RUSSIAN FONTS - Creative COW's user support and discussion forum for users of Adobe After Effects. - Adobe After Effects Forum. There are 18 simulation effects built into Adobe After Effects. These simulation effects can be used to create anything from rain to hair. All of these effects are completely customizable. When you pair them with other effects, you can take their functionality much further.

Cell Pattern And Favorites, San Francisco, California, USA ©2003 by Jim Tierney and CreativeCow.net. All rights are reserved. Article Focus: Cell Pattern is a filter that can be used to create all sorts of background animations, displacement maps, track mattes, and many other things. It uses algorithms to generate the shapes and shading you see rendered.

This allows you to create thousands of different patterns and textures. In this tutorial, Jim Tierney demonstrates a few of these as well as discusses how to create and save your own After Effects favorites. No movie ---Cell Pattern--- Cell Pattern is a filter that can be used to create all sorts of background animations, displacement maps, track mattes, and many other things. It uses algorithms to generate the shapes and shading you see rendered.

This allows you to create thousands of different patterns and textures. It's a fairly simple filter, but like many simple filters, you can combine it with other filters to create a wide range of unique effects. A few examples: We're also going to talk about Favorites in this tutorial. Cdex.

Favorites are essentially After Effect’s version of presets. You can save out filters and the keyframes associated with them. You can even save out groups of filters. It's a very powerful way of saving any cool effects you've created and re-using them in other projects or passing them along to friends or colleagues. First off, let's dive into Cell Pattern.

Open up the ‘celling_favorites.aep’ project. (Download from the green bar above.) You'll see a solid layer called ‘Cell Space’. Select this layer and apply Cell Pattern (Effect>Render>Cell Pattern).

The most important parameter in this filter is the ‘Cell Pattern’ pop-up (surprise, surprise). This lets you select the type of cell you want to use. There are about 8 different types, with some having High Quality versions (look for the HQ after the name). Flip through them to get an idea of the choices you have.

We're going to create an animated background, quickly and easily by animating a single parameter. Set the Cell Pattern pop-up to Plates HQ. This will give us some interesting polygon shaped objects. We're going to animate the edges of these polygons to create an undulating background. Which will give you this: With the Time Marker at 00:00, set a keyframe for the Evolution parameter.