Procedural Ripped Paper Effect | After Effects Project File

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Essentially this is a rig where you can drop cutout footage or images into a precomp, then a few precomps of magic later out pops that same image, but it looks like it's been ripped from a magazine or newspaper.

If you're reading this in 2025 or beyond, google those words above.

This torn paper look works really well with collage style animation. You see them all the time, as it’s a style which seemingly never goes out of fashion.

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Please consider subscribing to my channel so I can provide more free project files (and create more tutorials with inane film clips in).

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