Animated Text with Trapcode Tao

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  • October 11, 2020

Starting with the Arial font I traced each letter with a point light to create a path for the Trapcode Tao plug-in. Each letter and number has it’s own comp, so I could drag the letters into another comp to create words. Duplicating the letters and offsetting them I time-reverse the layers to create a write on and write off effect. Each letter and number has a bit of a twist so they don’t look too flat.

You can download the project file for my Letters and Numbers Animated Text HERE.

You will need the plug-in Trapcode Tao. You can buy Trapcode Tao from RedGiant.com they also offer a free trial of the plug-in.

Lego Spirit of the Woods Moc!

I thought it would be fun to try and create the characters from my short film Spirit of the Woods in Lego.

It was fun trying to source the parts for the figures that best resembled what the characters were wearing in the film. Some parts are custom printed Lego as I couldn’t find an ideal official piece.

I then thought it would be fun to make some box art that could be sets for the film. Created in Photoshop and After Effects. One is just the group of figures and the other is some figures in front of a castle from an old set that I still have.

Circle Rings Digital Doodle

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  • August 18, 2020

A collection of animations all using a ring as a shape replicator for different objects to drive the animation. A repeating rotation of the objects is what is animated.

Made in Adobe After Effects with the Element3D plug-in.

Blender Animation with Newton

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  • June 4, 2020

Blender animation made with the Newton2 plug-in for After Effects. The fruit pieces are still images from the Fruit model pack for Element3D. The blender and the glass are shape objects as is the liquid juice, which is made up of circle shape objects with a blur and levels effect added.

NHS Thank You

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  • April 20, 2020

NHS Thank You animation using Adobe After Effects. The rainbow and clouds were made in Element3D and the NHS letters were created with Trapcode Echospace.

Trapcode Particular Vortex Animation

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  • April 10, 2020

Trying out Trapcode Particular fluid particles in a vortex animation.

Raining Toilet Rolls Animation

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  • March 27, 2020

Raining Toilet Rolls Animation made with Trapcode Particular. The toilet roll sprite was made with Element3D.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS 2019

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  • December 24, 2019

Happy Christmas animation created in Adobe After Effects using the Newton2 plugin and a Digital Juice background.

Rotating Boxes

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  • December 12, 2019

Rotating boxes animation using Newton2 in Adobe After Effects.

VHS Style Trailer for Spirit of the Woods

VHS Style Trailer for my short film Spirit of the Woods.
Red Giant Universe was used for the look and the trailer voice is from Sonokinetic Trailer voice pack.