Workbench

Possible delay for files...

As this is the current track for Ian, we might be delayed in getting files out this week. When Irma came through and hit to the south of us, I was unlucky right at the outset—literally about an hour after winds arrived we lost power because a tree fell into a powerline on my street. When the crew came by to assess the power, they missed that they could've made a simple temporary connection and so we were one of the last groups to get power restored. We were only about 15 houses in a group a...

Discord

OK, so a number of you have discovered that we finally got around to opening up our Discord server. But in case you haven't, here's your notice! We're still arranging things and figuring out how we want to set it up, but we figured we'd make it live for you guys! We're probably going to set up a suggestion channel so you guys can send any ideas or whatever our way. That includes ideas for the server too!

Elements - August 2022

Hi everyone! Sorry for the slight delay and thank you all for your support! It was quite a day, but here we are.

This month's files include a cool 3D printer rig, simple conveyor belt, and a few other Cinema 4D rigs. There are also some additional Redshift shaders. There's a few interesting After Effects setups, including a DNA double helix built from Essential Properties, and an entire CSV to Gantt setup that you can dig into the code for. And of course, who can forget the mograph plan...

Quick Update

We've got some cool stuff brewing from this month, but we don't have enough time to get it all out today. Expect some interesting stuff tomorrow. If you've left us this month, I'll send you a message with a link to this month's files!

Moogle (Thanks @MrDLatif!)

We launched an industry search engine today that lets you search within a pre-defined section of industry websites focused on tutorials, docs, and tools. No more searching for Redshift and getting Amazon links! Check it out!

http://findonthe.net/motion

Hi!

Hi everyone! This is just a quick note to say that if you come across a project file on here that doesn't have a $0 link for the $5+ tiers, let us know. We've had a few people leave because they couldn't find a link or an old link was missing the code and instead of asking about it, they thought we were trying to screw them over, and that's not the case. I've even messaged files when I discovered that it happened via the exit surveys when you stop supporting us.

So please, please, pleas...

Elements - July 2022

Hi! First of all, thank you for your support! We can't thank you all enough for checking out our files each month.

It feels like forever since our last update, but we've just been busy in the trenches on client work. But that doesn't mean we didn't find the time to build some fun projects for you guys!

This month's files include the entire project to build this thumbnail, a couple of models, a few Redshift shaders, a 2D drawn landscape with a useful expression to lay things out on...

Elements - June 2022

Hi everyone! Thanks for your support! We were thinking of sending out these updates more piecemeal throughout the month, but we're not quite sure how that might work just yet. So for now, here's the elements for June!

This month's elements include this lovely Firewatch-inspired scene you see on the thumbnail, and you'll see a glitch style that is also included, as well as a single hatch/cross hatch look. There are also a few styles that utilize an old school blobbing effect from one of ...

Elements - May 2022

Just in the nick of time! It's been a busy month. Three of the people in Joe's family have birthdays this month, we build an actual workbench as a base for a kitchen sink in our studio, and we went on a camping trip with our friends from Ukramedia—which you might've seen on twitter. Some of the elements this month come from that trip! Anyway, thank you, as always, for your support!

This month's elements is an eclectic mix from various projects as well as a camping trip we took. So we ...

Elements - April 2022

Hi everyone! Thanks for your support! Here are the elements for April. Moving forward we might try doing more piecemeal drops throughout the month, but we're not sure about that yet. We'll update you with more info on that when we get closer to doing that.

There are a few interesting things in this month's files. There are a good amount of Redshift shaders and one of those inspired Sev to make a nice bottle of bourbon. There's a project for this night vision look you see in the thumbnai...

Elements - March 2022

Hi everyone! Thanks for your support! It feels good to get this out on time this month. We're pretty excited about this one because there's a lot of cool setups in this one.

One setup builds the look of this month's thumbnail procedurally. Another builds an old school analog CRT look. There's a setup for building catenaries in After Effects (think dangling power lines) as well as a hand-built procedural sort. There are textures shot at a local airshow, a quick animated fish setup, and a...

Elements - February 2022

Hi everyone! At last, we are here with stuff to play with! As always, thanks for your patience and support!

This month's elements include everything to build this thumbnail, a new font with 3 weights, a blend setup to bring that functionality from Illustrator to After Effects, a Houdini rock generator and OBJs, an art directable 3D water setup, and a few other tricks. Check it out!

Grab it all here!

So, I'm dumb.

Seeing that yesterday was 2/28 I thought, excellent, I have a couple of days to get out patron files. Well...2/28 is February 28th and I don't know if you know much about February, but considering that I've seen about 36 of them I should've known that the most I could get is one extra day—maybe. So sorry about that. We'll get files to you by the end of the week! Anyone who's left won't see this, but as always we'll send you the last files you paid for if you leave us.

Thanks for stick...

Elements - January 2022

Hi everyone! Thanks for your support and your patience! It's been a long week but here we are as promised!

This month's elements include everything to build this landscape, an interesting glitch effect, some useful After Effects projects, various elements, and a useful update to an older project using Nodebox. Check it out!

Grab your files here!

Update

Hey everyone! We picked up a last minute project last week, so we're behind on getting files put together. We didn't even realize today was the 31st.  We'll get project files out this week and if this is your last month with us, we'll DM you a link. Thanks for all of your support and we'll talk soon!

Elements - December 2021

Finally this crazy year is over. I guess we shouldn't be wishing our years away, but man... Anyway, one last thing before the year is out—have some new files! Thank you all for all of your support in 2021 (and prior even!) and we can't wait to bring you more cool stuff in 2022—not the least of which should hopefully be a sizable tutorial series for what we did to make this thumbnail.

As far as the elements are concerned, they include everything to build this thumbnail—Cinema 4D pr...

Elements - November 2021

Hi everyone! Thanks for your patience this month. We hope all of our US friends had a great Thanksgiving! And we hope the rest of you are also safe and happy with your families as well as we head toward the coming holidays!

This month's elements include the bit glitch look from this thumbnail, an interesting text animator, a Houdini building generator, as well as a parallax shader for the windows that was built in RedShift and can be used in C4D. It also includes a few other shaders, an...

Elements coming soon!

Hey everyone, we were hoping to push out elements today, but with the holidays and some unexpected things to take care of today, we're going to have to push it a day or two. If you left us this month, I'll send a code to you when they're up.

Thanks for your patience!

Elements - October 2021

Hi everyone! Thanks for your support!

We've been working on a massive mogrt that we started in 2018 building on the look of the WWDC stuff at that time. So we took vector icons we had built for various projects over the years and turned them into 3D icons. Then we animated them in C4D. There are over 40 animated icons and a couple of them have more technically interesting rigs (check the readme). There's an AEP that puts all of it together. And while the mogrt isn't finished just yet, t...

Quickly lay out stacked text in After Effects - Tutorial 211: Price Point

Hey everyone! We're back! It's been a while in the tutorial space, but you all know we've still been working behind the scenes. That said, it feels good to bring something back to the public—well, not just yet. As we're not beholden to a schedule anymore, we can give this to you all in advance. Everyone else gets this Monday. All of you get it today!

This is a short one, but the idea behind it is useful. And so is the little trick about how to quickly set a range for a text animator. ...

Elements - September 2021

Thanks for your support! Sorry for the delay. I ended up working from about 9 am to almost 9 pm so I missed my deadline with you. I also started trying something out over the weekend, but it didn't work out just yet so hopefully you'll get that this month. Anyway, on to the elements.

This month's elements contain a parametric book rig in C4D, as well as some randomly animating lines. It also contains an After Effects setup to make custom dashed lines with a custom font that allows you t...

Elements coming soon!

Hi everyone! We've got some things built for you this month, but we're low on time to package them up. Expect to see files either Friday or Monday. If you're leaving us this month, we'll send you a link for the files. Thank you all for your patience!

Files!

First off, as always, thank you for your support!

As promised, I've gone through all of the elements and project files that we've posted and I've added codes to everything. Where we used to have multiple tiers, I've basically kept the highest ones we had and deleted the others so you might see references to Additional Elements, Complex Elements, and just Elements. Complex Elements always contained everything, so that's what we kept. Those tiers were $10 and $20 previously.

All of ...

Elements - August 2021

Hi everyone! Thanks for your support. I had hoped to get these files out earlier today, but we've been prepping for a shoot next week and there have been a lot of calls. Also, if you saw the poll we put up earlier this month, we're going to go back as soon as we can and add codes for all of our old files here, so standby for that!

This month's elements contain a bunch of rigged elements in Cinema 4D and After Effects—like gauges, ui elements, and an entire hand drawn mouthabet rig (th...

Monthly elements

Hi everyone! As current Patrons, we want to get your opinion on something. We've always had our files be monthly, expiring after the end of the next month (although, we've also not been super rigid about that, as you've probably noticed). We've always felt that doing that made it the most fair for our patrons so that if you've been with us for a year, you've gotten and paid for a full year of content. We felt it was unfair for people to come along later, and get everything that someone else h...

Elements - July 2021

Hi everyone, thanks for your support! If you follow us on Twitter, you've seen some stuff from these elements, if not read further.

This month's elements contain a few looks in After Effects as well as other useful setups, including many UI elements that are used in the looks. There are, of course, glitchy elements, 3D models, and even a quick tip Sev recorded ages ago that never ended up on our channel. Have fun exploring!

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Elements - June 2021

Hi everyone! Thank you for your support! Sorry we came up to the last day, but at least we're not late! We had a rather large shoot this month in Denver. I was directing, so I was in prepro for a little over a week before, and then we were gone for a week. But, here we are!

This month's elements contain a few different AE setups to take a look at. It includes a font for UI elements that also has an interesting way to animate. We've built a bunch of models for Blender/C4D as well as some...

Elements - May 2021

Hi everyone! Thanks for your patience and support! Here are the elements for May. We have a few different setups in here in AE, Fusion, and C4D. And then there are quite a few 3D models camera mapped from photographs. All of them are in C4D, but most of them were textured and modeled in Blender and transferred via FBX. Some are only good for background, but many would make good foreground objects. Check it out!

Grab it h...

One more update!

Since we had made a few background models for this month's elements, we decided to try out Blender since it's way easier to UV and model in it. But of course, we're learning so we're a bit delayed. But that means you'll get some additional models with the elements today or tomorrow. Sorry for the additional delay and thanks for your support!

Memorial Day

Hi! We had been planning to deliver this month's elements on Monday. Unfortunately, I only just realized last night that Monday is Memorial Day. So we'll deliver Tuesday or Wednesday this week. No worries if this is your last month with us—I'll message you a download link so you get what we owe you! Thanks for your support. Talk to you soon!