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Let’s Brainstorm
Doodling and drawing have always been one of best methods for me to maintain focus. Often I would use them as a brainstorming device – writing and drawing on paper while my mind either wanders around or tries to solve something.
Can you play that one again?
Many of my doodles are inspired by bits and pieces of conversations I had. This one was drawn sometime in 2003. If I recall correctly, it was spawned when picking a piece of music for a video.
Traveling
I am going to be away for the next 10 days, leaving the site relatively unattended. Thanks to the miracle of scheduled posts, however, there will be some fresh content coming out.
The Doodles&Noodles bonanza continues as every other day you will be presented with another sketch from my notebooks.
Additionally, be on a lookout for a very special four episode miniseries of Adventures of the Bici Bee featuring guest appearance by Kotoko the Kamikaze Sponge Ninja Assassin! Trust me, it’s big and you don’t wanna miss it!
If the fresh scheduled content is not enough, feel free to dig in the archives dating back all the way to 2002, check out the video tutorials, read some articles in brainstorm or post some comments around the site.
See you in 10 days!
Bilgi Meeting
Another one drawn during the seemingly endless department meetings at the university (back in 2003). I decided not to clean this up, since some parts of the doodle are related to the notebook markings.
Tutorial: Alphabet Soup (Fake Text Particles)
In this After Effects tutorial I will show you how to create a cool underwater opening title sequence. Rather than using Trapcode Particular (which many of you may not have installed) or CC Particle World (which really could use an update to its coordinate system) the project fakes particle simulation through use of text animators.
This quite lengthy tutorial is derived from another Video Bits project I created a while ago. The original Alphabet Soup used Particular and wasn’t much more than an eye-candy. The new-and-improved one I present to you today can actually be used for something else than ambient displays :)
Let me also give the credit where it is due: The preview video uses an audio clip from Lech Janerka’s song entitled Absolulu. I have been listening to it all day long and I can still take more.
Running time: 66min
Difficulty: Medium (as long as you’re patient)
Required tools: After Effects
Prayer for Rainbow
Some people pray for rain, some pray for rainbows. Found this one in one of 2001 notebooks.
And you would be?…
Ah, the good old soft brush-tipped markers. I bought a set back in 2003 and drew this on the opening page of a brand new notebook. Unfortunately you won’t see many more of these as I used the markers on storyboards and never bothered to buy more.
Tutorial: HolOS Password Hacking
Password hacking is usually presented as a quite dull process in Hollywood visuals. It is even more dull in real life. In this tutorial I will show you my take on a HolOS password hacking interface – spicing it up with After Effects 2.5D crossword puzzle look.
The idea for this tutorial comes from one of the Video Bits projects published back in 2008: Crossword Hax. I think enough time has passed since I created that effect, so I decided to share it with the community.
Running time: 41min
Difficulty: Advanced
Required tools: After Effects
Optional tools: Trapcode Horizon