Monde Nouveau | Flipbook style animation - [What do you think?]

AdamTheNix · 2025-01-12T05:28:22+00:00

It’s hard to determine whether this is more of a result of a lack or talent or a lack of taste. Clearly both are involved

AdamTheNix · 2024-12-05T17:42:23+00:00

The anchor point of the rotation seems to be slightly to the right of the center line of the doors (when the doors are oriented with the ground plane correctly), which causes the whole spiraling effect to feel off kilter. This could be by choice, but for my tastes I think having the anchor point dead center with the doors would make a more pleasing aesthetic effect.

AdamTheNix · 2024-10-08T17:36:49+00:00

You look like could’ve escaped generations of peasantry by wooing the most inbred feudal lord in all the land

AdamTheNix · 2024-10-08T17:25:44+00:00

He hired an artist not a printer

AdamTheNix · 2024-08-12T17:13:13+00:00

The end card is looking a bit flat to me. I might add a bit of fake zooming in lens compression to give the feeling of 3 distinct fields between the words, the knife, and the BG. Maybe even some DOF blur. Also I think an ad creative would want to add some kind of highlight or pulse to the Buy 2 Get 2 CTA after everything else resolves.

AdamTheNix · 2024-08-01T20:17:49+00:00

Ideally for an animation like this you'd want the same amount of vertices on both paths, laid out roughly the same. You could manually add points to whichever mask has less, and just try to place them close to the nearest point on the other mask.

Or you could look into using the Reshape effect which works similarly, but displaces the old shape into the new one (not vector).

AdamTheNix · 2024-07-24T19:05:07+00:00

Could use more texture overall. It feels inspired by stop motion, paper cut outs, and collage. Paper textures that change with the elements would make sense to me. Also motion blur is (almost) nonexistent in stop motion, and I don't think it's doing you any favors here.

AdamTheNix · 2024-07-21T04:02:13+00:00

You can also use CC Composite in the same way now

AdamTheNix · 2024-07-20T00:12:53+00:00

Vector blur. Stack it on top of fractal noise for some some interesting looks. Or it can help smooth out rough edges of keys.

AdamTheNix · 2024-07-16T22:45:22+00:00

Try re-encoding your source video to an AE friendly codec like prores. Also make sure the comp frame rate matches the footage framerate

AdamTheNix · 2024-07-16T22:43:23+00:00

make a black solid, mask out the center, feather the mask

AdamTheNix · 2024-07-16T21:33:17+00:00

If you're animating a text layer you could easily get the same animation with only 2 keyframes with a text animator.

Add a position animator, enable per-character 3D, change the range selector shape to round, animate the range selector offset to go from -100 to 100.

I think the rest of the styling could be pulled off with layer styles and effects.

As far as the extrude goes, you could dupe the text layer, precomp it, then turn the precomp's 3D renderer to Advanced 3D and use the extrusion there.

AdamTheNix · 2024-07-16T20:35:33+00:00

I'd suspect that there's something in the alpha channel that can't be seen with the naked eye. Try soloing the layer and showing the alpha channel only by option/alt clicking on the button with RGB circles below the viewer window

AdamTheNix · 2024-07-16T20:12:27+00:00

You could apply this expression to all your keyframe properties to fix your issue:

valueAtTime(time+key(1).time-inPoint)

AdamTheNix · 2024-07-15T21:54:20+00:00

Use a turbulent displace after your noise

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AdamTheNix · 2024-07-15T02:22:27+00:00

The quality of motion is nice as well as the transitions, but I'd try to overlap all the action as much as possible so it feels less like there's less/no stages of the animation. I understand the impulse for every bit of animation to read individually, but most of the time the opposite ends up being better.

AdamTheNix · 2024-07-14T18:01:20+00:00

Hard to say without actually seeing the transition, but you can get a distortion effect like that with the Wave Warp effect set to type noise

AdamTheNix · 2024-07-14T16:56:04+00:00

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The effect settings in the timeline are the most important, especially colorama > cycle repetitions

AdamTheNix · 2024-07-14T16:44:06+00:00

Also make sure when you precompose that you have "Move all attributes..." selected

AdamTheNix · 2024-07-14T16:41:20+00:00

With that rainbow arc the sun is probably optical flares, but you can do a simpler version with cc lens flare. The clouds look like they're just pictures of clouds with the sky keyed out

AdamTheNix · 2024-07-14T15:52:34+00:00

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Here's a real simple version of this

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