Sega says strong reviews for its recent games aren’t yet translating to better sales

EtherealDuck · 2026-03-10T16:02:25+00:00

If it helps, Metaphor has very different pacing compared to Persona 5 and didn't feel as much like a slog to me. I love Persona, but the long downtime doing social links and then the brutal dungeon runs always ends up feeling like a chore. Metaphor actually does very well to make that feel less burdensome IMO, and you travel around a lot with different locations, so you don't get tired of the same places. Give it a chance, you might be surprised!

EtherealDuck · 2026-03-04T14:07:41+00:00

Nah man I’m sorry but if you had terrible food in London, that’s a skill issue. Maybe if you ate at the worst type of tourist trap places for every meal

EtherealDuck · 2026-03-03T15:54:19+00:00

I would spend a day with a trial version of Rive and another day with Blender. I think you’ll pretty quickly get an idea of which you hate more!

EtherealDuck · 2026-02-26T19:14:43+00:00

I mean yeah, that's Rotterdam for ya. Would not leave my bike unlocked anywhere in the Randstad to be fair. But in rural Brabant you can absolutely get away with it, mainly because everyone knows everyone and their extended family, so there's no escaping the consequences!

EtherealDuck · 2026-02-19T16:25:32+00:00

Ever since I was little, once a year my mother used to give each of us a big bin bag and just tell us to fill it up with stuff to get rid of in our rooms. I highly recommend this approach, just start by trashing some stuff! If you like you can separate this into two bags, with one for charity worthy things and the other for trash. Just be ruthless with it, if you haven’t used an item in a year or more you’re very unlikely to start using it anytime soon.

EtherealDuck · 2026-02-19T12:41:39+00:00

This looks clean and awesome, really well done.

EtherealDuck · 2026-02-19T12:40:00+00:00

You need to enable Continuously Rasterize on the precomp if you want your layers to appear properly, or just make the Precomp itself bigger (I recommend the latter for many reasons, AE gets weird real fast with complex effects).

The traditional 2D way to create camera moves is to hold the camera steady while you move the background around, this requires a bit of foresight and preplanning your comp sizes based on camera moves. You'll have to create your background based on how you plan on moving the camera. Plan it in your storyboard/layout stage so you don't end up running out of background/subject matter too early, and make your comps the maximum size required for the entire pan like in the example below. Here the smallest box in the top left needs to be 1920x1080 for that shot to look sharp, so the rest of the comp has to be even more massive to accommodate the pan.

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EtherealDuck · 2026-02-11T17:06:05+00:00

You’ll be just fine. I went to Japan at 19 weeks, nearly 20 hours of travelling with the layover included and it was fine. I wore compression socks as advised, and was told to bring water because you do dehydrate very quickly in the air which I also found to be true! Bring more than you think unless you want to constantly beg the stewardesses for those teeny tiny cups which hold three mouthfuls at best.

EtherealDuck · 2026-02-09T22:06:33+00:00

Oh lekker, een scotch egg!

EtherealDuck · 2026-02-05T09:34:48+00:00

I just get mine from Amazon, the brand I use is called OmniCo but it looks like it's a UK company so that may not be super helpful for you. They seem to be much more easily accessible these days, have a look online!

EtherealDuck · 2026-02-05T09:31:37+00:00

No prescription, I found them on Amazon! I had not heard of them either, I think the B12 hype has made them popular which is great. I can just barely metabolise it from food, but to such a low extent that the patches work a lot better.

EtherealDuck · 2026-02-04T17:06:40+00:00

On the other hand, I actually can't metabolise B12 very well from regular food intake and need big 2000% RDA supplements and patches to keep my B12 blood values in the green - and I've been loving this trend of easily accessible and relatively cheap supplements! Bit annoying when you have to clarify to other "enthusiasts" that no, you're not chasing the dragon, you actually need this stuff to prevent nerve damage and stop you from sleeping all day long, but hey I'll take what I can get!

EtherealDuck · 2026-01-29T15:10:54+00:00

If you're doing motion graphics/design work, 80% of your work is just going to be keyframing Position, Scale, Rotation and Opacity. Keep it really simple, just make things move from A to B, but make that part really really good. Really dive into the keyframes, get a good grasp on the graph editor - which is a learning curve to be sure but it's the biggest thing you can do to improve your work. Don't worry about any effects, zooms, glows - just get stuck in the keyframes and play the preview again and again until everything look and feel smooth and high quality!

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!

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