Getting the 8-Bit Color Cycling Look in After Effects: 30 Days of Ae

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Installment number 13 of the 30 days of After Effects sees School of Motion’s Joey Korenman shows how to create 8-bit color cycling in After Effects and achieve the dithered look of retro computer graphics of years gone by.

In actuality this is a pretty good lesson in adding critical thinking skills to your motion graphics workflow and is a pretty good example of how to think to solve problems in After Effects,

This tutorial is, on the surface, about a technique that has very little practical use for an average Motion Design gig. It’s cool, and you might learn some tricks, but what I REALLY hope you learn is this: How to think and solve-problems in After Effects. Check out the day 13 tutorial for 8-bit color cycling in After Effects here.

Retro Dither for After Effects

As luck would have it, there was a newly released plugin for After Effects that allows you to get the retro computer graphics look with some ease, con tainting multiple styles of various vintage game and computer console looks.

Retro Dither, a new plugin from BGRA Entertainment who brought us the L4tt3rM4pp3r textmode and ASCII art video mapping plugin for After Effects released Retro Dither. A GPU accelerated plugging for After Effects which will allow you to “retro-ize” any Ae project.

Retro Dother uses smart dithering and color schemes to easily re-create any retro computer look. The plugin can be purchased through aescripts + aeplugins for $49.99. Check outRetro Dither plugin for After Effects here.