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Elements - May 2024

May's elements for patrons!

Hi everyone! Thank you all so much for your support and your patience, especially with this long delay. We're still chugging along and will be caught up soon, but first here are May's elements!

After Effects

  • Photo Borders: A rigged version of one of the photo borders from this month that you can easily change the text on (shown below)

  • Reactive Dot Grid: A rigged grid tha...

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Elements - April 2024

April's elements for Patrons!

Hi everyone! Thank you all so much for your support and your patience, especially with this long delay. We're back in short order with April's elements and we should hopefully be fully caught up soon so keep an eye out!

After Effects

  • Displacement: A set of displacement maps for angular movement and an example project (shown below)

  • Mask Triggering: An example of how to ...

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New FREE script

If you're tired of not having the option to reload footage from the timeline, this is for you. I had to reload a ton of renders that were overwritten but cached in After Effects last week, and I got fed up with the stupid process of being in the timeline, right-clicking to "reveal layer source in project", then going to what it revealed, and finally reloading it. It's much easier to throw this in KBar (SVG icon included) and do it in one click. Or just launch it however you want (even with a ...

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Elements - March 2024

March's elements for Patrons!

Hi everyone! Thank you all so much for your support and your patience, especially with this long delay. We're still working on the other elements, but here are the elements for March! We hope you all make use of them!

After Effects

  • Bitbox: An unfinished exploration of gridded elements (shown below)

  • Group Templates: Groups of After Effects templates built on shared them...

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Thank you for your patience!

Thank you all for all of your patience. We've had quite the time this year. We were working on things back to back for a bit, and then everything died for a little bit. Our clients are mainly net60 so that really makes paying the bills tough. So in between, we had to focus on getting out some products we've had on the back burner to at least get some small amount of income coming in.

When we mentioned that we were going to be more fluid on exact deliveries since everything is now availa...

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Elements - February 2024

February's elements for Patrons!

Hi everyone! In a shocking twist of events we're now ahead! Thank you all so much for your support and your patience. Here are the elements for February! We hope you all make use of them!


After Effects

  • Single Templates: A collection of various templates that are not following any particular themes (first image below)

  • Group Templates: Groups of After Effects templates buil...

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Elements - January 2024

And now we're caught back up! Once again, thank you all so much for your support and your patience. You are all so awesome! Here are the elements for January!


After Effects

  • Single Templates: A collection of various templates that are not following any particular themes (first image below)

  • Group Templates: Groups of After Effects templates built on shared themes (last two images below)

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Elements - December 2023

We're catching back up! Here are the elements for December!


After Effects

  • Single Templates: A collection of various templates that are not following any particular themes (first image below)

  • Group Templates: Groups of After Effects templates built on shared themes (last image below)

Plus all of the necessary assets

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Elements - November 2023

Hi again! Here are the elements for November!


After Effects

  • Single Templates: A collection of various templates that are not following any particular themes (first two images below)

  • Widget: A group of templates built off of our previous Widget theme (last image below)

  • The Alleyway: One of One of the single templates, used to make the thumbnail (shown above)


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Elements - October 2023

Hi everyone! We are catching back up. Over the next day or so, we'll be uploading everything to get back to being current. In the meantime, thank you for your patience and support! Here is what is available for October's elements!


After Effects

  • Single Templates: A collection of various templates that are not following any particular themes (first two images below)

  • Widget: A group of templates built off...

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Quick Update!

We're currently building a bunch of templates, as I think I mentioned before. A lot of them relate to a contract, so we're quite busy at the moment. BUT, we own all of those templates. So this means that, while we're still not ready to package everything up, there will be a lot of things available probably in the last week of January, where we'll do a large drop for all three months we're behind.

So again, sorry for the delay, but with everything going on there has been zero extra time....

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Quick Update

Hi everyone! This is just a note that we are slammed but we have files for October and November. We just need to find time to assemble everything for you all. We hope you understand!

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Elements - September 2023

Hi everyone! Now we're back on time! Thanks for your support and patience!

Here is what is available for September's elements!

After Effects

  • ASCII Effect: An updated version of our ASCII setup, in 4K and 1080p. The 1080p version has a higher resolution setting (shown below)

  • Bit Breaker Transition: A glitchy, 8-bit style transition (shown below)

  • Black Hat Title: A glitchy title built ou...

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Elements - August 2023

Hi everyone! Thanks for your patience and support. We built the last two months concurrently and just didn't have time to package them up but here they are (and September will also be published today) so happy Friday!

Here is what is available for August's elements!

After Effects

  • Ink: A project to composite the ink effect built in Cinema 4D (shown below)

  • Xray Shader: The project used to build the thumbnail (shown abo...

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Quick Update

Hi everyone!

I know I said I wasn't going to message about these much lately, but I just want to mention for those who aren't on our Discord that we're still going strong making elements—we just haven't been able to clean them up and package them just yet. We're doing an internal push to put out more templates (like the one above), and a lot of that is coming your way with all of the associa...

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Elements - July 2023

Hi everyone! It was a busy July for us. We went on a roadtrip to Hot Springs, Arkansas so there are some elements in here from there. We also built a few useful rigs, so hopefully you can make use of them! Thanks for sticking with us!

Here is what is available for July's elements.

After Effects

  • LUT Selector: A super useful rig to quickly step through all of the base AE LUTs—and you can add your own—so you can quickly choose one

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Elements - June 2023

Hey everyone! Thank you for your continued support! We're working on catching up on our elements. We have a lot of July built, so that one should be more on time. But here's June! The list below is how we're now formatting our website and going to format these posts as well so that this stuff is more easily searchable in the future since there's so much content available now that we're even having a hard time finding it.


Here is what is available for June's elements!

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Elements - May 2023

Hi everyone! Thank you all for your patronage and your patience! Here are the elements for May!

May's elements include everything to build this thumbnail, a few C4D setups for toon shading things in a line-art style, an After Effects script for batch layer naming, an experimental datamosh setup, and more!

I think the datamosh setup is pretty rad. But I am the Glitchlord. 😂

Ge...

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Elements - April 2023

Hi everyone! We finally have elements for April. We're sorry about that we've been quite slammed recently. But fear not, we still have more coming soon.

This month's elements include everything to build this thumbnail scene, a few C4D rigs including one to make embroidery. One shows how to make an interesting paper strip setup that travelled around Twitter—here in both C4D and Houdini. There are also a couple of quick, and small, but extremely useful scripts for After Effects.

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Elements - March 2023

Hi everyone! Thank you for your patience this month. We have been quite busy. Make sure to join our Discord if you haven't, especially for more frequent updates.

This month's elements include everything to build this scene (making fun of NFTs), including setups for textures, HDRIs, etc. There are some rigs in C4D and After Effects. There's an asset for generating extruded edges on text in C4D, and there are also some ...

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Elements - February 2023

Monthly files for patrons!

So, while we were a little slow on January...we were really on point for February! Thanks again for your support, and let's check out February's elements!

This month's files include the webby look in the thumbnail, the C4D rig to build the Voronoi Fracture, which is based on an animated version that switches between letters, and a cloud setup to fill text in C4D. There are also a few rigs for After Effects, and another look that's pretty glitchy!

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Elements - January 2023

Heyo!!! We hope you don't think we abandoned you. We've just been hard at work! Thank you as always for you support! And without further ado...

This month's files include the look for this thumbnail, some hand-drawn elements, including an After Effects setup for hand-drawn text. It's not super fast but it works. There are a couple of After Effects rigs and a couple of C4D rigs as well.

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NoSolids

NoSolids release + Gritch!

After forever, we're finally releasing NoSolids (tomorrow but you can get it now) which makes sure you don't need to use Solids in your After Effects projects anymore. Adam Plouff took our thunder (but we still like him) but we've had this developed almost in its entirety since 2018. We've used it all that time and have subtly improved it over the years. Anyway, it's free so grab it...

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Elements - December 2022

Hi everyone! Thank you all for your support! December's elements have arrived. There's some cool stuff in here, so we hope you enjoy it.

This month's files include C4D setups for the space scene in the thumbnail, inflating balloons, and triggering a plane to become fabric. There's also a setup using Nodebox to build a texture for displacing a map from a plane and a setup for volume fog in Redshift, as well as a few different After Effects projects, and more!

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Update on Billing and Files

Hi everyone! First thank you all for your support! We hope you've all had a great holiday and have a happy New Year!

This is just a quick note to inform you guys of some small changes we're making. First, while we mainly do monthly content, we've switched over to the new Patreon billing where you just pay every month based on the date you signed up. That way if you just joined us in the last week, you won't pay for another 3 weeks.

This change is also going to help lighten up our ...

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Elements - November 2022

Hi guys! We're on time! We hope you all had a good November. Happy Thanksgiving to our fellow Americans, and happy incoming holidays for everyone! We're happy to bring you some beta scripts that you can check out. Let us know if you run into any issues that aren't mentioned in their respective readme files.

This month's files include a couple of beta scripts for After Effects, the 3D models seen in the thumbnail above as well as a few others, some VDB clouds, plus two setups for a dropp...

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Elements - October 2022

Sorry for the massive delay on this one. We finally got through out projects, mainly because Thanksgiving is a great blocker! Anyway, thanks for your support and for sticking with us. The November files are on time and we can't wait to get them to you! But for now, enjoy this month's files!

This month's files include the edge glitch style in the image above. There's a 14-segment display that updates with a text layer in After Effects. There is a Cinema 4D rig for wall panels with rotati...

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Another Update

Hi everyone!

We are trying to get files out to you guys, but every time we get to it, some fire needs to be put out. I'm really sorry about the delay. We had two projects run over, and then they needed additional deliverables, a rush job from one of our main clients came in, and it seems like every single event is happening where when I would normally have a full day, my wife has something she needs to do. So I have to pick up the kids from school, which effectively ends my workday.

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File Delay

Hi everyone!

We're a little late on our files. We had a family emergency, that is still somewhat ongoing, as well as two large projects getting pushed together to the end of this month (which is why we've been quiet). Because of that, it'll probably be next week when we're able to get the files out. We have some built already, but we tend to save things as we go, and then go back and clean them up. So they haven't made it to that second stage yet. We'll get them up as soon as we can. View Post

Elements - September 2022

Hi everyone! We appreciate the patience! Neither Sev nor I had any damage from the hurricane, but there was yard cleanup to do and Sev had to evacuate in case the storm surge came our way. I'm sure you've seen the total devastation that happened to those poor people to the south of us.

Many people have checked in with us thinking that we might've been affected like that, but thankfully it was basically the opposite here. Our bay actually had water sucked out of it again, much like what ...

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