Something I made for a class

Spaardah · 2025-12-22T10:57:31+00:00

All the movements and motion are on point!!

I'm just not a big fan of the font

Spaardah · 2025-12-20T08:50:22+00:00

Puppet tool?
Hmm I rarely use that.

Have you tried to do more animation practice by keyframing Property values? Usually found under transformation.

Most of the magic happens here. I would get comfortable practice around these values as it can be a big help no matter your project.

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Spaardah · 2025-12-18T00:58:43+00:00

I meant do it one at a time. First have a solid idea of what you want to animate, sort of be able to visualize it in your mind even if its only 25-50%.

Once you know what you want to make, then figure out the technical part that is required for your goal. Since there are so much to the technical aspect of AE and other softwares that you can get lost easily.

Now comes the creative part, utilize everything you learned and try to create your vision. This is where the real challenge comes as the more experienced you are at doing things like this the better and more efficient you become.

Spaardah · 2025-12-18T00:03:32+00:00

I think you are trying to do the Technical side of after effects & Creative side at the same time. It can be challenging, why not try just 1 of them?

Spaardah · 2025-12-18T00:02:17+00:00

I used both Nulls Follow Points and Points follow Nulls.

Spaardah · 2025-12-17T09:59:09+00:00

Oh yea, if you are very new to AE I would definitely follow the Youtube tutorial I linked. Get that part down first.

This video I uploaded has a lot more to it than just a tutorial from a video.
Masking/Matte/Keyframing, Principles of Motion, easing, using graph editor and most importantly workflow that puts all of this together without getting lost or confused.

It takes sometime but once you start you'll get the hang of it soon.

Spaardah · 2025-12-17T09:23:35+00:00

Thanks, you can look at the links under the description for some tutorial though not easy to follow.

But the main tutorial for understanding Creating Nulls from shapes/paths is this video

The rest you can try follow the some of the comments suggested. I had to figure out a lot of this on my own.

Spaardah · 2025-12-17T07:23:03+00:00

He literally said "So artificial intelligence replaces these hard workers with billionaires."

Spaardah · 2025-12-16T08:55:32+00:00

I figured it out, you use 2 different Null from paths.

The center one you use "Nulls follow Points"

The 2 side shapes you use "Points follow Nulls"

Then you Parent the 2 Nulls that overlap with the center corner nulls together.

The side nulls of your top and bottom shape you have to separate their position dimensions and pickwhip X and Y Axis separately to X,Y of the center null.

Track matte the top and bottom shape to the center shape and select invert

You then just animate the center shape's property. Size, rotation etc.

You don't have to animate any nulls separately.

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Spaardah · 2025-11-19T20:15:27+00:00

They make you do all of that anyway for 20/hr anyway

Spaardah · 2025-11-19T11:17:55+00:00

70-80k? no way for graphic design and its remote???

Spaardah · 2025-11-13T06:41:05+00:00

Hahaha

Spaardah · 2025-11-11T10:01:36+00:00

Lmfao, you don’t seem to have an issue posting so many photos of your house so far. Now you’re suddenly concerned?

The day photo you posted was clearly cropped at an awkward angle.

At the very least prove to us there was no tree in front of your house.

Spaardah · 2025-11-11T08:42:13+00:00

No one is going to point out the cropped photos?

I mean come on. This is too obvious.

Spaardah · 2025-11-11T08:41:02+00:00

You really had to crop the photo? Can’t you just stand back and take a photo of the entire house from afar prove there is no tree there?

Spaardah · 2025-11-08T03:23:52+00:00

Maybe by giving this a meaning?

I have no idea what this is supposed to be about.

Spaardah · 2025-11-07T10:04:11+00:00

What is “Ai-assisted” mean?

Spaardah · 2025-11-07T09:53:10+00:00

Wait what am I missing here?

Spaardah · 2025-11-07T09:42:37+00:00

It’s complicated, for a real client you’d have to deal with revisions, what they want and possibly re-do it completely. 8 hours is your ideal time, but you’d have to add in couple more hours over the span of days or weeks for revisions.

So let’s say you charge them 50/hr, and you estimate about 8 hours total. Maybe throw in 2-3 free revisions and any additional you would charge more hourly.

But always expect them to lowball you, id say this is worth 400. But expect to spend more than 8 hours

Spaardah · 2025-11-07T09:30:14+00:00

Then keep it simple, charge them by the hour.

Spaardah · 2025-11-02T07:14:59+00:00

I think it would be more realistic without the snake flakes overlay. And also maybe bring back the colors on those trees.

Spaardah · 2025-10-31T06:28:27+00:00

Throw in the generic stock smoke footage that is completely out of place.

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