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Line Boil Animation Using Turbulent Noise & Displacement Map in After Effects

January 15, 2025 ·

This tutorial will show you how to create a Line Boil Jittery Animation using Turbulent Noise & Displacement Map Effects in Adobe After Effects CC 2025.

Description

**This tutorial will show you how to create a Line Boil Jittery Animation using Turbulent Noise & Displacement Map Effects in Adobe After Effects CC 2025.

**Effects Used:
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Turbulent Noise
Displacement Map

**Expressions Used:
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time*4
time*24

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro: About The Tutorial
00: 17 What is Line Boil?
00: 39 Composition Settings
00:54 Create New Solid (Cmd/Ctrl + Y)
01:21 New Adjustment Layer
01:43 Animate Turbulent Noise (Time Expression)
02:19 Add New Adjustment Layer
02:45 Add Displacement Map Effect
03:07 Displacement Map Layer
03:34 Effects & Masks
03:51 Modify Animation
04:16 Opacity Property
04:45 Move Comp Into Another Comp

**Software Used:
**Adobe After Effects CC 2025 (Click To Try or Buy)
Adobe Photoshop CC 2025 (Click To Try or Buy)

How To Add & Animate Turbulent Displace:

  1. Create New Comp
  2. 1920 x 1080, 24 fps, 10 secs
  3. Add Footage (graphics, text, etc)
  4. Create A New Solid Layer (Cmd/Ctrl + Y)
  5. Go to Effects & Presets Panel
  6. Search for Turbulent Noise
  7. Drag it onto Solid Layer
  8. Go to Effect Controls Panel
  9. Twirl open Evolution Options
  10. Option + Click on Random Seed
  11. Enter time*4
  12. Tap Space

How To Add Displacement Map Effect:

  1. Create a New Adjustment Layer
  2. Go to Effects & Presets Panel
  3. Search for Displacement Map
  4. Go to Effect Controls Panel
  5. Click Drop-down menu and select ‘Solid Layer’
  6. Click Drop-down to the right and select ‘Effects & Masks

Finishing Touches:

  1. Change time* Expression on Turbulent Noise for different animation styles
  2. Adjust Opacity of Turbulent Noise to fine tune animation
  3. Change Displacement Map for distortion
  4. Drag Comp into another Composition to add background, etc

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