Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The Mixed Media Effect for Adobe After Effects lets anyone create captivating mixed media collage animations from their footage. Learn more at creationeffects.com/mixed-media-effect.
Mixed media animations (aka collage animations, analog animations, or scrapbook animation) is an animation style that blends drawing and painting with various physical materials – like an animated scrapbook. Traditionally, these animations are made by printing each frame of footage on paper, then drawing or painting on each frame, compositing physical elements onto the paper, photographing each frame, and then editing it all together. Needless to say, it's incredibly time-consuming. It's also unnecessary. The Mixed Media Effect blends real-world elements with customizable digital effects to create an authentic hand-crafted video collage.
This enormous After Effects template has over 900 copy-and-paste effects for your footage. Effects can be customized with simple controls to get the perfect look. With endless creative options, editors can use it again and again to create bold, high-quality mixed media collage animations that viewers can't look away from.
Here's a breakdown of the included effects:
Alter Your Footage
182 creative effects that transform your footage, such texture overlays, color grading, transition effects, and artistic, stylized visual treatments. These include 11 "art effects", taken from the Creation Art Effects template, which convert your footage into an animated work of art in various artistic mediums such as pencil sketch, watercolor, halftone prints, paper cutouts, and more. You'll also find 4 "paper stack collage" presets, which instantly deliver a dynamic animation with your footage composited on multiple sheets of torn-edged paper.
Animated Textures
119 dynamic textures made from real-world elements such as fabric, paper, metal, paint, and hand-drawn textures. They're always changing, so no two frame are the same. Animated textures are used everywhere in the template, and are the foundation for many of the effects.
Composite Physical Materials
168 options for compositing real-world elements over your footage, such as fabric, foil, clay, paper scraps, hand-drawn doodle cutouts, and magazine clippings.
Draw, Paint, & Scratch
140 effects for drawing on your footage. There are custom doodles, scribbles, paint strokes, paper scratches, and other animated markings that are ready to composite. The strokes follow a path, so simply draw with the pen tool, and customize the stroke with the controls. Keyframe the path to make the stroke follow your footage. To quickly convey an emotion or idea, choose from 67 animated doodles.
Text & Titles
You'll have no shortage of animated text options for your collage animation. The ransom note effect uses hundreds of magazine font clippings to create characters that change on every frame. You can also spell out your words or phrases with dynamic, animated characters that are handwritten, paper-scratched, or custom-stroke characters that follow a path. For quick and easy titles, use one of the 11 animated text styles taken from the Creation Title Effects template. Simply edit the text and font with the Text tool, and customize the appearance with the controls. lastly, the Title Mashup effect is included: creationeffects.com/title-mashup
How it works: The effects are individual layers, so building your collage animation is as easy as copying and pasting layers to your comp, above your footage layer. Most of the effects have customization controls, so you can adjust their appearance. The effects use real paper, fabric, and hand-drawn textures for an authentic hand-crafted vibe.
Scrapbooking is essentially real-world compositing. As the industry-leading compositing program, there's no better solution than After Effects, combined with the Mixed Media Effect template, for crafting rich, scrapbook animations.
There is a chapter for each category of effect:
00:00 Intro
02:22 Getting Started
05:09 Stop Motion Effect
08:48 Animated Textures
13:11 "Creation Art Effects" Looks
16:49 Color Grading
17:43 Copy & Paste Stylized Looks
19:02 Paper Stack Collage
19:57 Texture Overlays
21:35 Time Effects
22:20 Transition Effects
25:34 Backgrounds, Borders, Design Elements
26:20 Collage Materials Along Path
27:58 Collage Materials Inside Mask
29:43 Effect Reference
30:54 Hand-Drawn Doodle Cutouts
31:32 Magazine Picture Clippings
31:56 Comps from Demo Video
32:53 Animated Doodles (Customizable)
34:42 Animated Doodles (Public Domain)
35:15 Borders & Frames
36:14 Draw & Paint Along Contours
37:13 Draw & Paint Inside Mask
38:00 Draw & Paint Along Path
41:01 Scribbles, Lines, & Scratches
42:14 Creation Title Effects
43:34 Handwritten & Magazine Characters
46:37 Characters on Path
47:38 Scratched Characters
48:28 Title Mashup
The Mixed Media Effect for Adobe After Effects lets anyone create captivating mixed media collage animations from their footage. Learn more at creationeffects.com/mixed-media-effect.
Mixed media animations (aka collage animations, analog animations, or scrapbook animation) is an animation style that blends drawing and painting with various physical materials – like an animated scrapbook. Traditionally, these animations are made by printing each frame of footage on paper, then drawing or painting on each frame, compositing physical elements onto the paper, photographing each frame, and then editing it all together. Needless to say, it's incredibly time-consuming. It's also unnecessary. The Mixed Media Effect blends real-world elements with customizable digital effects to create an authentic hand-crafted video collage.
This enormous After Effects template has over 900 copy-and-paste effects for your footage. Effects can be customized with simple controls to get the perfect look. With endless creative options, editors can use it again and again to create bold, high-quality mixed media collage animations that viewers can't look away from.
Here's a breakdown of the included effects:
Alter Your Footage
182 creative effects that transform your footage, such texture overlays, color grading, transition effects, and artistic, stylized visual treatments. These include 11 "art effects", taken from the Creation Art Effects template, which convert your footage into an animated work of art in various artistic mediums such as pencil sketch, watercolor, halftone prints, paper cutouts, and more. You'll also find 4 "paper stack collage" presets, which instantly deliver a dynamic animation with your footage composited on multiple sheets of torn-edged paper.
Animated Textures
119 dynamic textures made from real-world elements such as fabric, paper, metal, paint, and hand-drawn textures. They're always changing, so no two frame are the same. Animated textures are used everywhere in the template, and are the foundation for many of the effects.
Composite Physical Materials
168 options for compositing real-world elements over your footage, such as fabric, foil, clay, paper scraps, hand-drawn doodle cutouts, and magazine clippings.
Draw, Paint, & Scratch
140 effects for drawing on your footage. There are custom doodles, scribbles, paint strokes, paper scratches, and other animated markings that are ready to composite. The strokes follow a path, so simply draw with the pen tool, and customize the stroke with the controls. Keyframe the path to make the stroke follow your footage. To quickly convey an emotion or idea, choose from 67 animated doodles.
Text & Titles
You'll have no shortage of animated text options for your collage animation. The ransom note effect uses hundreds of magazine font clippings to create characters that change on every frame. You can also spell out your words or phrases with dynamic, animated characters that are handwritten, paper-scratched, or custom-stroke characters that follow a path. For quick and easy titles, use one of the 11 animated text styles taken from the Creation Title Effects template. Simply edit the text and font with the Text tool, and customize the appearance with the controls. lastly, the Title Mashup effect is included: creationeffects.com/title-mashup
How it works: The effects are individual layers, so building your collage animation is as easy as copying and pasting layers to your comp, above your footage layer. Most of the effects have customization controls, so you can adjust their appearance. The effects use real paper, fabric, and hand-drawn textures for an authentic hand-crafted vibe.
Scrapbooking is essentially real-world compositing. As the industry-leading compositing program, there's no better solution than After Effects, combined with the Mixed Media Effect template, for crafting rich, scrapbook animations.
There is a chapter for each category of effect:
00:00 Intro
02:22 Getting Started
05:09 Stop Motion Effect
08:48 Animated Textures
13:11 "Creation Art Effects" Looks
16:49 Color Grading
17:43 Copy & Paste Stylized Looks
19:02 Paper Stack Collage
19:57 Texture Overlays
21:35 Time Effects
22:20 Transition Effects
25:34 Backgrounds, Borders, Design Elements
26:20 Collage Materials Along Path
27:58 Collage Materials Inside Mask
29:43 Effect Reference
30:54 Hand-Drawn Doodle Cutouts
31:32 Magazine Picture Clippings
31:56 Comps from Demo Video
32:53 Animated Doodles (Customizable)
34:42 Animated Doodles (Public Domain)
35:15 Borders & Frames
36:14 Draw & Paint Along Contours
37:13 Draw & Paint Inside Mask
38:00 Draw & Paint Along Path
41:01 Scribbles, Lines, & Scratches
42:14 Creation Title Effects
43:34 Handwritten & Magazine Characters
46:37 Characters on Path
47:38 Scratched Characters
48:28 Title Mashup
