AI is a great tool for motion design, graphic design, and animation. If you’re already using AI in your motion work, the annoying part isn’t the results — it’s the constant context switching: After Effects → browser →...
Read more →Keeping a file system organized is harder and slower than it needs to be. Creating files and folders by hand is tedious, and using command lines is complex and unintuitive. File Architect fixes that.
Read more →I have been doing more coding work lately. Since the arrival of llm and coding assistants, I have been able to do more and get from idea to prototype much faster. Having a couple of projects that...
Read more →There are many things After Effects should take from Cinema 4D. One of them is the ability to hide an object from the viewport, but have it show up in the render. There are many ways you can do this in Cinema 4D...
Read more →I just got my four years freelancing chip in December. During those years, I worked on more than 200 projects, ranging from two to hundreds of hours. I realized a couple of things along the way.
Read more →TLDR: This is an experiment of sound editing with binaural beats, alongside Winamp's Milkdrop WebGL visualizations. I recommend watching it in full screen with good headphones.
Read more →It has been an awfully long time while since I last wrote here. I am still alive and well.
Read more →Animating to audio is an important part of working inside of After Effects. But it can become messy very quickly. As soon as you move things around you have to manually resynchronize everything. Here’s a solution that...
Read more →After Effect’s Fill effect is a very useful effect. If you have never used you probably should look into it. It’s the simplest effect. It just applies a color onto a layer. Basic stuff. The weird thing with this effect...
Read more →A practical naming pattern for After Effects comps that makes hierarchy obvious, keeps lists readable, and scales from small projects to large ones.
Read more →The typical wiggle expression in After Effects is this: wiggle(frequency, amplitude) So if you would like your position to move on a scale of 20 pixels every half second you would use this expression on the position...
Read more →Last summer I had the chance to work on a series of video projections for the [Festival d’Été de Québec](http://www.infofestival.com/), also known as FEQ. It’s an awesome music festival taking...
Read more →In October of 2014 I started working freelance for [Blackout Design](http://blackoutdesign.ca/en/), a visual environment design company. I've had the chance to work, along with many other talented...
Read more →A well-structured naming convention is part of a good work hygiene. It simplifies your thought process on many small operations (saving, searching, sending, etc.) and removes risks of accidentally deleting or...
Read more →I recently had to prepare a couple of Illustrator files for animation (in After Effects) and found myself stumbling upon a couple of bottlenecks.
Read more →After Effects has lots of shortcuts. Having them all in the same place makes it easier to find one in particular or to just learn those available. This list has been generated from the shortcut file content which can be...
Read more →Displaying a dynamic amount of money in After Effect can quickly become a bit of a headache. Handling the various mathematic and typographic technicalities of currencies in one bulletproof expression is tricky, but not...
Read more →Expressions are a really powerful feature in After Effects. It can help you improve the quality and fluidity of your animation but it can also help you organize your project. Expressions if used well, gives you the...
Read more →In this second article about easing the gif creation process we'll see how we can automate the process of firing up the render and sending the video file to Photoshop with some ExtendScript. First, what is ExtendScript?...
Read more →To follow-up on our article 15 great animated gifs on Dribbble , it makes sense that we look at how we can make such gifs as swiftly as possible. We will go over this in two separate articles. We'll first see in this...
Read more →Dribbble is a really great place to get exposure as a designer. It's also a really good place to showcase your animation and motion graphics skills. Here's some great examples of how a simple looping gif can quickly...
Read more →You will often find yourself toggling the visibility of layers in After Effects. This can get really cumbersome and hazardous to click all those little eye icons in deeply nested compositions. Having a controller layer...
Read more →Adobe provides us some command line interface to start renders without having to start After Effects ( here's the documentation ). This can be really useful when using multiple computers on remote desktops or just to...
Read more →Sometimes, all you need is a constraint. The fear of the blank page can stop you really fast from starting something. Here are some challenges and contests you can do now to help you get creative without the hassle of...
Read more →Modifying shortcuts in After Effects is a surprisingly tedious and unintuitive task. There is no way to do it from within our interface as in Premiere Pro (Premiere Pro > Keyboard Shortcuts) or Cinema 4D (Window/Layout...
Read more →From After Effects animation techniques to pre-production workflow tips passing by ExtendScript automation and useful apps and websites, we'll cover a large palette of motion graphics/animation/video, related topics...
Read more →While writing After Effects scripts, I often find myself having to convert hexadecimal color to float numbers array, eg.: #f8a908 → [0.97, 0.66, 0.03]
Read more →Welcome to you Internet traveler that somehow landed on this post! This is my new blog’s official first post.
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