CRAZY Pattern Techniques in After Effects 

Thank you for explaining this effects so clearly. I was totally mystified by this effect. I love your tutorials.

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!

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

i've been looking for an effect similar to this for years. thank you

I love this channel, nothing better then chuckling and learning.

So excited to watch !!!

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!

Hell yeah bro! Thats just what I was looking for!!! Thank you!

Nice creative use of displacements. Gives you a lot of ideas.

This is so cool! Omg I love how it turned out!

I've always been suffering from duplicating a lot of assets, this is life changing thank you

Dude.. this is so awesome. I’ve been looking for this for ages! Thank you so much!

Insane! Thank you Nick!!

I always appreciate good informative and useful tutorials

simply brilliant! amazing and smart idea of using all that...

This is awesome man. Really clever. Thanks!

This is truly amazing!

This opens so many possibilities for creativity, so Amazing

Awesome tutorial, man!!! thanks so much

Using Mosaic to ensure the Time Dispalcement is the same within a block - brilliant Nick!

Awesome video. This is what I've been looking for. Thanks

Brilliant! Thanks that's given me all sorts of new ideas 🤔

This video was amazing man thank you so much!

Thank you so much! This effect is gonna open the new doors for me.

so cool!thanks for sharing this.

nice! great idea with the mosaic!

This tip was awsome, thanks a lot!

Learned a lot from this, thanks!

Thank you so much !!! this tutorial help me a lot !!!!!

Ooh, that effect might be pretty cool on an evolving fractal noise. Really neat!

Thank you man...this is so cool!

This is very cool! Thank you!

Brilliant! I'll have to try this 👍

This technique is very clever! Really good tutorial, so much potential! thank you

This is wild. Love it.

BRO! My brain is so happy, thanks for the AMAZING tips!

Fantastic tutorial, thank you

This is awesome!

Loving the Channel!

Awesome. Thanks!

This is amazing!

Awesome !

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)

WOW bro, this is a game changer, thanks a lot for sharing

Thank You very much!

THIS IS MAD CRAZYY

very helpful thank you

This is so amazing

Man you r doing some really cool things

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

great tutorial and tips

Bro your awesome bro , create tutorial awesome always

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.

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.

Wow, you and I have almost the same work space layout . Gotta love RIFT, it is underrated.

very useful . 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).

Thank you

I come from Jake's channel, nice Effect by the way...and good sense of humor.

Can you post more typographic tutorials? I love your works they are fantastic!

Nice tutorial. Can we get other advanced tutorials using time displacement? Thank you.

Dude you are funny. And helpful. Thank you

very nice tut

You just got a new subscriber! :-)

You had me at 'WEEEEE'!

Nice!

In a crowded social media market of motion designer educators, Nick is inventive and delightfully quirky.

so cool！

Cool!

amazing

You’re so clever, Nick

Awesome

Very cool : )-

I have seen it done with fractal as a generator for the mosaic.

Subbed ❤️

can you use time displacement to change colors instead of shape sizes?

Hot shit! Subbed!

Thank you very much! This is great! Could you share the keyboard command to bring up the effects marking menu?

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 ] )

What was being used to control the gradient in the original example at 0:26?

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!

Tops!

Cool

may I ask what font do u use for your bumper intro?

haha how do you get the ripple with time displacement? I've been looking for that type of effect

Neat.

what's that search tool that pops up that you're using?

Hi, Nick please tutorial for your intro please it looks so interesting

"It's trying to reference itself, which is illegal" hahahaha.....hilarious xD

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.

W intro

If the end result is what you're looking for you really should check out Cavalry :P

Bro can u please upload that 100x100 comp? ❤️

"I'm gonna pull my unit out" *snicker*

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?

Sicky gnar gnar

I know this will sound dumb but how do you make the X shape? I see that it is a shape layer but I can't figure out how to make it. Can you help?

Go Canada! :)

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