Create Water Ripples in After Effects 

This is genius! Such a creative use of these effects and a beautiful result :D

Brilliant! And it's a perfect example of what you can create once you understand how a handful of effects work in AE. Bravo sir.

Ok, this is brilliant. I did something similar to this for sea form using the cell effect years ago, but I've forgot EXACTLY how I did it. But this method has soooo much more control and creative freedom to it. Brilliantly done.

Oh man I've been looking for something like this for so long

.... you know I have been trying (and failing) to achieve almost this exact thing recently, and you've just gone and simplified all my efforts... I don't know whether to cry or say thank you. I think it would be healthier to just say THANK YOU! This is so incredibly helpful and bless you for sharing! I would never have thought of this approach! Later is better than never I guess.

Very strong use of After Effects well done. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

This is amazing! Love how you combine all the effects and especially the use of the displacement map and the echo effect;)

That's incredible! I cant wait for a breakdown on how do u stylize your animations

im just sitting here mouth wide open becuz of how genius this method is . this is amazing

I think you just saved my thesis!! Im doing a ruff 2D animation, and there is a scene where I need this kind of animation about water!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH! love to u!!!

This is brillirant! and I like how you explain the functions and purposes of each additional layer of effect

Omg this was awesome Stephen. What a useful tutorial. Want to see more such unique ones 🤩🤩🤩🤩

This tutorial is so amazing!! I used a modified version for a water modeling effect for my class film this year at SVA :) thank you for the delicious compositing tips ❤

Oh wow! So creative method! I love everything in this tut✨💖

i wish this guy was releasing tutorials to this day

Wow love it !!! Thank you so much for sharing :) well explained, looking forward to seeing more wonderful tutorials.

Loved this. Also makes me realize I have so much more to learn. Please share more tutorials. And thanks!

I am blown away! Just genius!!🔥❤️

I’ve always loved your style. So excited!! MAKE MORE PLEASE

The tutorial is perfect in every way! Thank you so much, Stephen😊

Nice! I love the way you tweak with compositions! Please make more videos

Dude loved this! Amazing tutorial - keen to see more!

A beautifully done wave👌🏼 Thank you for the hardwork🙏🏼

Thanks man.. I was searching for this exact effect for a project.. It was helpful for sure..

Wow that's insane! super cool and dope tutorial thank you so much!

Wow , this is super impressive, really nice creative way to make this.

This is so cool and useful! It’s nice to see the style in it, it’s different than most and really inspiring! Thank you! please make more!

This is fantastic, thanks Steve and Ben for the share

Such a smart way ! I'm impressed. 👏

This is what I was looking for few times! Thanks mate!

I followed it all and I really enjoyed it!

hello thanks for genius tutorial but when i want to add stencil alpha it does not work

Great technique Steve and great tut.

This is so cool!! What a mastery of Ae 🤩 thank you for sharing your brilliant ideas 😊🥳

This is so great! Hope we'll be seeing more!

Love it! I'd love more tutorials like this please.

This is a great tutorial! I love your creation!

Great tutorial! Very resourceful! Not too long, but still very informative. Keep them coming!

So much creativity!!!! I loved it. Thank you so much for sharing.

Woah brilliant! Keep up the great work man.

You are awesome ..! such a great tutorial for us... learned something great from you.. hoping for more great tutorials for us in future... lots of love 😍❤️🤩🤩

Brilliant. Suuuper result and nice-and-to-the-point :)

That's so brilliant😍😍😍😍😍😍😍...I'm lovin it

I can never thank you enough my G

My jaw was on the floor by the end of this

Brilliant! So useful and insightful.

Wow man. Just incredible.

This is so creative! 🔥

It's amazing! Thank you for the tutorial 😍

Wow! Will try this asap. Thanks so much!!!!

Thankyou so much for this tutorial🙏. I love it and very helpful👍 you gained my subscribe instantly

This is insanely good

This was amazing! Thanks

Genius man, how did you discover that? Thank you so mutch for teatching this! Awesom :D

Wow this is amazing!

Hi! How did you get it to look like the version in the beginning? Did you overlay textures on top of it?

Looks so cooool!

You're underrated bro 🙂

My Alpha stencil doesn't work? I doesn't show the water ripples, I'm using 22.6.0 btw

Thank you very much, very useful😊

Life saver thank you !

it helps a lot.. TQ so so much!!

the video in the intro is slightly diffrent , did you add blur and glow ? also thanks for the tutorial!

Wow thanks Stephen

So cool... thanks mate

wow just wow, thank you very much, can you add more videos?

muy muy muuuuy bueno! impecable!

this is great!

Thank you!

Cool, thank you!

could you share your typography tutorial you have uploaded it in 2010. To this day I haven't seen anything like that!!

great tutorial

This is awesome

so cool!

Seu trabalho é muito lindo!

nice tutorial 🔥🔥

How did you add water sparkles on the first preview in the beginning of the video

could you explain more in shortcut button on apple? thank you

Brilliant 😍🔥

Cool to see named layers 😎

Nice!!! Thanks!

Your voice is kinda soothing almost fell asleep, but the tutorial was pretty interesting so didn't!

This is amazing! How did you repurpose this technique to the typography and still keep it very legible?

thank you

Awesomeeeee

Woahh

You duplicated the comp and delete the inside, but will it effect on the other comp? because as i know, 2 comps are one, they just are copies of another but still linked together.

crazy !

Welp.... Gained one sub !

thank you how can i ass this effect to text on top?

At 1:08 appear POSITION and SCALE at the same time. How to make those two appear at the same time?

Need more

wake up G. it's been 1 year when you left 😢

please make more videos 😭😭

WOW

where are u now

Really nice tutorial!

I do love this tutorial. I really wish you continue making such AE stuffs this quality. I discover you in Instagram where i follow JakeInMotion and he likes your work. Thank you