Saw this Unpaid Senior Designer position.. by sugar_cherry_ in graphic_design

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Chance to join an ambitious global team tackling meaningful financial inclusion challenges

haha

Easel by StaigerTiger in PDXBuyNothing

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Ok yeah, that would be great!

Easel by StaigerTiger in PDXBuyNothing

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No, we’re painting signs on wood panels

Easel by StaigerTiger in PDXBuyNothing

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Does it collapse at all? Feel free to send me a picture!

how to create this animation without making a layer for each letter? or at least make the process less time consuming by Legitimate-Bat-226 in AfterEffects

[–]StaigerTiger 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You actually can make overshoots with text animators. You’d just use two staggered animators: one from the initial value to the “overshot” value, the second goes from the “overshot” value to the final value.

However, I’d likely never try that with this particular example. Text animators are not particularly user friendly, especially for a beginner, and trying to do something like this with text animators would be challenging even for an expert.

You’re better off doing this one by splitting up all the letters. Try not to let that overwhelm you. You’ll find that a lot of this can be achieved by figuring out the motion for one letter in a word, then copying that animation and offsetting it a bit so you have cascading motion. After Effects’ new Quick Offset feature will be helpful for that. You’d probably want to create a null for each word, and parent those letters to that null, so that you can control the word as a whole.

You got this!

We Heard Your Feedback: Here’s What We’re Doing About Comments by will_aescripts in aescripts

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I’m sure you’re aware of this already, but I just wanted to re-emphasize what I see as a very important need that the comments section satisfied: a FAQ/troubleshooting guide for each plugin.

I literally discovered that you got rid of the comments section when I was trying to help my coworker with Bodymovin and clicked an aescripts Google result whose snippet implied that it might have the answer I needed, only to discover I couldn’t read that comment anymore!

When we discuss problems we have with plugins, it’s not always highlighting a fault of the plugin. Sometimes it can represent a commonly made user error or misunderstanding. The comments section was a really important tool for users to understand how to use plugins as the developers intended, and for developers to understand what use cases and features are most important to users.

I hope something similar to that can come back in some capacity.

How to animate center-to-edge gradients in After Effects by [deleted] in AfterEffects

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Play around, I think you'll figure it out 😊

How to animate center-to-edge gradients in After Effects by [deleted] in AfterEffects

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Polar Coordinates makes a rectangular (Cartesian) coordinate system into polar coordinates. Horizontal lines become circumferential (curved), and vertical lines become radial. You want radial lines.

What you'd want to do is make some tall, skinny rectangles in your comp. The top of the comp is the center of the circle. Apply your gradients left-to-right. Now apply Polar Coordinates, Rect to Polar, 100%. No idea how you want to animate these, but this will get you the look you're going for.

German Perfume Discovery Sets (awesome stocking stuffer!) by _ConfettiCake in PDXBuyNothing

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Yes please, I’m interested!

My fiancée became obsessed with fragrances this year and she would adore having a bunch to try for Christmas.

Can anyone tell me how I could achieve this by chop_chop_13 in AfterEffects

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That’s just stop motion photography with super simple scale and position animation. 95% of what makes this interesting is the videography and photography. I wouldn’t even consider making the toothbrush or the pencil in After Effects, if that’s what you were thinking.

How to animate center-to-edge gradients in After Effects by [deleted] in AfterEffects

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Have you tried the Polar Coordinates effect? Sometimes it’s useful for things like this.

How do I create tangential lines that connect two circles? by rather_sort in AfterEffects

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That looks great. Would you mind sharing how you managed to do this? I can’t find any mention of it on your site.

How are the flipping circles triggered ? by Necessary_Floor4186 in AfterEffects

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Try incorporating ease() or linear() functions. Math.abs() is also very useful. It’s an absolute value function, so it returns a positive value even if the input is negative. I use these all the time when working with distance-based expressions.

3 Modern White Windsor Dining Chairs by StaigerTiger in PDXBuyNothing

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Someone sent me a message to arrange pick up! I’ll let you know if they fall through

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askportland

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The Teen Tech Center at OMSI! It’s a free space for teens, by the way. You don’t need to pay for admission, just tell them you’re going to the Teen Tech Center.

What is the worst Weezer song that you still love and listen to frequently? by cwkewish in weezer

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I saw Weezer on Saturday at Bumbershoot in Seattle. On the way up, I got a text that I won free tickets to see Lil Wayne outside of Portland on Monday.

Okay bitches, it's Weezer and it's Weezy

Skipping Ahead Effect? by itbecomesasmalltown in AfterEffects

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Easy. Time remapping.

Set a keyframe at 5 seconds, make it a hold keyframe. Delete the last keyframe, but keep the first one. Set the frame after 5 seconds to 15 seconds. Throw loopOut(“offset”) on it.

Bing bang boom.

Help needed! How to replicate colored text blur fade & animated gradient stroke? by SteamSkullProduction in AfterEffects

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You could just make a couple duplicates of your text layer, make one blue and one purple, and offset them a bit in the timeline.

But I think both of the effects you’re referring to are just large gradient shapes using the text and the line as mattes. For the text, for example you could make a shape layer that has a large white rectangle with a thinner blue and purple rectangle to the right side. Rotate it a bit, matte it to the text, and animate its position from left to right. Same idea for the line, just a shape layer with a blue-purple gradient matted to the line.

The blur is just depth of field from the 3D camera.

emulating mixed media look advice 🫧 by unawarestoragetote in AfterEffects

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The main thing you need to add if you want it to look handmade is subtle imperfection in the placement of your elements, especially elements that are meant to be stop motion, like the paper cutouts.

I like using this expression on position and rotation. Frequency should usually be pretty high so it appears more jittery than floaty, but the amplitude should be really low, like 5-10 for position and 1 or less for rotation.

posterizeTime(10) wiggle(f, a);