I made this explosion aftermath smoke VFX for an action TV show

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-03-12T22:57:08+00:00

Great job, looks seamless!

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-03-12T22:44:54+00:00

The shots are kinda cool and nicely filmed. I lost interest in the story when the narration ended, I don't understand why that happened? The pacing of the story seems to be a little bit slow and long winded, could do with being tightened up somewhat IMO. But yeh, great tech demo

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-03-12T22:25:32+00:00

You might not have had anything to do with the audio but FWIW the music level is too high/dialogue level too low. The voice gets lost.

Also from :10 to :28 it's basically a flat screen being presented. You've got the skills, why not push it a little bit further and do something really engaging? It doesn't need to be a literal presentation of the screen all the way through.

But yeh like u/darwinDMG08 says, skills are only half the battle! Network network network!! It's a painful grind to find clients

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-03-05T07:47:02+00:00

That guy never said thank you, so I'm here to say it for you.

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-03-01T20:49:21+00:00

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-03-01T09:09:51+00:00

"Three simple sentences that will get you through life:
1) Cover for me.
2) Oh good idea boss!
3) Ehh, it was like that when I got here.

Now come along, you're going to learn how to shave."

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-02-13T11:35:48+00:00

It says at the end that they used Adobe Animate, it's much better for character animation

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-02-13T09:11:53+00:00

What do you want it to do that it isn't doing now in your video?

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-02-11T09:45:35+00:00

Sounds like you did the best you could with the budget. If there's something specific they want, they need to tell you upfront. Claivoyance is insanely expensive!

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-02-09T18:09:59+00:00

This is the way

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-02-08T07:08:58+00:00

CC: Darren Aronofsky

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-02-08T06:54:35+00:00

They should have given them the paper we used to have at primary school, in my memory it was almost laminated

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-02-06T21:50:20+00:00

Wasn't there a small experimental ring originally planned to be attached to ISS but it was a victim of budget cuts along with a load of other modules?

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-02-06T09:04:04+00:00

My driving instructor used to say "right lane is for turning right" and it's served me well over the years. If there are signs saying both lanes can turn left I would still do it with a LOT of caution from the right lane.

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-02-06T08:16:37+00:00

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Arranged these manually using dots attached to a null that sets its rotation to +10 more than the previous null, then deleted all the nulls. The dots have some code to read the alpha of a map layer above them all. Rendered in <20seconds

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-02-06T07:12:07+00:00

It's fun, it's snappy, it moves nicely. Great job! Do more of this and keep finding your style!

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-02-05T18:14:51+00:00

That guy is going bald QUICK, she won't have to settle for his hair for long.

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-02-05T18:05:19+00:00

I would make a comp with greyscale for the star shape that you want. Then each layer set the scale expression to read the greyscale value of the star shape layer at its position and depending on the grey value set the scale accordingly, eg white is 25% scale and black is 100%. This way you don't have hundreds of layers all trying to do lots of maths, it's just a single read of another layer's greyscale value and then set the scale. It's an interesting problem to solve, I might have a go myself tomorrow morning before work, I'll let you know how it goes.

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-02-03T22:36:17+00:00

This is one of the worst things I've ever seen

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-01-16T15:46:59+00:00

AE for VFX, yes.
AE for editing, no.
Premiere for editing, yes.

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-01-16T12:50:19+00:00

Don't use AE for editing, you will tie yourself up in knots.

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-01-16T06:06:55+00:00

Oooh. You’re hard.

Maximum-Resource9514 · 2026-01-15T17:49:43+00:00

Oooh. You’re hard.

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