C4D Tip. If using the Point xpresso node with a primitive object, use a child correction deformer as the object input instead of the primitive. It won't work otherwise.

exceptionally late to this but i finally caught Hundreds of Beavers on @jct.bsky.social's recommendation and it should be required viewing for any game developer i probably undid my surgery from laughing so hard 5 stars

Akane Banashi is incredible. How do I explain that a plain storytelling performance is the hypest, most satisfying reveal after months of build up?

Finally got around to modifying Mikey Borup's After Effects Tutorial to mosaic a lack-of-detail instead of luma.

Iteration = time to build, rethink and refine existing material. Change = new parameters that require new solutions/script. Change does not build upon ideas, it swaps them for new ones, demanding everyone involved in the process to react and restart based upon this new premise. 4/9

New blog post online :)! "Walk cycles, but easy" gotibo.fr/blog/walk-cy... #b3d #animation #blog #tutorial

This is a wonderful post explaining how to make animations feel "right" (or why sometimes you don't need to animate at all). 👇 emilkowal.ski/ui/you-dont-...

Gotta love that point in a project where professionals discus how to appease the ghosts living in the project files.

Wow. Infinity Castle goes hard

Ah ok here's a fun tip I ran across by accident, hopefully it still works if your algorithm starts going conservative, watch Tasting History by Max Miller. it's like algorithmic bug spray for fascism www.youtube.com/@TastingHist...

Catenary Sockets. Messing around in C4D, Redshift, AE, etc.

Opened up the After Effects Beta this morning and got a tip of the day from a very smart and incredibly handsome individual.

Spent hours crafting a Google Earth Studio animation only for chrome to crash and lose ALL progress. Why does earth studio need to be a webapp if it's not saving to the cloud? Why doesn't it save changes like google docs or resolve? Why create a project file up front if it isn't saved?

Gideon: The Ninth. The illustration skulls were a last minute addition. The animation is driven almost exclusively with displacement maps.

Free Video Game Idea Using limited resources, place cameras around the white house until there's no unknown status.

Today is my Birthday! If you want to congratulate me, the best gift would be to retweet my drawings🙏💖 Thank you for sticking with me💐

Gideon The Ninth. I rigged up each letter with a random off-settable direction per stroke which adjusted reveal matte angle in addition to just the positions!

Gideon the Ninth. This lockup is what propelled me to make the entire rest of the piece. And it's the last sequence I'll be clipping!

We. Do. Bones. The type treatment that started it all. I saw a CelestialMaze tweet and thought that'd be a cool treatment for the locked tomb type.

I've worked with the strong and they're nothing if not worthy of your help.

Calling video game industry folks! You know the Strong Museum of Play, right? The museum that understands us & is documenting OUR history? Federal budget shenanigans have them in a surprise $500K hole. If you're able to support them, now's the time. Here's the link: www.museumofplay.org/support/

Gideon The Ninth. I forgot to make the slash in 3D so the broken number is done completely in composite! It was a fun little challenge.

Free Game Idea. It's just simon says/the memory game but it's a cat. A cat that likes being pet in a certain way.

The Ninth House. " We. Do. Bones. ████████████ !" Re-worked the iconic line to fit into this teaser. It took a while to find what the conclusion would be.

💥 Dynamic burst shapes have a balance of a proper center point with compelling shapes that emanate outward. @srrafles.bsky.social notes show how the spikes all point back to a single spot, maximizing the intensity and cohesion of the overall burst! #vfx #shapes

The Ninth House. "Nine for the Tomb, and for all that was lost" This shot mirrors the movement of sh810. The camera move before settling is what makes this shot work.

Really enjoying catching up with Cosmos. It's everything I didn't know I wanted in a manga: Men in Black.

this came to me in a dream

AE Reference coming in clutch again with a clean loop-able wiggle expression . Chris Zachary @itstheonlychris keeping the lights on and the rest of us thriving. aereference.com/expressions/...

The Eighth House SH810 I'm emphasizing each thrash by adding radial blurs that toggle between positive and negative to imply even more sub-frame motion!

The Eighth House. SH800 It was easier than expected to make this rogue-one inspired "emerge from the shadows" shot! Just don't put lights over there!

The Seventh House SH720 The "fall away" is actually a camera moving away. The background bones are linked to the camera to give the illusion that the skull is the one moving.

Okay, big breath... After more than two years since we published our last documentary on the topic, it's time we returned to Disco Elysium: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZEA...

The Seventh House. SH710 I made this rose from scratch with petals and a cloner in blend mode. Annoyingly I wasn't able to select petals clones with a random field so I have 3 copies, each with different petals turned off before baking to alembic.

Last night, as I was falling asleep, I thought about a motion design rap song would sound like... 🎼As a freelancer, I become your savior. 🎶Walk into your church, saying 🎤"What's up? It's Andrew Kramer."

The Seventh House SH700 I'm cheating the rose's position outwards to make it appear around the side of the skull more slowly. Before It seemed to pop on suddenly.

The Seventh House. "Seven for beauty that blossoms and dies" Getting the shader on the rose right took a while! It's the most saturated object in the whole project. There's a subtle glow that brings it all together.

The Sixth House. SH620 I had a bunch of light spill I darkened in comp and you can't even notice those flushed cheeks. The look down the lens required an entirely different set of lights than the lead-in.

The Sixth House SH 610 The camera move so the skull seems to read while setting up the next shot cut was a tough nut to crack. The paper ends up being the through line maintaining motion.

Had a blast talking shop (and also not) at the meetup last night! The Chicago Motion Artists Group meets monthly and it's a great way to connect with other motion designers. Hope to see you at the next one!

Finding Light. Experimenting with caustics, diffraction grating osl, capsules, and 4 act story structures. This was supposed to be 4 seconds! Personal Scope creep is real.

The Sixth House SH600 The shadows and highlights are hand masked and exposure adjusted for emphasis . Did you even notice that focus pull?

Quote with your gold art! Gold and Skulls go together like Peanut Butter and Chocolate.

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The Sixth House. "Six for the truth over solace in lies" This sequence took a while to come together but focusing on light, shadow, and paper translucency pulled it through.

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here. From my dissertation:

This might be my favorite manga currently publishing so I hope this can live up to it.

WIP of something I'm tinkering with. Let's see if I can get this out soon.