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robbarrett.bsky.social
Freelance Technical Director and Motion Designer in Berlin. I also make After Effects scripts and tools. https://rob-barrett.com / automotion.tools
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I finally had a little time to take a look at #Rive… and my first project was using it to create a mockup of the #AfterEffects timeline 😅 This is an interactive tool to demonstrate the different types of #expression loops available in AE (for an upcoming Loopy documentation website).

A fantastic line-up of films playing at this little indie cinema in Berlin right now. I'd go for a triple feature here and watch all three back-to-back why not. Love all three of these films. #cinema #KinoIntimes #kino #Berlin

WB is scrapping finished feature films and shuttering historic game studios to drag their dividends up a few percentage points. $3.7M is a 10-person indie cooking for three years. Sony's Concord money could have funded a hundred of those teams, any of whom could be sitting on the next Minecraft.

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🆕 in After Effects Beta today: 🔎 Smooth Zoom 🔍 More info: community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

Popeye is alive! Got this old model cleaned up and moving! #gameart #3d

New action movie #LoveHurts is in cinemas Friday & to celebrate, British artist @stanchow.bsky.social has illustrated the film’s star, & Goonies & Indiana Jones legend, Ke Huy Quan! 👀We have two prints to give away, all signed by Ke himself! Like & repost for the chance to win.

#TipTuesday | Another great use for this new #AfterEffects feature: making a 2D effect position follow a 3D layer! 🧵 Watch part 2 in the thread below

✷ TRASH ANIMALS ✷

New in After Effects Beta: 💡Animated Environment Lights.💡 Makes it super quick and easy to light a 3D scene with surrounding footage (even non-360 stuff works well) -- or with totally synthetic sources like animated gradients! community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

Learn to animate a flexible tube in After Effects using Newton! 🌟 Follow these easy steps to create dynamic deformations as objects move through the tube. Full tutorial here: www.motionboutique.com/learn/create... 🚀 #MotionDesign #AfterEffects #Tutorial #Animation @aescripts.bsky.social

Fresh Trim v2 for Adobe After Effects is now live! Free for existing users. Trim or move layers according to different attributes. The updated UI allows for customizing the layout along with Kbar support. Check the product page @aescripts.bsky.social for all the details. aescripts.com/fresh-trim/

i'm so sorry, but Squid Game's a musical now, bye.

This UI refresh looks great. I use Loopy as part of my daily workflow and highly recommend it. 👏 Pretty small investment to save you a bunch of clicks. Check it out.

New in Loopy v1.2 🌟 This update brings a new panel interface to Loopy, with clean, vector icons and a reduced footprint so that it takes up less room in your workspace. aescripts.com/loopy/ #AfterEffects #aescripts #mograph #motionddesign @aescripts.bsky.social

B.A.T.S

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🏳️‍⚧️ Paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives! Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? Trans+!? This is for you. With @transhistoryweek.bsky.social we're investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to create official content for Trans+ History Week Deadline 16th Feb 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🧵 The details 👇

I am crafting the « missing »Pathfinder for #AfterEffects Sneak Peek.

I also added an HTML helper page to BattleButtons to make converting vector icons from Illustrator to the required Javascript arrays as easy as copy and paste!

#AfterEffects script devs: Last week, I delved into the world of ScriptUI icons to publish BattleButtons*, a toolkit enabling easy multi-colour vector icons which are swappable and toggle-able, with optional hover states! github.com/AutomotionTo... (* Forked from the excellent BattleStyle toolkit.)

Iron Giant Commission. Ink, Marker and Screen tones.

Had a great time yesterday putting faces to names at an impromptu meetup in Berlin with @fakegreendress.bsky.social and @barrymcw.bsky.social!

was genuinely looking for cooking advice didn’t even think about that

I've been quiet on here for a while, but I've been plugging away behind the scenes on a bunch of #AfterEffects scripts. I'll hopefully be releasing one or two within the next month, and I've got a lot of new scripts and updates to old ones to come this year!

What if I told you After Effects was getting rid of RAM preview? It's true. Preview your whole sequence directly from disk with Improved Caching For Longer Playback. Now live in public beta. Lots more info here: community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

About as succinct as it gets

I haven't told anyone about this yet, so let's go: Last fall, attorney's working for a certain social media company we will call "Schmeta" reached out to me asking for help with a copyright suit specifically because I was an academic who is also an 'expert' with Blender. 🧵

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators. More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live): 1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇 1/10

Tentatively dubious about Coda throwing its hat fully into the AI ring with Grammarly, and hoping that doesn't mean I'll have to set up a whole new bunch of business processes soon.

Genuinely wondering what the difference would be, if this were to pass, between a company feeding copyrighted material into their machine learning model and an individual feeding copyrighted material into their neural network.