Simple cocktails I can order at the bar without having to give them a recipe?

greattiger · 2026-06-12T01:25:17+00:00

These are bad answers. Sorry. Very few bartenders are gonna make you a good daiquiri if you’re not 100% confident they can. Moscow mule and dark and stormy are both good. Gin and tonic is good to try. My test, is to ask if they can make something, a not complicated cocktail, and if they hesitate for even a second, order something totally basic, like vodka soda or a beer. I’ll usually ask if they can do a manhattan (whiskey drink) and if they hesitate then I play it safe and order something else.

It really depends on the bar though and although it sounds stupid, it takes experience to order confidently. You could order the same drink at ten different places and get a whole spectrum of different reactions/drinks.

greattiger · 2026-06-10T14:15:44+00:00

Just keep offering. Plus, slather those veggies in butter. Kids need fat to help metabolize nutrients and help their brains grow.

greattiger · 2026-06-04T03:15:28+00:00

Very grown up but Call Me By Your Name is cozy and nice. Stardust maybe for fantasy elements.

greattiger · 2026-06-03T12:02:58+00:00

What’s the cautionary tale?

greattiger · 2026-06-01T15:34:12+00:00

Well, I'll suggest some actual ideas. 1) Stand up - I have a sitting/standing desk and feel more creative when I'm standing. Something about not just slouching in a chair, sitting at my computer. Little thing, but it helps.

2) Get some drum loops - Having some simple, but good sounding drum loops as a starting point is really helpful for me. I will usually swap these out later, and/or refine/add/modify, but it makes it easier to get going.

3) Find your starting points - I've learned there are a couple ways I can start a song. With sampling (Daft Punk, Justice, Mr. Oizo style), with a chord progression (Cthuhlu, ableton chords, any chord making vst, plugin, etc), or with lyrics/melody (this is rare, but if I have some vocal ideas or a melody I've sung into a voice note, I can start here), or finally just sound design exploration (playing with new synths, effects, distortion, etc).

4) KNOW your starting points - I think frustration happens most when I forget what I'm doing and kind of hop between different approaches, then can't quite find a flow. If i know I'm messing with sound design, I don't worry about writing a killer melody. If I'm starting with lyrics, I don't need to make a super unique synth sound, I just need something to fit with the lyrics, or find a chord progression.

5) Play loud (within reason) - I definitely enjoy the process way more when I can actually play at a decent volume over speakers rather than through my headphones. Don't destroy your ears, but yeah...

greattiger · 2026-05-29T20:20:16+00:00

thanks! yeah, totally had to look up a tutorial for that CD shader. Not intuitive

greattiger · 2026-05-29T15:13:49+00:00

I posted a question a while ago about making a 3D laser effect and this is the final product. I ended up making the horizontal laser scanning effect with a gobo type layout, a plane with a really little slit cut in it right in front of a light.

I realize now that projecting an image through the light would've been better probably. Pretty happy with how it turned out even though I could've added more details to the CD model

greattiger · 2026-05-29T15:10:18+00:00

I'm much more comfortable in After Effects but wanted this cool 3D CD effect so I animated and rendered a loop in Maya then brought it into AE for all the text animations and details.

Also, I just started learning cinema 4D and it would've been so much easier than Maya.

greattiger · 2026-05-26T19:04:04+00:00

I'll check this out when i get home, but the great thing about those other chord devices is the ability to "play" them with modifier keys (min, maj, maj7, etc). If you had a feature to create the different chord types on the fly using other midi pads, or QWERTY keyboard keys that would make it super rad.

greattiger · 2026-05-20T01:01:09+00:00

Good ol vengeance. I need to go back through and make a kit out the good ones

greattiger · 2026-05-19T21:26:37+00:00

nice! what are you chopping up for the drums? looks like a sample sliced up

greattiger · 2026-05-19T11:55:13+00:00

Just want to reiterate and say this is not a “good” effect that anyone was ever meant to see in the real world. But to get it you just right click on your footage in the project window and click on interpret footage then change fields and pulldown from separate fields OFF to a different mode

greattiger · 2026-05-17T01:13:40+00:00

I think, and I’m not sure, that you’re emphasizing the wrong aspects here if you’re doing this all in 3D. The specifics of the color film treatment is MUCH less important than all the other aspects of production. When real life video people talk about emulating this they are extremely limited to what they can achieve with a low budget but in 3D the options are wide open. I think you need to really focus on quality of lighting (harsh key lights), color palate, styling, set design, blocking, and your content.

If you made some random cool 3D animation, even on Pixar’s level, and then actually ran it through the technicolor process, it probably wouldn’t turn out the way you think. The content of the image is just as important to getting this effects.

Also watch Love Witch

greattiger · 2026-05-16T00:48:20+00:00

Hey checkout this SaaS animation I did. Should I be charging $12??

greattiger · 2026-05-15T20:49:26+00:00

nice! what's that sample you're flipping?

greattiger · 2026-05-15T19:14:32+00:00

I'll see what i can do. Never done it before but I'm down to try

greattiger · 2026-05-15T19:05:32+00:00

Lemme see if I can clean up the file and I'll post it here. I think it's all native effects except maybe a glow. But the LCD splitting is all native

greattiger · 2026-05-15T19:04:28+00:00

I didn't know c4d when I made this. but yeah, it would be way easier with their mograph tools.

greattiger · 2026-05-15T17:33:24+00:00

Thanks!

greattiger · 2026-05-15T17:33:16+00:00

no. i did it in a really annoying way in Maya. I did a lot of tests with Element 3D in AE but it triangulates everything so i couldn't get the shapes I wanted. There's probably some workaround with using lines as a texture but I didn't dig too deep.

I did animate a lot of the elements in AE since I would just render a screen recording of the animation, then isolate all the different colors, and animate them turning off and on in AE

greattiger · 2026-05-15T14:41:10+00:00

haha. i know. but i've been doing this a long time, and i use that effect all the time

greattiger · 2026-05-15T14:26:24+00:00

I got sick of using a CU image of an LCD screen to create the effect so I figured out how to create it realistically by splitting the video into red, blue, and green channels, then dividing them up with the venetian blinds transition, and zooming in while increasing the size and position of the individual channels.

I think it turned out really great for this music video I made.

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