8-Bit Animation Effect - After Effects Tutorial
Channel: Creation Effects
Date: 2019-11-12

This quick After Effects tutorial shows how to convert your footage to an 8-bit animation, like a retro arcade or video game. This pixel art effect and other art effects are available at https://creationeffects.com/creation-art-effects.
8 bit animation refer to the simple, pixelated graphics seen in early video games of the 80s and 90s. You can apply this 8-bit effect to footage or animations in After Effects using this tutorial. The "Creation Art Effects" template for After Effects includes an improved version of this 8-bit effect, as well as about 40 other effects for your footage, so that you can convert your video to animated artwork in just about any medium, like pencil sketch, charcoal, oil paint, watercolors, claymation, paper cutouts, halftone, fabric, pastels, colored pencils, and many more. 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.

Watch the Creation ArtEffects Demo video here: https://youtu.be/vGIEUcYOgn8

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.

Template Features
56 authentic-looking art effects for your footage, in 25 unique mediums
HD and 4K versions included
Easy-to-use controls for customizing detail level, size 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
Includes 3D Flip Book Effect and Ink Bleeds & Blots templates ($68 value)