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Elements - April 2021

Hi everyone! Sorry for the delay on these. Hopefully there's enough here to make the wait worth it! And thank you all, as always, for your support!

In this month's elements we have a cool cellular microscope look, a ton of X-Particles elements with one comped in the Gravity project, a 3D text slam in After Effects like the old Mac OS intro videos, the Raptor project in the thumbnail, a ton of L-System setups, dust textures, and more!

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Quick update

Hi everyone! Thank you for your support.

We had a ridiculously short project come in last week, and we have today only to make the changes so we'll be sending out files next week. On the plus side, there's a lot of cool elements to share that we've built so you'll be getting those next week. Sorry for the delay again. We started assembling things this morning and the changes came through.

As always, if you're ending your support this month, we'll send you files when they're up. Th...

Elements - March 2021

Hi everyone! Thanks for your support and sorry again for the delay. We set up a lot of rigs in here, and had a very crazy project to deal with. Two agencies were above our client so there was a feedback loop between them. A single VFX shot that should've taken a day or two INCLUDING revisions was revised out to version AA, and then they went back to a version from a week before. So they went 27 versions and then decided to throw away an additional week of work. We ended up working on two shot...

Elements coming Monday!

Hi everyone! We again apologize for the delay. We had a little bit of time to do some extra exploration, and we started on a new product so we're going to give you guys some of that as well. So look for March's elements on Monday.

Quick note

We're running a little behind on getting elements assembled for this month. We had planned to get them out today, but a project that involves a feedback loop between two agencies has run us out to version Z on a single shot that is 87 frames long. So...there hasn't been much time available where we had initially planned for elements. We hate being late, but our hands were tied.

Keep an eye out for the link ASAP. If you've left us this month, we'll be in contact soon to make sure you get...

Elements - February 2021

Hi everyone! Thanks for your support. We had an interesting time this month working on some odd concepts. Hopefully they will inspire you.

In this month's elements we have the CRT project from the thumbnail, a bunch of glitch elements, and some setups for glitching, we've also got an interesting setup in Cinema 4D that we're calling trixels. They're based on triangular prisms that rotate through colors following the angle of a color's hue. There's a project that shows a parametric setup...

Requests!

Hi everyone! The frame above is a sneak peak of some X-Particles/AE stuff coming in February's elements. That said, I just wanted to post a quick update to let everyone know that if you're stuck on something or you feel like you have an idea for our elements, message us or post here and we'll see what we can do. Without any feedback, we're just blindly making stuff that we think is cool, but it's always nice to have an idea to tackle.

I can't guarantee that we can get everything done th...

Elements - January 2021

It's finally 2021 and we're off to an insane start. But if there's one stable thing in your life, it's that it's time for new files! Note however that Sev's had quite the week, so while I hoped to get these to you earlier in the week, it didn't work out. And while there's a lot for you to go through, we're missing some of his files, so we'll be adding more stuff next week. Grab it now and we'll send out an email through Gumroad when those are added. This is especially important if you are lea...

Elements - December 2020

Hi everyone! Thanks for your support! We had hoped to get this out yesterday but someone asked us to build some mogrt related stuff, so we figured we'd hold off until we got that done so we could add it to this month's files. We hope you find them useful and all have a safe and happy holiday with your families! Also, feel free to send requests for files. If we can make it happen, we will.

On to the files. This month's files contain a setup to quickly grab map data from OpenStreetMap and...

Elements - November 2020

Hi everyone! Thanks for your support! As you've probably noticed we've been quiet but busy. Here are the elements for November. We hope these help you out!

This month's files contain quite a few rigs for After Effects and Cinema 4D. In After Effects we have UI elements, bezier experimentation, a Looney Tunes–style background and more. Cinema 4D rigs include a roller coaster that builds on a spline, a low-poly mesh deformer, and setups to cut a surface.

Get them 2020-11-27 21:57:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Elements - October 2020

Hi everyone! Thanks for your support! This month's elements are here! We made a lot of things this month, and some of them have been ready for a bit, but others were waiting for some descriptions. We found a lot of useful stuff for things we've built, so hopefully you'll find them useful too!

This month's files contain Cinema 4D setups for automatically setting up image textures with alpha using Python in C4D materials and RedShift materials based on the C4D filename. There's an improve...

Elements - September 2020

Hi! Sorry for the delay, we had a few things to assemble and a huge deadline today. That said, we've already got a jump on files for next month that still need to be separated from their projects and put together with some readme files. Anyway, thanks for your support!

This month's files contain C4D setups for coloring parametric objects using fields, random linear fields, arranging clones using a shader, and sticking particles to specific areas on an object. There are After Effects set...

Quick note!

Hi everyone! We have your monthly files ready, but we haven't had a chance to write the explanations for them just yet, so we're going to upload and post them either tomorrow or Friday. I thought tomorrow was the last day of the month, but I was mistaken! Sorry for the delay on that! If you've left us this month, I'll contact you directly with a link for your download when they're up.

Tutorial 210 Project File

Hi guys! Grab the project file for 210 here. Thanks for your support!

Tutorial 210: Textured Shadows

Hey! I was going to do Monday, but it's a holiday so I think we're going to be putting this one out on Friday instead,

In this After Effects tutorial, we build a mask that can follow another layer. This technique is helpful in creating shadows out of images and textures. It's extra handy because you can set it all up with one texture layer and have everything in your scene use that single layer for its shadow. This technique can also be used anywhere else you need a mask to follow a lay...

Elements - August 2020

Thank you all for your support and patience as always!

In this month's files, we have textures and glitches of course. But we also have an isometric setup for a car. It's a turntable built in 3D with Sketch and Toon, that we then retime in After Effects so we can rotate it arbitrarily. Then there are expressions to make it follow and turn around a roadway. Then we have more Cinema 4D explorations to morph a shape from an organic to a hard surface. And finally, we have a useful setup for...

Quick update!

Hi everyone, I'm just writing a quick note to update you guys a few things. We're going to try to be more active and interactive here.

OK, first, I've got another tutorial in the queue. I'll probably push it this week. I hope you guys liked getting files a month or two ago and then seeing the tutorial I built from that R&D. Right at this very moment, I'm working on something for your files this month that might make it into a tutorial in a bit too.

Speaking of files, I really ...

Tutorial 209 Project

Hi! Thanks as always for your support. Grab your project file here.

Tutorial 209: Font Weights

We are finally back with another tutorial! It's been a bit. I think I mentioned how we had a surprise deadline pop in for a documentary we shot a couple of years ago. So thank you for sticking around and showing your support! This week, we'll also be sending files out to $5+ patrons!

This is a quick After Effects tutorial for you. I wanted to play around with the new After Effects text expression access and I thought it might be interesting to be able to finally animate font weight with...

Elements - July 2020

Hey guys! Sorry for the delay. We had a surprise documentary edit to produce in the last two weeks that we were notified of during vacation. So it was a little tense. But thankfully we had started building some things earlier in the month. Anyway, go grab them here.

In this month's elements, we have a lit model in Cinema 4D plus a cool setup to drop a flag with X-Particles. We also have a setup to build interlocking, r...

Elements - June 2020

Hey everyone! Here are the elements for June. We've got a sneak peek at some things we're building, and you can use now.

There are VHS/glitch transitions in AE, a ton of reveals (rendered and with the original source AEP and graphics), and setups for making Peanut Butter or a non-Netwonian liquid-like stream in C4D.

Go grab them here!

For all of our US friends, have a happy and safe Fourth of July! And to the...

Tutorial 208 project files

Hey everyone! Here's a link to the project files for the tutorial I posted last night. Get it here! To avoid future confusion with what's available to patrons, this link will be removed in a month or two, so grab it now. It'll stay in your Gumroad library after that.

Thanks for your support!

Tutorial 208: Glass Shifting

Hey guys! We're back with a quick video that shows you something simple but very helpful. I'll do my best to send these project files out later today my time since I'm about to go to sleep and they're not all on this machine—that's also why there's no thumbnail. The video itself will likely go live on Wednesday or Thursday.

Useful tutorials don't always have to be flashy. In this one, we show you how a simple gradient can be combined with Posterize to make a displacement map that we c...

Elements - May 2020

Hey everyone! Here are the elements for May! Thank you again for your support!

In this month's files, we have a beta After Effects script for layer sequencing (that's been in beta since 2017!). There's an AE setup for using hand drawn text where you can type using it. There's also hand-drawn elements with alpha channels that go with that.  There's an AE setup for localizing scripts that includes a preset for 2020+. There's also Cinema 4D setups for 2D Smoke, liquid revealed on a sp...

Quick update!

Hi guys, this is just a heads up. We got slammed with calls this week that killed our productivity. We've got some cool stuff built for you for this month, but we need to package it up this weekend. It'll be before the 1st, but just barely. Thanks for your patience!

Elements April 2020

Hey everyone! Thanks for your support! We wanted to add a little more to our latest tutorial, and then had a project push its way in. But here were are with a day to spare! Grab your elements for this month here. If you have any suggestions on stuff you'd like to see here, send us a message and we'll see if we can make it happen.

Tutorial 207 project file

Hey guys! Thanks for your support. Here's the project file for 207.

Tutorial 207: Particulates

This one is out a little early for you guys. I still have to put together the project file and send it to you guys, but I figured I'd get this out ASAP for you guys! It'll probably go live for everyone else tomorrow.

Anyway, in this one, we're making particles with text animators. It's pretty useful. Check it out!

Tutorial 205 & 206 Project Files

Hey guys! Here are the project files for 205 and 206 so go grab them! Thanks for your support!

Tutorial 206: Styling Text

Hey guys! Guess what! We have two videos out for you! This one will go live to the norms on Monday.

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use regular expressions—aka regex—to style text using the expression selector in text animators. This is particularly useful if you want to change a lot of things that can be broken down into patterns or if you have text you can't easily modify, like text coming from a CSV.

The basic idea is to look for a regex pattern, and then save a stri...