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Happy Christmas 2023

The dancing Santa is a 3D model from Pond5. Animation is done using Mixamo and rendered in Element3D with After Effects. The background images of the cabin and the interior are generated using Adobe Firefly. I separated the foreground trees and the cabin, then offset their position in 3D space to give a sense of …

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Sci-Fi Box Animation

A Sci Fi box animation created in After Effects with Element 3D. A multi object cub animating between another multi object cube and then back again, using the animation engine in Element 3D.

Trapcode Tao Octopus

Here is another character made with Trapcode Tao in Adobe After Effects and inspired by Hank the octopus from Pixar’s Finding Dory.  Created with animated Tao lights and the repeat paths option for the tentacles.  Trapcode Particular was used for the ink. 

My 100th Video on YouTube

This is my 100th Video uploaded to YouTube.   My first video I uploaded was the Mini Bond short film in 2009, which has so far been viewed 1,403 times. My top 5 most viewed videos so far are – 1 – Avengers Tesseract Cube Tutorial 2 – Element 3D Transitions Tutorial 3 – Lights …

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Sham Castle

Sham Castle A fake castle overlooking the City of Bath, built in 1762 next to the Bath Golf Club. Timelapse images were edited in Lightroom and put together in After Effects, with  timing adjustments made in Premiere Pro.  

Progress Wrestling Animations

Here is a selection of my favourite Wrestler animations that I made for Progress Wrestling.  The animations are around 10 seconds long and incorporate any of the Wrestlers logos, colours, nicknames, or tag lines.  The animations are always fun to make as each Wrestler is different. For more information about Progress Wrestling you can visit the Facebook page …

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Some Saber Tests

Having some fun with the Saber plug-in, here are some first renders.