Guide:Adding film grain (typesetting)

Film grain is a texture effect present in many anime, especially older ones. The texture may stay the same (static grain) or change randomly over time (dynamic grain).

Creating large areas like masks without recreating the grain texture will cause the area to stand out and look unnatural.

Steps

 * 1) Using grain.ttf, add a layer of pure white grain and a layer of pure black grain with random characters. Ensure that the characters for both layers are different to avoid overlaps.
 * 2) Adjust the alpha, blur and size on both until it looks like the surrounding grain.
 * 3) * Use and the shad trick for higher grain density.
 * 4) Clip the grain to the shape.

Creating dynamic grain
The above steps will create static grain. To make it dynamic, additionally do the following:


 * 1) Split the line as  ( or  can do this).
 * 2) Make it dynamic. This can be done in one of two ways:
 * 3) * Change the full set of random characters in every line.
 * 4) * Use a script to shake the lines, adjusting the x and y randomness to taste. Scripts that can do this are and the shake function of.