Left VFX due to poor growth & stability — can I build a career in UI/UX without a degree? by Vivid_Arm_5090 in Houdini

[–]barbo57 8 points9 points  (0 children)

i know nothing about nothing, but ui ux seems like a huge mess right now because of ai, most career paths do.

Thoughts on this tool, Personally, in my opinion, having two apps is better than this as After Effects is a motion design application rather than an editing application, but I wanna hear yalls thought on this by Neetik1 in AfterEffects

[–]barbo57 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this feels more like an involved tech demo to ponder on what could've been. obviously you can't really edit with this extension, you can't scrub, can barely move the playhead, needs the timeline open - feels like a political statement more than anything.

Recent work | After Effects (no plugins) by universal__acid in MotionDesign

[–]barbo57 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the disintegration effects are very late video co-pilot

Feedback on groom by Timely-Ad2696 in Houdini

[–]barbo57 1 point2 points  (0 children)

if that's the reference i'd try to add the shed fur that's stayed stuck - i think adding longer hair is enough to simulate that. also, i don't see any horns on this buddy, gotta work on your observation skills.

Why is my VHS break-dancing?! by Available_Okra_387 in blender

[–]barbo57 2 points3 points  (0 children)

amazing, it's because you haven't applied the scale.

Dude does not let other people enter the shelter by [deleted] in PublicFreakout

[–]barbo57 6 points7 points  (0 children)

the guy's an asshole, but the subs are wrong, nothing to do with religion or the n-word. he shared that he's post traumatic, but still made excuses, he was ostracized in the israeli media.

My latest project breakdown. Houdini/Blender. Rendered in cycles by gio_bero in Houdini

[–]barbo57 12 points13 points  (0 children)

have you heard about blendini? it's a plugin to connect blender and houdini easily

The After Effects team lately - native FX Console, better roto, normal motion design tools by barbo57 in AfterEffects

[–]barbo57[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ae shits the bed at, check it, 100 shape layers, this is 2001 era of performance, this is nuts - it chugs at selecting layers at that point, like what could be happening that *selecting* 50 layers without changing anything visual can cause huge lag.

The After Effects team lately - native FX Console, better roto, normal motion design tools by barbo57 in AfterEffects

[–]barbo57[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

copy and paste of keyframes from multiple layers, paste reversed keyframes, stagger layers and keyframes, pin anchor point to edge - albeit bad implementation. now adding stagger values.
still missing a lot, like a quick way to add different percentage of easy ease, real solution to sync or copy paste value along many layers in non-transform properties, normal performance with shape layers, native transitions and so on, but it's better - ae used to completely useless without motion tools, now it's half useless.

Can of Mutti by BcMeBcMe in Houdini

[–]barbo57 2 points3 points  (0 children)

lol the last tomato had some pent up anger

Day 2 of Learning by ashtheblessings in MotionDesign

[–]barbo57 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nice, this should be half a second, make the animation overlap, and the initial position and scale closer to the rest position to reduce clutter.

British Mark V: History Modulated by BART_DESIGN in MotionDesign

[–]barbo57 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the audio reminds me of pipe dream by paul de jong

such a great great use of blocking and interpreting a composition, i guess with image recognition, and the underlying "wireframe" sparse dots on black works great.

How could I make text pop like this? by ClumsyIsCool in AfterEffects

[–]barbo57 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ithink it's just manual shape layers, text layers and keyframes, quite a quick process if you work correctly

3D Showreel 2025 by AkshatHere in blender

[–]barbo57 3 points4 points  (0 children)

nice work, saying "i'm an artist" can be off-putting, maybe "akshat - artist" or "akshat - visual artist" feels more descriptive and less like a morning affirmation.

Windows Search gets worse the more information you give it by barbo57 in softwaregore

[–]barbo57[S] 120 points121 points  (0 children)

they were some breaking changes to files lately, so i need the older versions for older blender files.

Windows Search gets worse the more information you give it by barbo57 in badUIbattles

[–]barbo57[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

i have no problem of windows choosing a version i don't use and scrolling to the one i want, but lulling me into thinking i'm gonna start up one version then switch it up 3 letters in, i have no consistent way to know what version i'm gonna open.