You’ve seen it before. Turn on a screen, and you’re bound to come across mixed media animation—whether it’s in commercials, music videos, title sequences, or social media content. The combination of hand-drawn markings, paint strokes, paper cutouts, and other physical elements layered over live-action footage is everywhere. And for good reason. It grabs attention, adds personality, and makes any video feel more dynamic.
Now, you can create that same expressive, handcrafted aesthetic with ease in Adobe After Effects. Introducing Mixed Media Effect, the latest After Effects template from Creation Effects, designed to transform your footage into a high-energy, animated scrapbook collage—all by simply copying and pasting elements. With over 900 customizable elements to choose from, you can composite textures, custom paint strokes, paper scraps, animated text, and hand-drawn doodles over your footage to create a completely unique look for any project.
Most tutorials on creating mixed media animation, like this excellent video by noonglow on YouTube, cover the traditional method: exporting stills from your footage, printing them on paper, drawing, marking, or adding elements to them, photographing or scanning them back into the computer, and editing them all together. I admire the technique and authenticity, and for artists, this may indeed be the best way to go. But for professional editors and motion designers working on a deadline, the traditional method is far from practical.
The Mixed Media Effect template streamlines the entire process inside After Effects, with a copy-and-paste, drag-and-drop workflow. The template is designed to save time, with well organized effects, and simple controls for customizing their behavior and appearance. The effects give you all the same creative choices as the traditional method and more, including...
Transform Your Footage — Instantly add texture overlays, color grading, and stylized, artistic effects to your footage in a variety of mediums such as pencil sketch, paper collage, watercolor painting, and newspaper print.
Animated Textures — Includes 119 real-world textures made from paper, fabric, paint, metal, and hand-drawn elements. These textures evolve organically, so no two frame are the same.
Physical Materials — Overlay 168 real-world elements over your footage, such as magazine clippings, hand-drawn doodles, paper hearts, and custom-drawn shapes filled in with materials like fabric, foil, and clay.
Draw, Paint, and Scratch — Using paths drawn with the Pen tool, you can draw or paint on your footage just like you would on a paper printout. Choose from mediums like chalk, pencil, or brushstroke, and customize the colors and thickness with the controls. Composite one of the 67 animated doodles to quickly convey an emotion or idea.
Text & Titles — Choose from handwritten pencil text, magazine font cutouts, and stylized Text layers, all of which are animated, and change on every frame for an organic, stop-motion feel.
Want to see it in action? Watch this tutorial on how to create a mixed media animation in After Effects!
The Mixed Media Effect for Adobe After Effects is available for $99 at CreationEffects.com. It's compatible with Adobe After Effects v.24 and all later versions, no plugins required.
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