Create Backgrounds Using CC HexTile Effect in After Effects

https://youtu.be/zlf75OXy0ts

Adobe After Effects CC 2024: Create Backgrounds using CC HexTile Effect

**Description:
**This tutorial will show you how to use the CC HexTile Effect to generate interesting backgrounds in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

Settings Used on CC Hextile:
Render: Fold Seamlessly
Radius: 50
Rotate: (Animate by adding keyframes at beginning & end)
Smearing: adjust to tast

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro: About The Tutorial
00:14 Add Footage To Composition
00:24 Add HexTile Effect
00:43 Customize HexTile Effect
01:01 HexTile: Radius Settings
01:16 HexTile: Center Property
01:29 HexTile: Rotate Property
01:39 HexTile: Smearing
02:01 Add Keyframes For Rotate
02:33 Swap Out or Replace Background
03:05 Replace Background #2
03:22 Recap: HexTile Effect

**Software Used:
**Adobe After Effects CC 2024 (Click To Try or Buy)

How To Use CC HexTile Effect

1. Open Adobe After Effects
2. Create New Composition
3. Add Footage (Image, Graphics, Logos, Textures, Videos)
4. Go to Effects & Presets Panel
5. Search For HexTile
6. Drag CC HexTile Effect on Footage Layer
7. Change Render to ‘Fold Seamlessly’
8. Change Radius to 50
9. Adjust Smearing to Taste

How To Animate Rotation Property of CC HexTile Effect

1. Go to Effect Controls
2. Change Rotate to all Zeros
3. Drag CTI (PlayHead to the beginning of Timeline)
4. Click the Stopwatch to add a keyframe
5. Drag CTI to the end of Timeline
6. Enter in 359 in Rotate Property to create a loop
7. Tap Spacebar to Preview

How To Swap Out Footage/Backgrounds:

1. Select Layer with CC HexTile Effect
2. Go to Project Panel
3. Press Option or Alt Key
4. Click on Footage File
5. Drag on top of selected file in Layers Panel
6. Release mouse cursor
7. Tap Spacebar to Preview