# Shading & Texturing

## Hand-drawin

### Boil effect

#### Posterize Time

#### Turbulent Displace

#### 3rd-party effects

* Shade it, EyeDesyn — $15
* Flexible noise gradient, Gareso — free

## Gradient 

### Pearlescent

#### Examples

* Age of no code
* TED-ED, Artificial intelligence,Champ
* COVID-19, The Furrow

### Grain

* [**Planets Orbiting Motion Graphic Tutorial in After Effects,**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uFcdU8-NTo) **AeMachine**

## Metal

### Gold

### Irisdescent

## **Faux 3D**

* **layer styles**
* Using 3D objects but 2D gradients
* **Glass**
  * glassmorphism
* **Crystal**
* Handdrawn
  * Grainy shading 
* **Abstract** 
  * painterly

## Hybrid

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