The F-Curve Enigma

https://twitter.com/grunku/status/1274938063173509121 I was informed of this peculiar behavior of animation curves in Blender by grunku in MMaker's short lived server a while ago. Since I'm so accustomed to After Effects animation curves, this does seem to be very weird. At the time, I didn't think much of it, "maybe I'll do some testing later" and …

The Venetian Blinds Conundrum

After a rough morning of finishing a test and failing miserably to deliver on others' expectations, I went to take a short nap. When I woke up, it was 8 hours later in the evening, what a ''''''''nap''''''''. Got Discord booted up, ready to waste another day in front of the monitor, I was informed …

Bejewelescent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njPb_3x0k34 I'm not taking responsibility for the compression on the YouTube upload. The discussions about the possibility of this project first started over a year ago. I really didn't think this would take me a whole year. This is gonna be a long article, I honestly wouldn't have thought it would have deserved one, but …

After Effects Scripting (ExtendScript)

I realized I haven't written on this blog for a while, so I'm going to share something I made for a project WIP. So I had to work in a huuuuuuuge comp, there was like a couple hundred layers in there, honestly this is not a good way to work in this program but you …

Stylistic Choices

Recently I got to work on some CM work for BXM's <<Otomad Secret Battle>>. I intentionally tried to break some of my own boundaries, to be honest it didn't all turn out that well. 1. DJUNGARIAN https://streamable.com/dngea This was my attempt at the "cool techy" feel, somewhat inspired by works of megakite. Tried stacking a …

After Effects Expressions (JavaScript)

After Adobe made to switch from ExtendScript to full on JavaScript, I grew increasingly interested in them. A good video tutorial series I found is this one by Parker Young from Animoplex.And this ancient website motionscript.com from Dan Ebberts also helped me quite a bit.And of course the official expression language reference from Adobe. This …