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Tutorial 205: Animated Pipes

Alright, so you guys were wise to our April Fool's shenanigans. Well, guess what. We've got a tutorial for you. It drops tonight/tomorrow for everyone else, but for you, it's here today.

In this tutorial we take a look at creating an interesting loop. We'll make procedural pipes using splines, cloners, and CV Chamfer. This will allow us to create pipes, bend them, put bands around the joints, and move clones through the pipes. It's a simple but powerful setup.

You'll need to make ...

Elements - March 2020!

Hey everyone! We hope you're all staying safe! Here are the elements for March. Thanks for your support!

There's a bunch of setups in here for different things. Take a look through, there's a good bit to take apart! If you have any effect or style you want us to look into next month, let us know and we'll see what we can do! Thanks again!

Probably should put the link in this thing next time! Grab them here!...

Moving forward!

I didn't think about this, but if you're new here, you're going to find some older posts inaccessible. And that's mainly because those upper tiers don't exist anymore! Fear not, from here on out, $5 patrons get everything we have available.

And if you're not new, you should have received a message from us last week that had details on how to download last month's elements. So if you didn't get that, hit us up and we'll get you sorted!

Quick Update!

Hi everyone! As I noted last month, I've unpublished the $10-$30 tiers so unless you want to be extra generous, you should switch to the $5 tier. :)

Also, I'm sorry for the delay in the last month's files. I tried to get everything out before we began a massive project—we basically just built a project that should've taken 3 months in about a week and a half. That said, I have most of it set up, but I don't have the information that goes with all of the files just yet. I need to talk ...

Tutorial 204: 3D Visualizer

Hey everyone! Thanks for your support. We got this one out a little early! Sorry if you got two notifications, I forgot to set early access on this!

In this tutorial, we're taking audio and using it to drive a setup similar to the one we made in Tutorial 166: Free 3D Terrain. By adding some simple expressions to Wave World's Frequency and Amplitude parameters in each producer, we can make our...

Tutorial 204 project file

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Exciting changes are coming!

Hey guys! We've been thinking about what to do about our Patreon as we continue to be hugely busy. This economic boom in the US has kept us constantly on projects, even through Christmas. The last time we re-arranged things, we streamlined so that we're not as swamped with getting everything out at the end of a busy month, but it's still not perfect so we've come up with a new idea.

Next month, we're going to switch to only having the $1 and $5 tiers. You won't be removed from the upper...

New Quick Tips!

Hi everyone! This video is out early for you guys—so early it doesn't even have any info in the description yet and the HD version might not even be ready yet! It'll likely go out tomorrow or perhaps Thursday for everyone else. Enjoy!

Elements - January 2020

Note: Complex Elements and Elements were merged in 2021. They're all just called Elements now.

Hi everyone! We're just in time. We'll have some news coming in soon so that we can address this, but for now, here are your elements and thank you for hanging on!

In this month's additional elements, we've got a setup for building circuitry in Cinema 4D, you just need a free plugin from Cineversity. We also have an After Effects setup for building a dotted line with a t...

Tutorial 202: Depth Mattes

Hi everyone! We hope you had a great holiday and that you're 2020 is off to a great start. We were finishing up a project right before CES, and ran into an issue that was a little bit of a pain. Thankfully, with a bit of code, we were able to get ourselves out of a lot of additional keyframing and get out of the studio a little earlier.

Sev, Andrew Embury, and I were using Redshift. For some reason, depth passes from Redshift ...

Elements - December 2019

Note: Complex Elements and Elements were merged in 2021. They're all just called Elements now.

Hi guys! Long time no see! ;) Thanks for sticking with us last month, here are the elements for December.

This month's additional elements include a few After Effects project files that explore building UI elements, graphs, and an automatic text animator.

The basic elements include a looping cube animation and a bunch of elements from Glitchlord Data and UI.

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Elements - November 2019

RNote: Complex Elements and Elements were merged in 2021. They're all just called Elements now.

Hi! As always thanks for your support! We apologize for the delay, but we're also putting out December's elements today (in a separate post) so hopefully that helps. Also, since we've switched up our tutorial schedule, we now offer some additional elements for $5+ patrons. So that's why there are three options now! Of course if you're in a higher tier, it includes everything ...

Tutorial 201 project file

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Tutorial 201: Ugly Sweater

Hey guys! We've got a fun one for you this time. It's a procedurally built sweater! We're also going to be releasing the rest of the monthly content for you guys, hopefully tomorrow. Thanks as always for your support!

In this After Effects tutorial, we take a look at how to build an ugly sweater. We start off by drawing a single stitch, and then repeat that into a full grid. Vertically, we skip every other row because we're coloring these using a source comp that has Mosaic applied to i...

Rewards update

Hey guys! I hope that those of you who celebrated Thanksgiving had a great one with your families. We had a good Thanksgiving over here with ours. It could've been a little cooler in Tampa, but it wasn't super humid so we'll take the win. It's decent today.

Anyway, I'm just sending you all a quick note. Project files will come next week. If you're still here—thank you for continuing with us. If you've decided to leave us—thank you for joining us and I'll message you with your files ...

New Shizzle

Hey guys! I don't know if you saw us mention on Twitter about saving your pennies, but I wanted to give you guys the inside scoop on some stuff we're working on in the 5 minutes I have before I need to get back to working on it!

Keep this on the DL!

We're building a new market with a few industry people like Mikey Borup and Paul Conigliaro and we're launching it with new products. You'll also be able to find all of our normal Workbench stuff up there as well.

One of those ne...

Tutorial 200 project files

Hey everyone! Thanks for your support! Grab the project files for tutorial 200 here. Sorry if you got this twice, I accidentally sent this out to everyone by mistake.

Tutorial 200: Slice

We've made it to 200. As we mentioned before, we're going to transition away from weekly content. But we will make sure our Patrons still get good content. Deal? OK.

Also, one additional note before the tutorial notes. We have an ambassador link for Wipster. Signing up for a free account helps us out, so if you're looking for a system where you can gather notes from clients, go grab an account using our link! <...

Tutorial 199: Bit Growth

Man, 199. I'm starting to forget if I've done tutorials or not now. Although I feel like that's more from a lack of sleep at this point! Anyway, we're trying to get these out on time, but it's been trying. As you guys know, we'll be addressing that soon. Anyway, for now, this one is a little bit early for you guys.

My apologies to Josh Yeo. Go check out his channel! If you're interested in f...

Tutorial 198 project file

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Tutorial 198: Faking Waves

Hi guys! Here's the tutorial for last Friday. Also side note: we're not dumping Patreon or anything. Our new ending directs people to our website first because we know Patreon isn't everyone's cup of tea. So in the interest of not being locked into any one service, we've compiled a list of sources where people can help support us. Most of these have been on our channel in some fashion or another, but we never really called attention to them. Anyway, on to the tutorial info!

Creating wat...

Elements - October 2019

Note: Complex Elements and Elements were merged in 2021. They're all just called Elements now.

Hi guys! As always, thanks for your support. We have some cool stuff for you this month! The plus side to having a ton of different projects going on is a ton of new stuff.

This month's elements include a ton of noises that have an old school audio vibe. They also work well to give text an interesting feel when you use them as a displacement map. There's a light leak I c...

Quick update!

An update so quick it needed an exclamation point! Anyway, I have files ready for all of the tiers. I'll try my best to get that all up for during my kid's naptime. Sev's tutorial will be going up Monday unless something happens, but I'll try to get it out for you guys as well.

I just want to let you guys know that we haven't forgotten you! Things have just been crazy. We tried to turn a project down, but we ended up taking it on, and Sev is on vacation this week, and it's all 3D in Red...

Tutorial 197: Lockdown

Hi guys! Sorry for the delay. Sev ran into some issues with the tutorial that he's working on—he's got some cool Halloween stuff coming up. Thankfully I had recorded this one earlier in the week, so we swapped. There's not an associated project with this one. It's mainly a review and demo of Lockdown. I wanted to see how well it'd work and I was pretty blown away.

If you happened to see Lockdown from 2019-10-18 03:57:48 +0000 UTC View Post

Tutorial 196 project file

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Tutorial 196: Better Forklift

Before watching this one, make sure you've seen Part 1! Again, Master Properties in After Effects enable us to make complex rigs. This week, instead of building our forklift in Affinity, we built a model in C4D. I built the initial model and lighting setup, and Sev set it up with Redshift lights for a clay render, and built puzzle mattes so that we could color our objects. By rendering a greyscale versi...

Tutorial 195 project files

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Tutorial 195: Forklift

Master Properties in After Effects enable us to make more complex rigs than we could previously. And because of that, we're going to talk about techniques to rig objects. We start with a simple cube that has some pretty cool behaviors. It can flatten into the ground, which means it comes with its own transition built-in. It can also be scaled without scaling its strokes.

Then we take a look at a rigged forklift. All of the colors have been linked to control layers so you can change the ...

Elements - September 2019

Hi guys! Thanks for your support! If you like what we're offering, tell your friends! And if not, let us know how we can improve. If there's anything specific you'd like to see, maybe we can make it happen. So get in touch!

This month's elements include rendered F1 inspired widgets. There are also 19 LensFX clips included, this time in 4K. They were shot on RED and exported without a grade in ProRes 422LT so there should be a lot of color information. There is 5:00 worth of footage (7.8...

Tutorial 194 BTS

Sev didn't know I made some BTS of the thumbnail creation for his tutorial, so he didn't know to tell you about it. Here it is! Tutorial 194 BTS Thanks for your support!