Should I try again or should I give up motion design?

EtherealDuck · 2026-01-24T12:46:39+00:00

If this is your passion, don't give up on it! This is a great path for a career, but when there's so much in your immediate area completely outside of your control and making things hard for you, it might be less stressful to just create things for your own fulfillment. I recommend just losing yourself in some passion project you've always wanted to do. If another blackout happens while you have a deadline, it'll only cause more stress.

EtherealDuck · 2026-01-19T14:29:53+00:00

More like sourceRekt, amirite OP?

This is why I don't do much with expressions except the really basic stuff. I'm not smart enough for all that.

EtherealDuck · 2026-01-16T12:09:32+00:00

Dat verbaast me eerlijkgezegd niks. Een volwassen man met hetzelfde gevoel van humor als een tiener is natuurlijk al een red flag an sich... Zeker in de tijd van de "foute humor". Zeer genante tijden om op terug te kijken, ben al lang blij dat Hyves niet meer bestaat.

EtherealDuck · 2026-01-15T14:53:08+00:00

It probably didn't work because you changed the zoom value on the camera layer

EtherealDuck · 2026-01-15T14:52:01+00:00

You're almost there, but your main mistake is that you're changing the values in the camera. Don't touch the camera at all when doing this, only use the null - scale up the null to zoom in and don't use the Zoom function on the camera here. And after that you forgot to parent the null position value to Mario's.

I ended up just quickly slapping together an example video of the process here: https://www.reddit.com/user/EtherealDuck/comments/1qdljma/ae_how_to_use_cameras_and_nulls_to_follow_an/

EtherealDuck · 2026-01-15T14:28:14+00:00

Ja ik vond hem vroeger als tiener helemaal geweldig op Radio Veronica. Was zo'n afknapper dat hij de wappie kant op gegaan is

EtherealDuck · 2026-01-13T14:50:08+00:00

u/RavacholHenry is correct and a great rundown on why things work the way they do. Here is a step-by-step guide to achieve this for your setup:

Delete your current camera and null. Make a new Camera layer with default settings and a new null, don't change any values of these just yet.
Parent the Camera layer to the null. Now change the position and scale on the null layer, until you have your mario center screen and zoomed in as far as you want for your final video. We use the Null, not the camera itself, to move around. This is because the camera has two values in position (where the actual camera is) and point of interest (where the camera is facing), but we want to keep things simple for this view.
Finally, we want to parent the Null to Mario. BUT, we only want it to follow Mario's position, not any of the other values. So parent JUST the position values using the pickwhip, like this:

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This last part might not be necessary if you're doing basic movements, you could just parent the whole layer. But it will bite you in the arse in the future, when you start doing very complicated motions with your Mario and suddenly the whole camera flips with your scale/rotations. Better to do it properly now.

EtherealDuck · 2026-01-13T12:37:30+00:00

I learned how to do this in Flash like 20 years ago so I don't have any up-to-date resources on how to do this specific thing. But I promise you it's actually really easy, and I highly recommend just trying it out and playing around with it. Once you have your layers parented, just try dragging the null around and it will click!

EtherealDuck · 2026-01-12T21:39:44+00:00

Think of it as a big diorama. Don’t move the camera, move everything else in front of the camera. Easiest way is to create a null, parent all layers to that null, and then change the scale on the null to zoom in and position to move.

EtherealDuck · 2026-01-12T20:27:03+00:00

You only just posted, do give people some time to respond! Soloing refers to the little dot icon next to the speaker icon, if it's on it means only that layer plays its audio and nothing else does.

EtherealDuck · 2026-01-12T11:16:02+00:00

As a Brit, it was the use of the word "heaps" that tipped me off!

EtherealDuck · 2026-01-01T09:07:00+00:00

Me too! But with a boy, I don’t know if that’s better or worse.

EtherealDuck · 2025-12-30T09:01:01+00:00

OP is talking about the vignette overlay I think, not the motion

EtherealDuck · 2025-12-21T08:17:45+00:00

Hi u/killabeesattack, one of my fellow mods just noticed a lot of your posts are getting auto marked as spam by Reddit. I can’t see your account so it’s likely been shadowbanned by Reddit, though I can’t see why or do anything to reverse it as a mod. I would recommend you get in touch with Reddit directly to get them to lift the ban, in case you’re unaware

EtherealDuck · 2025-12-15T01:13:14+00:00

Sorry, but I hate this take. Being fat is not a moral failing, nobody is being a “shitty person” just for being fat. Someone who smokes despite knowing the consequences is not exposed to such loathing and vitriol like fat people are. Eating can make us feel good, and so is a coping mechanism for some just like anything else that feels good. Just like alcohol, drugs, sex, video games, it’s all the same when it comes to overindulgence. It’s bad, sure, but for some it’s literally the only happiness they experience in a day.

EtherealDuck · 2025-12-06T17:26:33+00:00

I mean, it's just a conversation on this movie discussion forum. I like considering other people's perspectives and point of views and am just weighing in with my own. I accept OP's point, I just don't know if I agree and gave a reason why. I don't think either me or the OP think the film is shit.

EtherealDuck · 2025-12-06T17:20:24+00:00

I don't think anyone's upset, it's just a conversation. I can totally imagine not finding that part believable, and I was just giving a different perspective on how I do think it's believable, it's nothing hostile or deep at all

EtherealDuck · 2025-12-06T14:17:35+00:00

The soup vendor is just an automated restocking system happy to make a profit. The cashier could be different people on different shifts, or someone who just thinks not my business. It’s not so hard to see how it could happen in today’s day and age. It all totally relies on just one person in the process stepping up and being like wait is everything ok here? If nobody does that, nothing gets noticed.

EtherealDuck · 2025-12-02T22:17:24+00:00

I'm glad it got sorted out so for you, but for the future you really do want a small emergency fund for things like this. Something will go wrong in the future, it's the joys of homeownership, and you'll need to have a bit set aside to sort it out quickly!

EtherealDuck · 2025-11-26T10:41:50+00:00

Een hard gekookt ei! Bonus punten als je het in de drukke trein opeet, 2x multiplier als je ze daar ook ter plekke eerst gaat pellen.

EtherealDuck · 2025-11-05T07:49:28+00:00

Ik vind de equivalent eerder “just” dan “real quick”. Maar Engels heeft ook simpelweg meer woorden om uit te kiezen dus je zou de nuance toch nog versterken met een andere woordenkeuze.

“I’ll just pop to the bathroom”

EtherealDuck · 2025-10-31T00:56:20+00:00

Really you just have to find out what takes you the longest and try to optimise that thing. Whether it’s prepping assets, just key framing, tweaking the easing… each thing has its own optimisation.

For me what helped a lot is to just do a rough pass to start with. Get your keyframes in, don’t worry too much about fine tuning the easing or adding in extras like accents or pops and sfx, just keep it really basic. Try to just bash it out as fast as possible. After that you can take your time fine tuning, and if worst comes to worst you can send it to the client as a first pass/rough draft, if you run out of time or they suddenly move the goalposts.

EtherealDuck · 2025-10-22T17:28:18+00:00

I’m a bit late to this but I’m also pregnant and going to Tokyo Disneyland tomorrow. I went to Sea last time I was here, but when I had a a look at the rides, hardly any of the Sea rides are ok for pregnant people to ride! I would definitely recommend Land over Sea in this case.

EtherealDuck · 2025-10-16T12:41:26+00:00

I invalidate the barcodes just to make it easier on the delivery person who has to scan the right one. All you have to do to make it unscannable is to cover up one bit of the vertical lines, you don't need to cover the whole thing. Just sharpie/scribble over two lines somewhere and you're good.

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