After Effects Watercolour Element

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This is an After Effects Tutorial to make a Watercolour material. Using this effect with track matte as a mask to create an organic animation.

1. Make a watercolor texture in photoshop and save it as a png

Watercolour_material

2. Open AE, put watercolor texture inside

put in the AE

3. Create a solid layer

Solid layer

4. Go to “Effects & Presets” ->Generate — Circle -> Radius, Opacity -> color, Radius(minR, Max R) on the keyframe

Circle

Radius_min

Radius_Max

5. “Effects & Presets” ->Distort - Turbulent Displace

Turbulent Displace

Turbulent Displace_effect

5.1 Size and Amount-> make the shape more organic

Amount

6. “Effects & Presets” ->Roughen Edges ->make the shape more organic

Roughen Edges

6.1 Border->Edge Sharpness->Fractal influence->Scale

Border

Edge Sharpness

Scale

7. Put Watercolour in the composition

7.1 Select Track Matte as “Alpha Matte”(Reveal)” which is the layer in which we set up the effects.

7.1 After that

7.2 Move Timeline Window

7.3 Go to Circle->Graph->Graphic Editor->Change the speed

Hope you enjoy it. If you have any questions, leave a message below.