Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This tutorial shows how to quickly make a stop motion animated paper texture in Adobe After Effects (for mixed media animations).
Or get the full pack for $19: creationeffects.com/effects/animated-paper-textures
Paper Cutout Effect: creationeffects.com/effects/paper-cutout-effect
Mixed Media Effect: creationeffects.com/mixed-media-effect
Creation Art Effects: creationeffects.com/creation-art-effects
The "Animated Paper Textures" pack for After Effects includes 60 high-res paper images. Just drop in your footage or graphics and it will appear printed on the paper texture, with simple controls to customize the amount of ink bleed, texture contrast, frame rate, and more. Use the textures as backgrounds, overlays, or in your mixed media animations.
This technique uses a simple wiggle expression to apply random variation so no two frames of the animation are ever the same.
This tutorial shows how to quickly make a stop motion animated paper texture in Adobe After Effects (for mixed media animations).
Or get the full pack for $19: creationeffects.com/effects/animated-paper-textures
Paper Cutout Effect: creationeffects.com/effects/paper-cutout-effect
Mixed Media Effect: creationeffects.com/mixed-media-effect
Creation Art Effects: creationeffects.com/creation-art-effects
The "Animated Paper Textures" pack for After Effects includes 60 high-res paper images. Just drop in your footage or graphics and it will appear printed on the paper texture, with simple controls to customize the amount of ink bleed, texture contrast, frame rate, and more. Use the textures as backgrounds, overlays, or in your mixed media animations.
This technique uses a simple wiggle expression to apply random variation so no two frames of the animation are ever the same.










![Brushstroke Write-On Effect | After Effects Tutorial (for streaky calligraphy strokes)
This After Effects tutorial shows how to make realistic, calligraphic brush strokes with a write-on effect. Or you can download the animation preset at https://www.creationeffects.com/effects/scribe-after-effects-brushstroke.
The animation preset is just $19 and has customization controls and additional features not shown in this tutorial.
With this technique that uses the Echo effect, you can get a stroke with parallel streaks (like a paintbrush) and varied width (like a calligraphy pen). The stroke writes itself out as it follows a path that you draw with the Pen tool.
At 6:00, paste the following expression onto the Brush layers Rotation:
p1 = position.valueAtTime(time - thisComp.frameDuration);
p2 = position.valueAtTime(time);
value + radiansToDegrees(Math.atan2(p2[1] - p1[1], p2[0] - p1[0]));
at 8:45, paste this expression into the Echo Time property of the Echo effect:
s = effect(Echo Spacing)(Slider);
- thisComp.frameDuration / s;
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:54 Make a brush texture
02:03 Scribe (optional preset)
03:07 Draw a path
05:30 Adding streaks
07:07 Echo effect
10:01 Keying out streaks
10:51 Compositing and color
11:40 Roughen edges
11:54 Rotating & scaling brush
14:40 Mixed Media Effect Brushstroke Write-On Effect | After Effects Tutorial (for streaky calligraphy strokes)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nNPEFPg4w4s/mqdefault.jpg)