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CREATION ART EFFECTS
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Creation Art Effects - After Effects (Turn Footage into Animated Art)
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What is it?

Creation Art Effects is an all-in-one art studio for Adobe After Effects. It's jam-packed with effects for turning your video footage into living, moving works of art - in almost any medium you can think of!

 

Just drop in your footage, animation, image, or text, and you'll be ready to export over 50 realistic, customizable, animated art effects – from pencil sketches to Van Gogh paintings, claymation to chalkboard, watercolors to graffiti, ink blots, legos, comic book, pastels, and many more.

Turn Your Footage into Animated Works of Art!

Creation Art Effects (for After Effects)
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Watch all art effects in action!

Watch a preview of all the art-looks included in the Creation Art Effects template

All effects are easily customized using convenient controls.

A tiger face made of sewn fabrics, made the "Textiles Effect" applied to a photo of a tiger. The Textiles Effect is part of the "Creation Art Effects" package for turning footage into animated art in Adobe After Effects.
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Features

  • 53 creative art effect presets for your footage, in 27 unique mediums

  • HD and 4K versions included

  • Easy-to-use controls for customizing detail level, size and speed of textures, realism level, shading, outlines, and more

  • Works with footage, photos, and graphics

  • Supports transparent backgrounds

  • Uses hand-drawn textures for realistic results. The included library of over 200 texture photos allows you to swap out animated elements like paper backgrounds, pencil strokes, paint splatters, and much more.

  • “Timewarp” option lets you slow down textures for a smoother animation (less flicker and jitter)

  • Optional "Stop Motion Effect" to imitate crude, hand-crafted look

  • Animated mattes, borders, and frames

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Realistically imitate almost any medium!

This template offers dozens of art effects and stylized video looks simply by dropping in your footage. The effects use real hand-drawn and hand-painted textures, which gives the effects their authentic look. These "Dynamic Textures" blend multiple high-resolution photos to make various paper, fabric, pencil strokes, paint splatters, and many other textures which are constantly changing - so no two frames are the same.

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Creation Art Effects Tutorial - How to turn your footage into art in After Effects

Shows how to convert your footage into animated artwork, revealing the template's features along the way.

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Also Works Great with Text & Images!

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The following example images show the main art effects (presets), in alphabetical order, applied to the same three images. Additional presets exist within some art effects, offering even more unique looks. Everything can be customized, including features like outlines, shading, colors, detail level, and art surface (e.g., paper, canvas, chalkboard, etc.)

ORIGINAL IMAGES

Any footage, image, animation, or text will work. For best results, use footage that is properly exposed, with good dynamic range (white whites and black blacks). Closeups and footage with less detail look best with most mediums.

8-BIT ANIMATION

8-Bit Animation refers to the pixelated graphics seen in early video games and arcade games from the 80s and 90s, but there's a lot more going on here than just pixelation. Several custom effects were borrowed from the Creation VHS Effects template to create the look of an old CRT monitor. You can choose to keep the monitor effect, or go with the "clean" version (image 3).

BUILDING BRICKS

You may know them as LEGO's, but the generic term is building bricks or building blocks. This effect imitates the stacking of different-colored bricks to form the image from your footage. It has over 20 customization controls, including brick size and color controls.

CHALK ON CHALKBOARD

This unique Chalk on Chalkboard effect draws your footage in chalk and puts it on a continuously-changing chalkboard texture. Easily invert it from coloring in dark areas to coloring in light areas. Over 20 controls allow you to customize features like the shading and outline. Use the custom matte to control where the image appears on the chalkboard.

CHARCOAL 1

This Charcoal effect converts your footage to a soft charcoal pencil drawing. With over 20 customization controls and over 20 paper textures, you can create a beautiful custom drawing tailored to your footage. This charcoal effect is also included in the Pencil Sketch Effect template.

CHARCOAL 2

This Charcoal effect presents a second option for using the dark, texture-rich charcoal medium. It works differently and looks different from the Charcoal 1 effect, but features the same customization options for the shading and outline. The pencil stroke textures can be customized as well. This charcoal effect is also included in the Pencil Sketch Effect template.

CLAYMATION

You probably wouldn't think of 2D-animation when you think of clay animation... perhaps because this was the first time it's been done! This Claymation effect simulates thin layers of different-colored clay, either stacked or arranged together to form the image from your footage. You can use the colors from your footage, or assign your own colors to the six clay texture layers. Customize features like texture, detail amount, and shadows using the 27 customization controls. The Claymation Effect is also sold separately.

COLORED PENCIL

Any pencil-drawn effect in this template can be converted to a colored pencil effect if you add the "Use Colors From Footage" effect that's included in the template. But this Colored Pencil effect was built with colored pencil in mind, and the medium translates beautifully to moving video footage. There are 27 customization controls for adjusting both the outline and fill. This colored pencil effect is also included in the Pencil Sketch Effect template.

CRAYON

Let's face it - crayon gets no respect. But for the right project, the Crayon effect could be the perfect medium. This effect includes 28 customization controls and optional stray crayon marks - like a child's messy drawing.

CRYSTAL

A dazzling and mesmerizing effect when in motion, this stylized look is one of the many creative looks for footage included in the