If it’s not animated, you don’t have to do this. (If your graphic or logo is moving, you want the texture moving with it, creating a seamless animation.

Last but not least, be sure to make the distressed texture file 3D, and then parent the file to the logo you’re working on.

Then go over to the Track Matte dropdown and hit “Alpha Matte.” This will place your logo or graphic inside the texture, but if you hit “Inverted Matte,” then the texture will appear inside the graphic instead, giving you the “distressed” look that the freebie offers. Then go down to the text element or the pre-comp and select it. So, with your layer selected, go to the Effects panel and delete the Fill Effect. Feel free to resize it and make the individual details of the texture as big as you want. From here, you can scale down the texture to fill up the logo as you see fit. Then go to Effect > Generate > Fill. This will bring the texture into the source monitor.

The vector workflow you imagined between apps created by the same company. Transfer shapes as you need them without importing, converting or redrawing. So, you’re going to drag and drop the PNG file for whichever texture you decided to go with above the pre-comp that has the text animation. An invisible connection system a mystical portal between Illustrator and After Effects.

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