After Effects Sketches: Cortex Podcast Art

I just liked the show art for this episode, and remade it while I was listening.

After Effects Sketches

I make little sketches in After Effects all the time, sometimes to help someone else figure out a shot, or just to recreate something I find interesting. I usually don’t share them anywhere, but what if I did? It might go a little something like this…

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The project for this shot is a meme-fountain.

Cavalry in SPACE

Poor Gonk droid.

This is not my design. This is one of the first things I built in Cavalry, just copying something I saw posted in the After Effects discord. I’m sorry I don’t know who made it originally,

Above: Cavalry

Below: After Effects

Word on the street is that Cavalry is going to get some features in the near future that might allow for this sort of thing.

More Cavalry Tests

Continuing to play with Cavalry. Sometimes fun, sometimes frustrating. It feels like there’s a lot more clicking than I’m used to.

Trains and lighthouses are the number one topics in America right now, so it was important to do something about each of those.

The cloud of Z’s is flying around dynamically, without any keyframing. I haven’t been able to figure out how to make Jean’s hand follow the cloud, so you’ll just have to assume she’s the one controlling everything.

Text Rotor

I’m finally getting the first gasp of downtime in this year, and spending some of it to kick the tires on Cavalry, a new app for motion graphics. I saw someone asking online how to do a shot like this and Cavalry actually makes it a snap.

Almost exactly a year ago, someone else asked about the same clip and while it’s possible in After Effects, it takes a lot more doing.