absolute BANGER of a tutorial. Ive just been getting started with AE and motion design and this tutorial is helpful in so many more ways than you may have intended. Thanks bro
Pro Tip: You can also use "Repeater" If you want to use shapes to animate it. ( Click The " Add > " button on the top right of the properties [ double press "u" to see the properties ] )
Oho, hey! Way cool. I'd not thought about using time displacement on motion graphics like this. I'd been focused on high-frame-rate video from my phone.
This was great! I created a gradient controller for shape patterns based on this, by pre-comping what you did in the tutorial then linking the Gradient Ramp controls to an effect in the new comp. I know there's ways of achieving the same effect with expressions and an ocean of shape layers, but this was so much more CPU friendly (and I'm no expression wizard anyways).
Update. Spoke too soon. Although this did work to create a controller for creating gradient scale patterns, I of course can't animate it due to the base shape's scale being scaled over time and I had to time-freeze layer to create a working controller. At least it works for creating static designs quickly, but if I want to animate them it seems I'll have to use the other methods.
Ok this is a great use of time displacement but here's my query: Notice how when you play the video, other than the time-displaced variance, they all eventually progress from circles to squares? How could we get that not to happen? In other words how could we get an animation that when played behaves the way things did when you were simply moving the gradient around? I've been chipping away at this problem of trying to get "absolute" time displacement rather than "relative" for honestly years now and I'll give a prize to anyone who can crack that nut. Thanks for the great tut!
the time displacement basically plays the video back and forth thru time. So use fractal noise that’s constantly evolving instead of a static gradient. That way (the shapes in this case) won’t ever play all the way through, they will just evolve back and forth
@@motionbynick thanks for the reply, but the gradient animating will only change how much the source is delayed or advanced. The shapes will still eventually all be squares. For example if black and white are set to -1 and +1 second, and the original clip is all squares at 4 seconds, when your playhead gets past 5 seconds even the black areas will be past the "squarification" time. Im looking for a way to have them, say, transition back to circles from 6-8 seconds (without precomping and time remapping it all). Thanks again!
@@AlexEzorskyVFX Arrived at the same problem, I wanted to have more control over time and this just didn't do it for me. Not sure if this helps, but came across this th-cam.com/video/1UaZNcVobhg/w-d-xo.html For me, it solved the problem, as what I needed was a simple scale change depending on the brightness and not a complex time remapping like nick does here.
Is there something I'm missing in his "unit"? It appears that the red square is the last frame and stays that way with the gradient in place. When I try in my project, I'm having to use a time remap loopOut expression on the repetile layer, and everything continues playing around it. Tried looking for expressions to pause to see if that would work but to no avail.
came here from reddit and almost insta-subbed. you're fun to watch and also a good teacher. i'm sad because you have few videos but can't wait for you to upload more! btw could you please integrate the addon to show what buttons you press? you did that in other videos. thanks for sharing this info with us man!
Also Nick is there any specific reason you applied the Time Displacement effect to an adjustment layer instead of directy applying it to the Pattern layer itself?
Thanks sooo much!!! U help me too much!! From Equato Just one Question! when i apply mosaic effect its only give me vertical blocks and not horizontal, any suggestion?
@@steveloudon7491 i'm not sure if i understood your question correctly, but i think it's 2 lines (strokes no fill ) in a plus shape then he rotated it, using strokes make it easier to control its thickness
@@abuhamzaalsafadi I thought that at first but if you notice in the source on the timeline there are three shape layers so that X must be one single shape layer. Then I just now figured it out. Use a Star shape and reduce the inner radius to 0 and you end up with an X. Thanks for the quick reply.
The idea of using the footage as a source is brilliant. The key to make the pattern look incredible here is the Mosaic effect though, thanks for sharing this Nick!
omg, just saw your promo for the course.. you are hilarious!! this is the best way to learn - when you don't take yourself too seriously and it's just fun. definitely buying your course. thanks man!
Anyone knows how to just use Time Displacement to reverse your animation? [say you animated a text reveal- now use Time Displacement to make the text go back in reverse...
Hey man. Might be a total dickhead noob question.. but.. let's say I wanna use a layer for the first second of a scene(?) and then use the same one again later.. do I need to duplicate it? would i have to modulate the opacity in order to do that? I have like 5 elements so far in 14 seconds but it spans across 26 layers.. and it getting super messy. Hope to hear back. Gunna keep grindin
In a crowded social media market of motion designer educators, Nick is inventive and delightfully quirky.
Using Mosaic to ensure the Time Dispalcement is the same within a block - brilliant Nick!
This technique is very clever! Really good tutorial, so much potential! thank you
i've been looking for an effect similar to this for years. thank you
Thank you for explaining this effects so clearly. I was totally mystified by this effect. I love your tutorials.
So so good stuff! Thx
This opens so many possibilities for creativity, so Amazing
Wow, you and I have almost the same work space layout .
Gotta love RIFT, it is underrated.
absolute BANGER of a tutorial. Ive just been getting started with AE and motion design and this tutorial is helpful in so many more ways than you may have intended. Thanks bro
Hell yeah bro! Thats just what I was looking for!!!
Thank you!
This is so cool! Omg I love how it turned out!
Pro Tip: You can also use "Repeater" If you want to use shapes to animate it. ( Click The " Add > " button on the top right of the properties [ double press "u" to see the properties ] )
Nice, thanks
Do a tutorial about it
Insane! Thank you Nick!!
Oho, hey! Way cool. I'd not thought about using time displacement on motion graphics like this. I'd been focused on high-frame-rate video from my phone.
This video was amazing man thank you so much!
Thank you so much! This effect is gonna open the new doors for me.
Thank you so much for this tutorial. It couldn’t of come at a better time 🙏🏽💯
Always on point and helpful. Thank you so much.
Glad to hear it! Thanks for watching.
How did you make the X shape. It's a shape layer but I can't figure out how to do it. Thanks
You had me at 'WEEEEE'!
So excited to watch !!!
Learned a lot from this, thanks!
This was great!
I created a gradient controller for shape patterns based on this, by pre-comping what you did in the tutorial then linking the Gradient Ramp controls to an effect in the new comp.
I know there's ways of achieving the same effect with expressions and an ocean of shape layers, but this was so much more CPU friendly (and I'm no expression wizard anyways).
Update.
Spoke too soon. Although this did work to create a controller for creating gradient scale patterns, I of course can't animate it due to the base shape's scale being scaled over time and I had to time-freeze layer to create a working controller.
At least it works for creating static designs quickly, but if I want to animate them it seems I'll have to use the other methods.
simply brilliant! amazing and smart idea of using all that...
I'm so glad I found your channel. Thank you for everything you're doing 🔺⭕️ 🟥 ❤️ (if you use your imagination that's an animated heart)
This is very cool! Thank you!
This is awesome man. Really clever. Thanks!
This is amazing!
Nice tutorial. Can we get other advanced tutorials using time displacement? Thank you.
If the end result is what you're looking for you really should check out Cavalry :P
Can you post more typographic tutorials? I love your works they are fantastic!
This is awesome!!!
You just got a new subscriber! :-)
Awesome !
Ok this is a great use of time displacement but here's my query: Notice how when you play the video, other than the time-displaced variance, they all eventually progress from circles to squares? How could we get that not to happen? In other words how could we get an animation that when played behaves the way things did when you were simply moving the gradient around? I've been chipping away at this problem of trying to get "absolute" time displacement rather than "relative" for honestly years now and I'll give a prize to anyone who can crack that nut. Thanks for the great tut!
the time displacement basically plays the video back and forth thru time. So use fractal noise that’s constantly evolving instead of a static gradient. That way (the shapes in this case) won’t ever play all the way through, they will just evolve back and forth
@@motionbynick thanks for the reply, but the gradient animating will only change how much the source is delayed or advanced. The shapes will still eventually all be squares. For example if black and white are set to -1 and +1 second, and the original clip is all squares at 4 seconds, when your playhead gets past 5 seconds even the black areas will be past the "squarification" time. Im looking for a way to have them, say, transition back to circles from 6-8 seconds (without precomping and time remapping it all). Thanks again!
@@AlexEzorskyVFX Arrived at the same problem, I wanted to have more control over time and this just didn't do it for me.
Not sure if this helps, but came across this th-cam.com/video/1UaZNcVobhg/w-d-xo.html For me, it solved the problem, as what I needed was a simple scale change depending on the brightness and not a complex time remapping like nick does here.
@@AlexEzorskyVFX dude. I'm stuck exactly at this point. Did you eventually find a solution?
Thank you
"It's trying to reference itself, which is illegal" hahahaha.....hilarious xD
very helpful thank you
Awesome. Thanks!
Is there something I'm missing in his "unit"? It appears that the red square is the last frame and stays that way with the gradient in place. When I try in my project, I'm having to use a time remap loopOut expression on the repetile layer, and everything continues playing around it. Tried looking for expressions to pause to see if that would work but to no avail.
came here from reddit and almost insta-subbed. you're fun to watch and also a good teacher. i'm sad because you have few videos but can't wait for you to upload more! btw could you please integrate the addon to show what buttons you press? you did that in other videos. thanks for sharing this info with us man!
I started this channel not too long ago. Got a lot more videos planned! And I'm looking for a more consistent keyboard overlay thingy!!
Do you know how he made the X shape? Thanks
What was being used to control the gradient in the original example at 0:26?
Bro can u please upload that 100x100 comp? ❤️
Hi, Nick please tutorial for your intro please it looks so interesting
what's that search tool that pops up that you're using?
Subbed ❤️
Also Nick is there any specific reason you applied the Time Displacement effect to an adjustment layer instead of directy applying it to the Pattern layer itself?
i just like using adjustment layers for more flexibility
Awesome
may I ask what font do u use for your bumper intro?
Hot shit! Subbed!
Cool
Thanks sooo much!!! U help me too much!! From Equato
Just one Question! when i apply mosaic effect its only give me vertical blocks and not horizontal, any suggestion?
That's weird. What version of After Effects are you on?
@@motionbynick On just regular video it works! but when i take solid layer apply to it Gradient Ramp and then apply mosaic like you did it doesn't..
@@yofi2614 try to move the start and end of ramp.. it will work ;)
Tops!
Great aesthetics in your work, super helpful tutorial and an entertaining disposition
Go Canada! :)
[I am Canadian too :) ]
300th LIKE ^^ Could you say, What name of that 1:32 float window script?
Fx Console by Video Copilot
@@motionbynick Cool! Thank you a lot^^
12 years of using after effects and this is the first time i see a use of this effect, how blind i were
Do you know how he made the X shape. It's a shape layer but I can't figure how to do that.
@@steveloudon7491 i'm not sure if i understood your question correctly, but i think it's 2 lines (strokes no fill ) in a plus shape then he rotated it, using strokes make it easier to control its thickness
@@abuhamzaalsafadi I thought that at first but if you notice in the source on the timeline there are three shape layers so that X must be one single shape layer. Then I just now figured it out. Use a Star shape and reduce the inner radius to 0 and you end up with an X. Thanks for the quick reply.
@@steveloudon7491 you're welcome but actually you can have several shapes in one shape layer
@@abuhamzaalsafadi Oh, yes now I see. I'll try it that way too. Thanks.
W intro
I'm a huge fan of this channel man!!! I can't believe the timing of this, I have been trying to do something like this for my project :D
happy to help! 🕺🏻
how do you make the X shape. I'm stumped. Thanks
haha how do you get the ripple with time displacement? I've been looking for that type of effect
The idea of using the footage as a source is brilliant. The key to make the pattern look incredible here is the Mosaic effect though, thanks for sharing this Nick!
Is there anyway to make the purely brightness driven rather than time driven as it si right now? Because it stops working eventually
Really cool! Possibilities are endless
I tried and accidentally bring my grandpa back.
results not gaurenteed
Bro your awesome bro , create tutorial awesome always
omg, just saw your promo for the course.. you are hilarious!! this is the best way to learn - when you don't take yourself too seriously and it's just fun. definitely buying your course. thanks man!
Very cool : )-
"I'm gonna pull my unit out" *snicker*
nice! great idea with the mosaic!
You’re so clever, Nick
thank you! 🤘
I have seen it done with fractal as a generator for the mosaic.
Anyone knows how to just use Time Displacement to reverse your animation? [say you animated a text reveal- now use Time Displacement to make the text go back in reverse...
I've always been suffering from duplicating a lot of assets, this is life changing thank you
This is truly amazing!
Hey man. Might be a total dickhead noob question.. but.. let's say I wanna use a layer for the first second of a scene(?) and then use the same one again later.. do I need to duplicate it? would i have to modulate the opacity in order to do that? I have like 5 elements so far in 14 seconds but it spans across 26 layers.. and it getting super messy.
Hope to hear back. Gunna keep grindin
Great tutorial, but points deducted for using the word "Spazzy". No need for it at all.
I come from Jake's channel, nice Effect by the way...and good sense of humor.
Awesome video. This is what I've been looking for. Thanks
Brilliant! Thanks that's given me all sorts of new ideas 🤔
2K24 and this tuto still GOLD thanks a lot
Thank you so much !!! this tutorial help me a lot !!!!!
BRO! My brain is so happy, thanks for the AMAZING tips!
great tutorial and tips
Dude you are funny. And helpful. Thank you
Man you r doing some really cool things
WOW bro, this is a game changer, thanks a lot for sharing
Thank You very much!
He got a lil angry when he said fortnite edit
Brilliant! I'll have to try this 👍
so cool!thanks for sharing this.
Thank you man...this is so cool!
Fantastic tutorial, thank you
Cool!
very useful . thanks
I always appreciate good informative and useful tutorials
Loving the Channel!
This tip was awsome, thanks a lot!
can you use time displacement to change colors instead of shape sizes?
This is wild. Love it.
Dude.. this is so awesome. I’ve been looking for this for ages! Thank you so much!
This is so amazing
Awesome tutorial, man!!! thanks so much
I love this channel, nothing better then chuckling and learning.