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Bici Bee #150: Watermelon

July 19, 2011WebcomicBi,Ci,summer,bee,tasty,Bici,Cici,fruit,watermelon,guart

It's Summer, season for watermelons, cherries and all that good stuff. Why not release a new Bici comic?

Preset+Tutorial: Stop Motion Kit

June 20, 2011Motion,Tutorials&Presets,FeaturedAfter Effects,expressions,Adobe,preset,download,motion,tool,free,stop,kit

In this tutorial I will show you how to quickly simulate stop motion aesthetic using my After Effects Stop Motion Kit. This collection of presets will allow you to easily add subtle imperfections to the movement of objects in your scene, emulating animator errors that are a staple of stop motion animation. Using 6 different expression sets, you will be able to apply and control glitches in movement, rotation and timing of your objects as well as simulate changes in camera position and exposure.

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Reel 2011

June 17, 2011Featured,Motion,Announcements,imago,Video Bitsgraphics,director,directing,animator,vfx,demo,animation,motion,editing,design,reel,2D,3D

Here is my personal reel for June 2011, featuring pieces I have directed, edited, animated and designed in the recent years.

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Macula Lutea

June 9, 2011Featured,Video Bits,MotionOptical Flares,Video Copilot,experimental,optics,slower,800%,U Smile,Nick Pittsinger,Justin Bieber,flares,slow,abstract,color,light,Adobe,After Effects

Macula Lutea started as a happy accident - I've been working on one of the projects and wrote a small script to control the movement of the lens flare. Due to the calculation error (my bad) the light source ended up in completely wrong spot, resulting in highly exaggerated flare on the screen. Rather than discard the mistake, I decided to pursue intentionally misusing flares and discovered an entire world of cool abstract imagery that can be created in this style.

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Liquid Lifeforms

June 5, 2011Video Bits,Motionsimulation,Cinema 4D,After Effects,Adobe,Maxon,dynamics,softbody,creature,C4D,rigid body,latex,slime,disturbing

Liquid Lifeforms is a short experiment in Cinema 4D softbody dynamics. Visuals were inspired and edited to the audio track Beazt, created by disconnectuser.

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Sun Ich: Purely Fruit

May 25, 2011Telesine,Featured,Motionorange,Phantom,slow motion,shot,Sun Ich,fruit,juice,live action,commercial,demo,TVC,advertisement,ad,Adobe,After Effects

This project was my first venture into the world of slow motion demo shots, and a pretty successful one, if I may judge it myself. It's been shot over the course of 24hrs on Phantom HD and edited in my standard After Effects environment.

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Tim Minchin: Storm

April 24, 2011Motion,Found Around,Moviestypography,film,movie,storm,retro,animation,short,Tim Minchin,DC Turner,poem,performance,motion graphics

Over a year ago I posted a trailer for a fantastic animated short entitled Storm. The film was to be written and performed by Tim Minchin and directed by DC Turner and scheduled for release in 2010. They year has gone and passed and I assumed the film was cancelled. Apparently I haven't followed it closely enough. The film was released in festivals in 2010 - and in April 2011 it premiered on YouTube.

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Portal 2: Just the beginning?

April 23, 2011Gotta Play,Gamesgenerated,DLC,guess,speculation,editor,chamber,Steam,Portal 2,mod,software,Games,user,content,Valve,Portal,Game,map

The game is launched, single player and co-op campaigns are played through... I believe not. In this article I am going to speculate on what I believe is yet to come. Please, keep in mind that I am writing it assuming you have finished the game and therefore all matter of spoilers are to be found in the following paragraphs. If you haven't played Portal 2 yet, do yourself a favor and do it first. If you don't mind, however, hear out what I think is coming soon.

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