8-Bit Animation Effect - After Effects Tutorial

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 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.
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