The beauty of motion in the real world

If you're had enough of controversy, politics and debate, point your eyes at this and contemplate the natural beauty of physics and human ingenuity.

The Mill BLACKBIRD

This is a very niche use of technology to combine motion capture, CG texture capture and tracking data together in one piece of kit.

GOTHAM, the font not the city.

I was prepping some tutorials for a class and went off on my own tangent, producing a little animation inspired by the font 'Gotham' which I suddenly decided I really like despite perhaps never having used it before.


I made liberal use of the Ease and Wizz, Trajectory  and Textevo scripts from aescripts + aeplugins, is it cheating? The quotation comes from the designer blogger Elizabeth Anderson who had some additional information about the font that I stole (the info not the font).

SABER

After the first few minutes using this free Video Copilot plugin you realize it was something you always needed.

Using MyPaint.

I spent a bit of time with MyPaint to work on an actual piece rather than just random doodles.There is an almost hidden function in MyPaint that allows you to sample a stroke in your artwork and the brush and color setting for that stroke propagate to your current brush.

 This means I don't have to cycle through brushes or keep tabs on what ones I'm using, in this instance, after realizing I was only using about three brushes, it was easy to just select them from the artwork and continue working.

MyPaint 1.2.0 upgrade.

Looks like this is my first post for the year, I didn't blog for quite some time for various reasons. I'm going to be doing a video review of the free painting app "My Paint". I've been playing around with it lately since it was recently updated with a more sophisticated set of features and user interface.

There's something about this program that feels comfortable to me, and I'd like to explain some of this in depth once I have more experience using it. Projects like MyPaint deserve recognition as an alternative to paid software, allowing anyone an avenue into digital illustration.

MyPaint can be downloaded here.

BAO Mask 3D Warper - New plugin for After Effects

Create 3D geometry using masks, project textures onto distorted planes, export the geometry to other 3D apps that communicate with After Effects, this is one of those plugins that re-define what's possible inside of After Effects.






Can by purchased over at aescripts.com.