation
4:52 Specific Topology
5:55 Examples
If you have any questions just let me know in the comments.
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I'm ready to watch 😁
Best way to enjoy a tutorial I think.
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The editing is way too good for this small view count. These videos are future proof!
Thank you so much! I've been trying out a new approach to producing these things so I'm glad it's still appealing to watch.
@@ECAbrams Definitely! I at least VERY much like it. Can't understand the view count though. I guess no one can. I am no professional in the Adobe Suite, but with your videos I can at least pretend! ;)
I saw a script recently that made this effect and thought this doesn't look that complicated to make and just seemed uninspiring. Now I see this tutorial and boom nothing but ideas. Seeing each stage as you built it up really got the gears moving. As always great video, thanks! Much more useful than an automated plugin
Dude I learn so much from your tutorials. I mean I may never really make a topographic map, but the amount of skills I learnt from you stacking effects and getting different results is out of this world! I couldn't thank you enough from all your tuts!
That is fantastic. Mission accomplished around here them :)
One of the best channels on RUclips with ae tuts actually. Wish you more views man
Even 3 years later this is still great for futuristic looking motion graphics, thanks for the great tutorial!
By far the most in detail tutorial on this that I have found, great examples, too! Impressive man
I have watched a ton of tutorials in my day. So far, yours takes the cake for the best. I wish you nothing but success and channel growth going forward!
Thanks so much 😊
Thanks for saying “fewer” and not “less”. It means a lot to me. 👌☺️
You must have caught me on an especially sharp day. Usually words just kind of fall out of my face irrespective of correctness.
Hey!! i really like these procedural tutorials! keep going! u are like a legend for us.
Awesome tutorial as always, thanks for sharing the knowledge!
Thank you for bringing this amazing tutorial to community for free. You expand my vision much more with your examples. I learned a ton of knowledge during this video. Definitely, you will get more and more viewers soon. Thanks a lot!
Glad it was helpful! I appreciate the vote of confidence. Share it around if you can because I do not advertise the channel very well.
Incredibly helpful & in depth, yet super quick! Gained a sub
ive been waiting for something like this for so long
The wait is over!!! If there are other techniques you're curious about, get at me. I'm always curious about what people want to learn around here.
This is fantastic! Thank you for sharing this.
Really great and amazing tutorial. Keep it up!
The last week's yellow intro just made me wonder how was this texture made!! But i forgot to ask you about it.
and today I thank you for sharing this! You're a great teacher. 🔥🔥🔥
lol. A few people reached out about the texture so I figured it would be a quick one to make happen. If you're ever curious about anything, always ask. It's easier for me to know what to make next that way :)
Genius! Perfect problem solving!
Thank you. This method is far faster and more lightweight than the previous method I used to use. Thank you
You're very welcome! What methods were you using before?
@@ECAbrams I was following this tutorial:
ruclips.net/video/Q3RPPWdmEHM/видео.html
I may still need to use their slider setup though
It's been a while since I needed to do something new in after effects. I mostly work with the same stuff and don't need new effects. But I was a bit bored and curious so I chcked the video. My mind is blown on how easy you made this seem. Damn this was pretty amazing to see.
Glad this was able to spark some joy :)
So many effects but so easy! Great work!
Glad you think so!
wow, you really are an after effects guru, great video and creative techniques
great tutorial!
Amazing effect!! Excellent tutorial!👍👍👍
Thanks a lot!
luv this tut
Very creative ! Thank you.
so good. thanks!
Amazing tutorial bro
your skills are crazy:)Thanks for all the great Tutorials.
Been binge watching lately
You're very welcome. Happy to hear the content is binge worthy.
@@ECAbrams it absolutely is🎉
Thank you very much. We will be forever grateful for this video. Silvia, Sara, Ornella, Elena
You're all very welcome. Glad it helps.
YES thank you
Wow. Damn good. Thanks for this.
thank you very much!!!!
Thank you, very nice tutorial :)
Glad you liked it!
Love it!
Thanks!!
Great tutorial!
An easier way to turn white to alpha I found is to use the Extract effect. I want to play around with making a wood texture with this by making the noise tall and thin.
Update: Extract works super easiliy (White Point = 220) and wood grain looks excellent (W 250, H 5000)
this nxt lvl !! luv it
I wish I really damn wish you get to a million soon 💪🏼
I appreciate that. We're a long way off but slowly getting there... maybe.
thanks! AGAIN!
No worries!
Thaaaaank youu for this❤♥
You're welcome 😊
You are the best (y) Keep Up
You gotta be kidding me !
Got to a same setup like yours by myself while working hahaha
Another trick is to use a minimax and you can get camo textures, the desert storm one ( is for work ) by using the horizontal and vertical separately. They even animate the " boxes " from the fractal blocks !
Cheers from Argentina !
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super helpful tutorial! would you be willing to release a quick walkthrough on that lo-fi map you made with venetian blinds at the end?
Love itttttt
You are so good explaining these AE trends. What type of client work do you do?
I think we would call it "corporate video" I suppose? It pays the bills and is very... regular.
YOU ARE INSANE !! OMG
All day every day :)
@@ECAbrams Whenever I want to feel that I still haven't learned yet, I'm going to your channel and watch crazy videos 😭
You make me feel disappointed 😑💔
Wow!!!
I love you.
Bro, you should create a tutorial or course where you drop all your expressions knowledge in one place to be a reference for anyone who wants to get into that world. I ignored exp. for a long time but I think it enables creating stuff that would be nearly impossible to create without them.
I've thought about it. I'm not sure the best way to deliver long form course content yet. But it's definitely in the to do pile.
Awesome techniques! love de topographic texture and effect, I've been wanting you to show how to do the last part of the tutorial, starting at minute 6, do you think you'll be able to upload a video explaining the process in the future? Thank you very much for this kind of videos and keep it up!
Which aspects of what happens after minute 6 are you uncertain about?
amazing tutorial! I'm trying to recreate what you did with having the text coming through, but it seems like the posturize is creating a lot extra shapes and lines within the text itself, any recommendations to clean that up?
I'm not totally sure I understand what is happening. You're saying the posterize effect is altering the shape of the text, is that right? if the text is just an opaque layer there should be no interaction with the layers below and no change in shapes inside it if you apply posterize on an adjustment layer above. Is that not what's going on for you?
@@ECAbrams Hmm let me rephrase. The edges of my text are creating multiple lines in the final result, as if somebody had drawn the letter and then drawn several smaller copies inside of it (think concentric circles). The more the text is blurred the more this happens, which is why I suspect the posturize is interacting with the blurry edges of the text and creating multiple levels as it goes from opaque to transparent. I can reduce the blur on the text, but it quickly becomes too sharp, and plus I need to blur at least a little bit on the adjustment layer so that it emerges out of the noise. Hope that makes sense lol, either way thanks for the response and advice.
for some reason background color started leaking from the edges I ended up scaling the layer. thanks great tut as alwayd
Very interesting, Is that like some pixel tearing perhaps?
Same. For me it was Fast Box Blur needed “Repeat Edge Pixels” to be checked and it fixed it!
@@EliazRod You save me! thanks
This is what I need ❤️
Glad to help :)
I'm kind of new to AE and I have a comp where the topographic texture slowly evolves and also moves as if it were scrolling down, is there any way to make that seamlessly loop, any help would be appreciated
We can loop the evolution of the fractal if you like. But to make the scrolling loop, you only need to have a seamless texture as your base. That can be done many ways depending on your use case. But I would look into seamless texture and offset.
My computer will probably take a thousand yeara to process thw effects, but great video thanks
I'm glad you liked it. One thing that can help is pre-rendering out elements like these if you'll be reusing them in a project. Definitely the way I kept the workflow smooth back when i was working from more restrained system specs.
Awesome tutorial! Im currently working on my first animation project and have been using many of your tutorials and others to teach myself how After Effects works! Quick question, when I apply the fast box blur, it creates almost a vingette around the edges of the base pattern comp. Does this matter, and if so, how do I remove it? P.S. I'll be posting my finished project soon so I'll give you a tag when I do!
There should be a little check box on the effect about the edge pixels. That's the one that should solve it for you.
The vignette is affecting the Layer Style - Stroke, coloring the border as well as the lines
@@ECAbrams Sweet, my workspace was getting chunky and slow so it wasnt updating, thanks!
whenever i export it form media encoder in mp4 format it shows black screen
Interesting. I'm not totally sure what would cause that. Have you found a solution to that yet?
@@ECAbrams yea i decrease the simple choker to .5
man mega props to you if i hadn't seen your comment about this, we have the same issue. dang
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I love this tutorial, is there a way to choose another map I created ?
For sure. Actually this would work for any image you place under an adjustment layer with this effects stack on it.
@@ECAbrams Okay thank you so much ^^!
Another question , should I transform my image into a noise map with photoshop first :) ? Because my image has other colors in it , thanks again !
@@raniadg5384 Well, we can do just about anything in Ae you might do in Ps, but non-destructively. Personally, I would use effect in Ae to treat the still image to taste.
@@ECAbrams Sorry for asking too many questions but I actually created a personnalized world map on illustrator and instead of the TOPO text showing up, I wanted my map to show up ? Can I do that ? I've followed your videos many times but the specific topology was a bit hard to follow
And from where the white solid 3 came ? Is it a new composition from the Basic animation part on the video ? :)
how do you know the name of the effect so you can apply it on my videos so i can pick the one i like i hope that my question is clear i need your answer plz thanks
A lot of know what effects to combine in what ways comes from experience. I've been using this app for a while so I have a lot of memory around what effects perform what functions. It comes in time as you build up more vocabulary and become conversational with the program. And it helps that the concepts and terms are fairly universal. Like posterize means posterize everywhere for example.
trying to achieve that dark beveled effect that you have when you show how to do the cut out text effect.... i cant seem to get it....
I might have used layer styles perhaps. Or maybe the bevel alpha. Do either of those help?
I need help, I am trying to export it or put the project into premiere pro using the dynamic link but it only outputs a black screen and I can't seem to fix it
What happens when you Ram preview? What happens when you use media encoder? What happens when you use the render queue?
Is there a way to make the lines smaller?
You might use a matte choker effect to each into the results of the find edges?
@@ECAbrams it worked, Thank you! I didn't expect you to reply so fast
Is it possible to create this effect on image ? Thank you.
Certainly. What would you like the final result to look like? Like the image is becoming topography?
I'm not sure what I've done wrong, but I'm having quite a bit of trouble with exporting. Each time I try, the animation doesn't show up and I'm not sure what to do :(
Can you please post your samples for people to use for free without any text or watermark on them?
Samples of what?
@@ECAbrams Samples of this Animated Topographic theme of all varieties you have.
As it is not easy for everyone to make one for them! 🙂 Hope you understand.
Can you make the text gold TOPO example a file 6:46
make damascus next
Hahahahah
That's like the wavy, undulating, zebra like steel right? Like expensive chef knives and that kind of thing? I can definitely look into it.
@@ECAbrams Yep! It's also a Call of Duty skin, that's why I laughed. I posted a COD related comment in your previous video :)
I dont know why I cant render it in h.264, it doesnt show whole work but only word with animation...
Sounds like there is something amiss with your render settings. Are you using media encorder? Render queue? What method are you using to send out the h.264?
What I'd do without you
Is that a Michael Bolton tune?
@@ECAbrams I now have a new anthem
how to infinitely loop this??
If you're using the fractal noise as the base you can set it to cycle the evolution and keyframe the cycles.
@@ECAbrams thanks a lot sir.
@@ECAbrams I'm EXTREMELY new to AE, no matter what I do I can't get a rendered video to loop seamlessly.
there are actually a way, faster way to do this, difference is that you have less control
Interesting. What's the faster method?
the lines wont render i only get the back ground 😭😭
Does it show up in the comp window when viewing at 100% and full resolution?
Would anyone be willing to help me out with this? I dont have a copy of Ae but willing to pay for your time
u sound like markiplier
I’m just here for the puns
I hope the channel is always on point and never disappoints on that point.
0 Dislikes. No wonder.
Give it time. They'll arrive soon enough ;)
Wish that you spoke little slow :(
play it at half speed. It's sunny.
am i the only one who think this tutorial is too fast to follow:(
What parts threw your for a loop? Maybe I can help.
Wow!!!