Jonathan Hooper

I create motion graphics and visual effects in after effects.

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  3. New Tutorial Element 3D Transitions — 2 comments
  4. Puzzle Animation — 2 comments
  5. Spirograph with Trapcode Particular — 1 comment

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year from JEH Designs.   Plugins used – Element 3D, Newton 2, Trapcode Particular.  

Merry Christmas (2016)

Merry Christmas from JEH Designs.  

Some Animations with Newton

Here are some of my first animations with Newton the physics engine from Motion Boutique.  It’s a fun plugin, I’m looking forward to what I can create with it.  

Goodbye FPW

Goodbye FPW, it’s been fun and creative.  Steve, Matt, and Lee Thank you.   From the Facebook page –  Future pro wrestling Thank you and goodnight. As most of you know we had to cancel our October 29th show due to personal circumstances affecting one of us that would have made running the show impossible. …

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Happy Halloween 2016

Trick or Treat? Happy Halloween.  

FREE Simple Web Preset Download

Here is a preset to create a simple web.  It’s not realistic but could be used for motion graphics or something.  No 3rd party effects are used. Once you have downloaded and unzipped the file, put the preset file in your presets folder (Program Files-Adobe-After Effects-Support Files-Presets). The preset was created in After Effects CC …

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Rolling Robots

The BB-8 model is from the Star pack and the other robot is made up from parts of the Motion Design 2 pack.  Both robots are animated with the Aux Channels and Null objects.  Sound effects are from Motion Pulse.  

Cube Logo Animation

An animated OBJ cube from the BlockU pack was used to form the main cube.  Trapcode Particular with the Rounded Cubes preset was used as the background.  Sound effects are from Motion Pulse. Here are some other cube logos that I played around with.

Sliding Puzzle Animation

Photoshop was used with the Slice tool to slice up the image into square sections. In After Effects the square sections were used as textures for Element 3D and applied to the square puzzle pieces. Each puzzle piece is animated with the aux channels.  

Some Amberlight 2 Animation Experiments

Here are some animation experiments with the Amberlight 2 program from Escape Motions.