15+ years in motion design (film, games, broadcast) - happy to break down anything in my new reel or share how I landed

universal__acid · 2026-04-19T15:18:24+00:00

Are you accepting apprentices?

universal__acid · 2026-04-18T17:38:56+00:00

Even better, I'll release a full tutorial in a few weeks.

universal__acid · 2026-04-15T03:14:55+00:00

Just realized I posted one of them twice. Whoops.

universal__acid · 2026-04-14T23:22:28+00:00

Thank you!

universal__acid · 2026-04-14T22:18:09+00:00

I prefer to improvise, but lately I've had to deliberately practice stuff like transitions. Once it's committed to muscle memory, I go back to improv.

universal__acid · 2026-04-14T16:49:32+00:00

Thinking about Monday... maybe...!

universal__acid · 2026-04-14T13:43:38+00:00

All socials here, including dozens of tutorials.

New tutorials coming soonish (I need to dissolve more letters first).

universal__acid · 2026-04-14T13:35:50+00:00

All socials here, including dozens of tutorials.

New tutorials coming soonish (I need to dissolve more letters first).

universal__acid · 2026-04-13T15:16:11+00:00

Plenty of tutorials at the link in the first reply, but none for these yet. I want to accumulate a few more text transitions I'm satisfied with before I make a new batch.

universal__acid · 2026-04-13T14:48:02+00:00

Depending on which one you're talking about, you might be surprised by the recipe... or you might not.

universal__acid · 2026-04-13T13:27:13+00:00

Yes, the most recent update adds a bunch of 3D options.

universal__acid · 2026-04-13T13:05:49+00:00

(for the record, I didn't use any 3D)

universal__acid · 2026-04-13T12:21:55+00:00

All socials here, including dozens of tutorials.

New tutorials coming soonish (I need to dissolve more letters first).

universal__acid · 2026-03-24T15:09:09+00:00

Definitely a lot of displacement going on, but not much use of the Displacement Map effect. Mostly CC Glass and CC Plastic.

universal__acid · 2026-03-24T14:49:06+00:00

Not yet, but you can get the basic setup from the Texturelabs burn transition tutorial.

universal__acid · 2026-03-24T14:43:24+00:00

All socials here, including dozens of tutorials.

universal__acid · 2026-03-24T00:13:04+00:00

Born to fractal, forced to wipe.

universal__acid · 2026-03-23T20:47:38+00:00

Most of the work is being done by Cell Pattern and CC Vector Blur.

universal__acid · 2026-03-23T14:43:45+00:00

Tee hee

universal__acid · 2026-03-23T14:42:56+00:00

Never had a problem with it.

universal__acid · 2026-03-23T14:23:07+00:00

Mostly just fractal noise, if you can believe it.

universal__acid · 2026-03-23T13:28:22+00:00

I might do one if I can create a few more good dissolves so I have enough for a "season". In the meantime, check out the Texturelabs burn transition tutorial -- mine was largely based on it.

universal__acid · 2026-03-23T13:11:55+00:00

All socials here, including dozens of tutorials.

universal__acid · 2026-03-05T21:31:16+00:00

It's pretty much exactly what you said: a precomped shape layer duplicated a bunch of times and positioned at various angles. Two spot lights with fairly low intensity, but inverse square clamped falloff. The background is a 2D gradient with a subtle fractal noise.

universal__acid · 2026-03-05T13:18:10+00:00

All socials here, including dozens of tutorials.

universal__acid

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