easy dissolve transitions and half tone comic book styling - after effects tutorial
let's be real, we've all tried the hard mix blending mode by accident at one point and thought "why would anyone ever need this"... BUT NOW let's explore ACTUAL use cases for the ugly duckling blending mode called Hard Mix!
We'll start by going over some color theory and talking about how colors are made up of Red, Green, and Blue values from 0-255. Then once we're all on the same page we'll talk about how the Hard Mix mode actually works to understand why it gives us such ugly results. Once we UNDERSTAND the blending mode we can actually find some really powerful uses for it.
The first of the use cases I'll go over is making really cool dissolve transitions using Turbulent Noise. They're really versatile because there are so many options you can change to fine-tune and customize every aspect of the dissolve!
After that we'll go over how you can use it to create a half-tone comic book style that again, is super customizable and powerful -- theres so much you can do with this blending mode once you understand how it works so by all means play around with it and share what cool uses you've come up with in the comments to help everyone else (and me) out!
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0:00 - intro
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after effects tutorial, adobe after effects tutorial, after effects tutorials, adobe after effects, after effects tutorial beginner, after effects hard mix, hard mix, after effects blending modes, after effects comic book effect, comic book, comic effect, halftone, halftone effect, halftone pattern, photoshop halftone tutorial, halftone after effects, dissolve effect after effects, text dissolve after effects
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After years and years of learning through video tutorials on youtube, you continue to be the most polished, thorough, entertaining, and informative one out there. Thanks a ton for these and keep up the good work.
@Austrasie2.0
3 жыл бұрын
100% agree !
The quality of this tutorial is out of this world! There's so much amazing stuff here. Awesome Job!
Easily one of the best after effects tutorial channel
Man you are the one that Adobe AE would be proud of.
Oh man, this tutorial could break down into 5 different tutorials cover different thing. you got curse by knowledge
holy shit man.... out of the 1000s of tutorials i've watched on youtube, yours are by far the most detailed, organized, & structured... you deserve so many more subs then you have!!
@AcademyOfEdits
2 жыл бұрын
Hey thanks! I’m glad you like em :)
The way you explain and visualize things makes it so easy to understand. There is so much attention to detail here and the end result really sparked a lot of new ideas for me!
@AcademyOfEdits
3 жыл бұрын
Great to hear it! :)
Are you kiddin me!? This was more informative than whole hours of tutorials I usually watch them in 1.5 speed but I literally had to slow you down to fathom the intensity. I can't say I learned but I just witnessed productively using hard mix and cell pattern to generate halftone, effect masks, layer style blending options and the very useful 'take alpha from luminance' trick
@AcademyOfEdits
2 жыл бұрын
glad to hear it! if i ever tempt someone to watch my videos at 1.5 speed then i've done something wrong haha
You are criminally underrated, the amount of work and information you put in the videos is just mind boggling, don't stop creating and people will recognize your hard work!
A++ use of jimmy, that's what it feels like problem solving these things!! THANK YOU for a wonderful explanation with killer helpful mograph work!!!
Wow. Without you, I may have never known about hard mix's true purpose and its possibilities
In depth!!! Great explanations and examples... Also Individual Effects Mask = MIND BLOWN... Ive been using Ae for years and never knew of this feature!!!!
Love your tutorials, you have a really nice style of presenting and a really nice pace to the videos! Thankyou for all of the help!
Really cool stuff! Have an algorithm bump 👍
@AcademyOfEdits
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! 👍
Tnx for the Awsome Toturial Bro 💙. Love ur Vids
Chock full of great tips, very nice
Pure gold
Great video!
Sick dude
wtfffff!!! I got so many ideas rn
The best
Such a solid video! Half of it is kinda going over my head but that is mostly due to the "programming" part of AE that I haven't mastered yet.
rly brilliant tutorials thank u for taking the time to make these perfectly clear n enjoyable as well. also how did u get ur right click and stuff to look nice like that
Damn this tutorial was absolutely perfect idk how you manage to step these tutorials every video I can’t wait for you to get millions upon millions of subs and views because no one else deserves this more than you. Can I ask you how did you learn all these things was it just playing around or did you read something in order to be able to do this?
@AcademyOfEdits
3 жыл бұрын
For the most part my tutorials are things I've picked up using AE over the years that I then spend time making more useful if I can. Either by seeing if X can be done better, coming up with examples to show why Y is really cool, or showing how you can use Z in an unexpected way. For example I've known about Hard Mix being useful in Photoshop for a while but figured it would also be just as useful in After Effects (despite not using it in AE before I started research for the tutorial!)
@nezby3945
3 жыл бұрын
@@AcademyOfEdits you’re so amazing I hope I’ll be able to figure things on my own as you do thank you for responding! Have a nice day! :D
yooo new tuto? les gooo 🔥🔥
You're right; I did used to throw up in my mouth using it
Lets GOOOOOO
Extremely helpful of a video IDK WHY you are not recognized yet! A question tho: IS there a better way to add color to our halftone I duplicated the footage and set it to multiple or either just use set matte or track matte to constrict the colors to the halftone.
Hey, I just found your channel and I need you to start making videos again. Or maybe you are on a break. That´s fine. Just want you to know that your stuff is needed. Cause it´s great.
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The split timelines trick
Came from reddit
When I make the first instance it works just fine. But when I duplicate in the projkect panel, then copy paste over the control and effect, it messes up. Like the dissolve comp has to be at a certain place for it to work, somewhere in the middle of the subcomp, not exactly where I keyframe it. It'll completely disregard my keyframes, very odd. Not sure what im doing wrong.
@BLXKMNTN
2 жыл бұрын
And then if you precomp the comp you're working on the dissolve effect completely goes away. /:
@BLXKMNTN
2 жыл бұрын
looks like if you ever precomp the dissolve comp and affected layer, then you gotta re-pickwip the slider again in order to get it working.
@AcademyOfEdits
2 жыл бұрын
@@BLXKMNTN that's odd, did you follow the step at 4:44 where we change the expression to reference the Comp's name? That should make it so we don't have to relink the slider
Hard mix used to be a joke
Paid course when ?
great explanation but you totally lost me when you added multiple instances to the slider control and gradient ramp
@AcademyOfEdits
3 жыл бұрын
If we duplicate a comp in the layer stack and then go into either version of the comp, we arrive at the same comp. BUT if we duplicate the INSTANCE of the comp from the project panel, we have a new version of that comp. So now with 2 versions of the comp we can make changes to the noise to make the dissolve look different in each comp. Hopefully that explains what I meant about new instances!