Creating Psychedelic Backgrounds with CC Kaleida in After Effects

https://youtu.be/vAkflXRxOVs

Adobe After Effects CC 2024: Create Psychedelic Backgrounds using CC Kaleida Effect

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

**Expression Used on Rotation Property:
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time*25

Settings Used on CC Kaleida:
Size: 100
Mirror Type: Starlish

Settings Used on Fast Box Blur:
Blur Radius: 100
Iterations: 3
Blur Directions: Horizontal & Vertical

Settings Used on 4-Color Gradient:
Default Colors
Blending Mode: Soft Light or Multiply

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro: About The Tutorial
00:15 Composition Settings
00:23 Add Footage To Composition
00:35 Add CC Kaleida Effect
00:56 Customize CC Kaleida Settings
01:08 Add Expression to Rotation Property
01:32 Add Fast Box Blur Effect
01:56 Add 4-Color Gradient Effect
02:17 Adjust Fast Box Blur Radius
02:52 Swap Out + Replace Footage
03:27 Footage 2 Overview
03:52 Recap + Summary

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

How To Create Psychedelic Looping Backgrounds:

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 Kaleida
6. Drag CC Kaleida Effect on Footage Layer
7. Change Size to 100
8. Change Mirroring to ‘Starlish’
9. Press Option or Alt and click on Stopwatch next to ‘Rotation’
10. Enter expression time*25
11. Press Spacebar to preview (cool animation)
12. Go to Effects & Presets Panel
13. Search for Fast Box Blur
14. Drag effect on footage layer
15. Change Blur Radius to 50
16. Go to Effects & Presets Panel
17. Search for 4-Color Gradient
18. Drag effect on footage layer
19. Change Blending Mode to Multiply or Soft Light (experiment)
20. Customize to taste
21. Press Spacebar to Preview
22. Add Logos, Text, etc
23. Have fun!