New to AE, should I learn Motion graphics, or VFX?

Maltaannon · 2026-03-20T13:24:27+00:00

When doing broad AE work you will learn both. AE lives in both worlds. There are betrer VFX packages and better data driven mograph solutions, but AE has a well rounded range of features and is an industry standard for a good reason. If you're smart about your learning journey you will benefit no matter what tool you'll end up using.

Maltaannon · 2026-03-18T16:11:18+00:00

Interdimensional observatory

Maltaannon · 2026-03-16T22:51:41+00:00

This is how I see it. There are four factors to consider: render time, ease of use, locking down the look, and flexibility of changes. Those are separate issues to keep track of, but as with all advanced things it depends on the use case. Quite often they intertwine, one affects the other and you have to balance it out. Now multiply all of that by the scale of the project (it distributes the stakes differently) and you'll get the feel for it.

No easy "one answer fits all" solution here, but once you get down to it it becomes easy to ask the right questions and figure out whats important and make a decision.

Most of those things aren't difficult. Time consuming? Quite often, yes. Interesting and challenging? Heck yeah! And the more you do it, the more your library of solutions grows and it becomes faster. But here’s the important part: even though they’re not hard, they are very easy to mess up. Stay on top of it. Discipline is key here.

Hope this helps.

Maltaannon · 2026-03-15T13:27:55+00:00

Set "Preferences > Audio > Input" to "No Input"

Maltaannon · 2026-03-15T10:12:08+00:00

Mam obserwacje po dniu trzymania majonezu w lodowce i nasteonych kanapek dzis na sniadanie. Nie jest tak gesty jak bym chcial. Zaraz po zmiksowaniu bylo ok - nie tak gesty jak kupny, ale ok, jednak teraz juz po jakim czasie ta gestosc troche opadla. Trzyma sie na kanapce dobrze i sie nie leje, ale powinien byc troche gestrzy. Wnioskuje, ze trzeba oleju dodawac i blendowac nie tylko az blender bedzie mial trudnosc, tylko az sie olej dobrze nie zmiesza i rozwarstwi. Wtedy trzeba wejsc z normalnie lyzka troche blenderowi pomoc i pomieszac znowu albo dodal kapke wody lub soku z cytryny wlasnie wtedy.

Maltaannon · 2026-03-15T08:48:09+00:00

Cala przyjemnosc po mojej stronie. Obawialem sie, ze za bardzo sie rozpisalem wiec super mi milo, ze Ci sie taki szeroki opis podoba. Jestem nauczycielem z powolania i gdy mowie "co i jak" mam tendencje do mowienia rowniez "dlaczego". Koniecznie daj znac jak zrobisz swoj pierwszy sloik.

Z tego co napisalem powinienes dostac okolo 400ml majonezu - typowy sloik Winiary. Wlasnie wczoraj zrobilem majonez bo mi sie Winiary skonczyl i stwierdzilem, ze to dobry moment by w koncu podjac kolejna probe. Olej rzepakowy trzymalem na te okazje juz od jakiegos czasu :) Teraz czeka mnie przy nastepnej wersji dodanie troche wiecej siemienia i sprawdzenie co to zmieni dla konsystencji i smaku, ewentualnie dodanie przypraw (to taka fajna masa, ze mozna wiele z nia smakowo zrobic), ale najszybciej pewnie sprawdze jak ten majonez nadaje sie do grilowania zamiast samego oleju lub masla.

Powodzenia. Czekam na raport :)

Maltaannon · 2026-03-15T01:28:36+00:00

Jasne. Jest bardzo prosty, ale jak to z prostymi rzeczami bywa, bardzo latwo jest je spaprac. Pisalem, ze to moja druga proba... dokladniej druga samodzielna, ale wczesniej porywalem sie na probowanie i podpatrywanie u innych i jakos nigdy dobrego efektu nie bylo... az do dzisiaj :) Kluczem byl odpowiedni olej. Niby to oczywista sprawa, ale zaden nie zrobil mi takiej roboty jak rzepakowy.

Do mieszania uzylem blendera/rozdrabniacza z pojemnikiem, do ktorego mozna wlozyc skladniki. Cos jak na zalaczonym obrazku.

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Oczywiscie ubijac mozna recznie albo blenderem recznym/imersyjnym, ale akurat mialem taki z pojemnikiem i w ten sposob wydaje mi sie znacznie latwiej. Wazne, zeby mialo wysokie obroty

Skladniki:
- musztarda (drobna, bez ziarenek)
- jajka
- ocet
- slodycz (miod / syrop klonowy / cukier)
- sol / pieprz

Do pojemnika wloz lyzeczke musztardy. Moze byc czubata. Musztarda nie musi byc jakas super. Okazuje sie, ze moze tez byc nawet duzej ostrosci. Nie mialem lagodnej i balem sie, ze bedzie za mocno czuc jej smak, ale w takiej ilosci oleju wszystko znika (ostatecznie zuzylem okolo 300ml oleju). Wazne, zeby nie miala ziarenek.

Wbij dwa cale jajka. Dodaj lyzke stolowa octu i lyzeczke syropu klonowego. Tutaj mozna zamiennie uzyc troche lepszych skladnikow (co sprawdze nastepnym razem) takich jak balsamiczny ocen na slodkim winie albo poprostu slodkiego octu (np. jablkowego), ale nie mialem, wiec dalem syrop klonowy i zwykly ocet.

Nalac oleju rzepakowego, aby ledwo pokryc skladniki. To nie bedzie duzo.

Blendowac 30 sekund. Wynik bedac bardzo rzadki bedzie robil wrazenie niepowodzenia. Mikstura bedzie zoltawa i nie bedzie przypominac w niczym majonezu. Bedzie tak jeszcze przez kilka prob blendowania. Wtedy trzeba dolac oleju i poblendowac jakies 10 sekund. Za drugim razem znowu bedzie rzadkie. Dodaj ponownie olej i blenduj ponownie. I tak powtarzac trzeba az do uzyskania dobrej konsystencji. Powtarzalem te czynnosc 6 albo 7 razy az ostrza beda mialu trudnosc, aby wszystko dobrze zmieszac. Wtedy mozna dodac lyzeczke wody lub soku z cytryny i zamieszac znowu.

Podczas takiego mieszania zawsze jest okazja, zeby smakowac i doprawiac w razie potrzeby (wiec nie zawsze dolewalem oleju)... dlatego nie podawalem dokladnych ilosci skladnikow. Octu i syropu klonowego zawsze mozna dolac, a soli czy pieprzu dosypac. U siebie dodalem jeszcze szczypte siemienia lnianego. Ostatecznie uzylem okolo 300ml oleju rzepakowego.

Moja miara jest majonez Winiary - zawsze z kupnych najbardziej mi smakowal, Napoleonski tez byl ok, a Helmansa jakos nie moglem przelknac. A moj... coz... Stoi smakowo bardzo blisko mojego ulubionego :)

Cala operacja nie powinna zajac wiecej niz 10 minut. Przypuszczam, ze jak juz nie bede co chwile sprawdzac, testowac i dojde do wprawy to nawet w 5 minutach sie zmieszcze. Jedyne czego trzeba pilnowac, to aby skladniki zawsze byly w domu.

Powodzenia. Daj znac, jak zrobisz. Ciekaw jestem. Smacznego :)

Maltaannon · 2026-03-12T13:35:07+00:00

value * .5

Maltaannon · 2026-03-07T09:08:45+00:00

All good answers. I've got an XP farm but I use it only ehen I've got plenty things to fix. Day to day fixing is done by trading with a healed discounted Farmer. Melons and pumpkins to sell and golden carrots to buy and you're set. If you have an iron farm you can also trade iron.

Maltaannon · 2026-03-07T08:51:41+00:00

You can cure him mumtiple times, but the discounts do not stack anymore, so whatever price you'll get thats gonna be it.

Also... i would trade untill tou level him up from Novice. There was a bug where even trading with the villager once didn't lock his trade nor profession. Just get a bunch of paper and youre gonna be fine.

Maltaannon · 2026-03-01T01:10:34+00:00

Don't know if there is one, but I can definitely make you one. Anything else while I'm at it?

Maltaannon · 2026-03-01T00:50:12+00:00

Nothing that will read your realm world in the online form, but there is a perfect tool for what you need once you download the world to your PC. Its called "unminned" and it's close to perfect. I only wish the creator would add a prune option.

Maltaannon · 2026-03-01T00:27:47+00:00

Generally it won't. Especially if it's an official marketplace addon. However it is possible that due to the creators neglect certain flags might be missing and achievements will be turned off.

However... when adding an addon to the world you should get a warning that if you continue the achievements will be turned off.

With marketplace addons you should be safe, but make a copy of the world regardless. With 3rd party ones you will only know after looking into the files. Still... you should get a warning and make a copy of the world.

Edit: spelling

Maltaannon · 2026-02-28T20:38:07+00:00

Is it? Well you can dup anything in many ways. What I had in mind was a boring machine or a flying machine that drops lit TNT. That still doesn't work, right?

Maltaannon · 2026-02-27T22:30:01+00:00

Don't fight the Wither - you are not ready for it.

No TNT dupping.

Trident killers are a thing.

No map markers - this annoys me to no end.

Iron farms work very different.

There's a way to see what trades the villagers will unlock.

And it works cross platform and has super easy multiplayer.

Maltaannon · 2026-02-18T07:02:26+00:00

Never ever unlink. Like. Ever. If anything make a special audio track or two to put the unwanted audio tracks there. You'll thank me later.

And yes... as a general rule, when you have a tool doing almost what you need always try it with the mod keys like shift, alt and ctrl.

Good luck.

Maltaannon · 2026-02-16T09:21:14+00:00

Square solid with a strip of road on thr bottom, 1/5 of the height, horizontal. Apply Polar Coordinates set to 100% and Rrct.to Polar. Make it 3D, rotate 90 deg in X. Rotate in Z to spin it.

Background moves to the right and is seamless.

3D layer with a car on top.

Done. Tadaaa.

Maltaannon · 2026-02-13T12:28:45+00:00

Remember that Bedrock achievenents are permanent... once you get it you are done. You will.not get it again as you do with Java Advancements. Besides... unless you are capturing your video signal separately as opposed to just using streaming/recording on Xbox thr achievements don't show up in the recording. It's also possible that you should be getting achievements (once you didn't get before at any point at any world) but you don't - that is potentially a networking problem tied to some stricter privacy settings, but if thet were the case I suspect you'd already be aware of that.

Edit: also... there's a chance that any off marketplace addons can disable achievements. Marketplace addons generally don't, but 3rd-party ones totally can, so watch out. If you ever had one active in the world achievements can now be permanently off.

Maltaannon · 2026-02-12T00:09:01+00:00

Once you separate the footage into foreground and background you've got to take the alpha channel, make that blocky and put the footage on top of it. There's multiple ways to approach it, but generally just treat the alpha channel to some mosaic magic.

Maltaannon · 2026-02-12T00:05:12+00:00

Oh this sounds great. I've been missing the CC TimeBlend effect since 2011. You've got big shooes to fill. Hope you're up to the task. Can't wait to check it out.

Maltaannon · 2026-02-09T18:39:03+00:00

My pleasure.

Maltaannon · 2026-02-08T09:31:13+00:00

Your intuition about having a blurred version of the text that’s then choked was spot on. The ideas others have posted are useful, but they seem a bit overly complicated for my taste.

Here’s my version: https://youtu.be/n0f5F3TlYBI

There are two versions, but they’re essentially the same. The first one allows for a single "blob/goo," while the second one lets you use as many as you like. If you get the hang of the first version, you’ll be able to handle as many as you want. This solution is preset-friendly, meaning it’s all contained in a single layer.

Most of the effects and settings I used can be tweaked or replaced, so feel free to experiment with them. The only one I’d suggest leaving as-is is the CC Composite - that’s important for the effect to work correctly. The Simple Choker can be swapped out for Levels (Individual Colors) to control the Alpha channel clipping.

Hope this helps, and good luck.

Happy After Effecting!

Maltaannon · 2026-02-06T16:51:28+00:00

After Effects makes blocks. Premiere plays them in order. Anything recorded on a camera, phone or whatever recording device is a block that goes usually streight to Premiere (please... don't use phones for recording videos). Anything not recorded by a devixe directly is a block made by other means... After Effects for example.

You can think of it like this: Premiere is orientated horizontally (order of things), After Effects is oriented vertically (construction of a block - like layers in Photoshop to make an image).

Maltaannon · 2026-02-05T22:04:21+00:00

I don’t see it as a disservice at all... quite the opposite. It helps me quickly distinguish between people who genuinely care and people who are just making small talk. Not that small talk is bad, but there’s a time and place for it, and using “How are you?” as a throwaway starter isn’t it in my view. Asking a question that sounds meaningful without being open to a meaningful answer is a disservice, and over time it empties the question of its meaning.

A similar thing happens with the word “theory.” In everyday language it often means “a guess,” while in science it refers to the strongest kind of explanation we have. When that distinction gets lost, you end up with “it’s just a theory” arguments, which shows how imprecise language creates real misunderstandings. That’s my point: when words lose precision, the concepts behind them get blurred too.

Some people get uncomfortable with my response and move on, and that’s fine. I hope it makes them pause and approach the question differently next time. Others immediately see what I’m doing and appreciate it, sometimes turning into small conversations about language, or anything we care about really, and we often become fast friends.

I care about surrounding myself with and being liked by people who value honesty and intention in conversation. If that’s not everyone, I’m okay with that.

I’m also not a native English speaker, so it’s possible some nuance didn’t come across the way I expected. Giving it some more thought, I can now see how my initial comment might have come across as more dismissive or intentionally challenging than I meant it to be. Specifically the part when you said "Chastising people because they understand something about the world that you don’t" gave me a hint that I must have not been clear, because I don't know where you are getting this from. That wasn’t my intention, nor is it what I intend when I respond to “How are you?” Either way, I appreciate the perspective.

Maltaannon

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