Jonathan Hooper

I create motion graphics and visual effects in after effects.

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  1. Happy Christmas 2023 — 2 comments
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  4. Puzzle Animation — 2 comments
  5. Spirograph with Trapcode Particular — 1 comment

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Spring Forward Time!

Spring Forward! Daylight savings time clocks go forward one hour. The slinky was made with Trapcode Tao and animated in After Effects, along with the hands on the clock.

Lenticular Animation Tutorial in After Effects

In this tutorial I show you how to create a lenticular effect in After Effects, without any plugins. The slice tool in Photoshop will be used to cut up the images into slices. Which will then be positioned and animated in After Effects. Watch the Tutorial HERE.

2021 to 2022 Happy New Year

Happy New Year. Made with Element 3D, CC Mr Mercury, a Disintegration effect and the Puppet Tool.

Happy Christmas 2021

Made with the Saber plugin and morphing masks.

First Few Drone Flights

This video contains clips from my first few flights with the DJI Mini 2 Drone. It’s a fun and easy to fly little drone, but I’m still getting used to it. I’m trying not to worry about if it’s a good shot or if it’s properly exposed at the moment, I’m focusing more on controlling …

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Animated Lego Rendered with Studio and After Effects

The Lego models were built and animated in Studio from BrickLink, then rendered. Additional animation was done in After Effects, like the bats flapping wings. Trapcode Particular was used to make the cloud of Bats. The build up animation for the Ae file logo and Dracula was done automatically in Studio.

10 Years of JEHDesigns.com

I’ve now had the website www.jehdesigns.com for 10 years! Doesn’t time fly?!

2020 to 2021

Getting rid of 2020! Animation was created in Adobe After Effects with the Element 3D plugin. Lets hope things get better in 2021.

Happy Christmas 2020

The tree was made with Trapcode Echo Space, the presents were made in Element3D and animated with key frames generated from Newton2. The Happy Christmas was animated with Trapcode Tao. Background elements were created with Trapcode Particular.

Animated Text with Trapcode Tao

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 …

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