Stardust: Creating UI Scan Animations with OBJs friedpixels 2019-07-05 | I've had a lot of request for tutorials on these animations so I quickly put a video together to walk through how I setup my animation and also making this effect from scratch.I know I haven't done any videos in awhile, there are so many new Stardust Features I haven't covered, BUT im just so busy! I will try to create some more videos for everyone soon. In the meantime, enjoy this one.0:01 Intro1:44 Walkthrough of my animation setup13:00 Creating the setup from scratch17:46 Wrap up / Final ThoughtsBest of luck in your stardust adventures.
FRIEDPIXELS TV/FILM REEL friedpixels 2023-12-15 | Title sequence work for TV & Film over the years.Thanks to MK12, Filmograph, and Alma Mater for the collaborations.
2022 Sizzle friedpixels 2023-05-25 | Another year of personal work sliced and diced into a montage of experiments, doodles and art. From a variety of software 2D, 3D, and VR -- enjoy!(slightly late sharing this, kinda forgot that it needed to be uploaded lol) Music: XEAPONS // DJ PROMOTE
Using shader user data in C4D with Redshift proxies. friedpixels 2023-03-03 | Learn how to create custom user data on your geo to control shader variations and how to access it after you export a RS Proxy.1. Intro 2. Demo 0:403. Build 1:404. Proxy Control 6:505. Wrap! 10:43Sorry for my late night quite energy. It took me 1 night to prep the scene and another night to do several takes to get the most concise flow. Always open to better solutions in the comments, let me know!
Stardust VDB overview friedpixels 2022-02-21 | A quick glance at the implementation of VDBs and volume rendering inside Stardust in After Effects.Trying to get into the groove of tutorials, been cooking this one for awhile. Hopefully if gives curious artist a few examples to get them excited about volumes in stardust!
2021 Sizzle friedpixels 2021-12-30 | A sizzle cut of personal projects from the past year. Virtual reality sculpting, animation and world building. 3D rendering and look development mixed with lots of After Effects experiments and stardusting.Cheers!MUSICDJ PROMOTEdjpromote.com
Stardust Grids v01 friedpixels 2021-03-31 | using Stardust to create fun grid based designs in a smart and simple way with tons of flexibility and possibilities! Recorded at night so sorry for the noisy video!Intro chat chat - 0:01 Look at Grid Examples - 0:38Setting the scene up- 1:20Initial Grid Emitter Settings - 2:17Square Based Particle Source- 3:40Particle Settings for Sprite and Rotation- 4:33Limited Random Rotations Quicktip - 5:03Using Field with gradient to affect rotation - 8:55Using Field as a Luma based time remap 13:17Showing Various examples of fields as texture offsets 21:49Scaling the grid based system by division or multiplcation - 25:10Outro - 27:08
Scan Object Vertex Order friedpixels 2021-03-21 | An updated to OBJ Scan Animation technique that I was exploring in another video but with some more specific information on the sequence order of a object. This is a solution in Maya, if anyone has a way to do this in C4D let me know!Thanks again Dara H!Previous Video:youtu.be/L0RLgHBY3eo
Hello! Im Friedpixels! friedpixels 2021-01-08 | I wanted to say hello and give a little background on the work I do and why I created this channel. Thanks for following along!
2020 Personal work sizzle friedpixels 2020-12-30 | This year has been hectic to say the least but I tried to keep my head down learning and exploring in my personal work. I did a lot of NDA client work this year so to recap, I wanted to celebrate all of the experiments and doodles from this year. Lots of exploring VR, rendering in Redshift and playing around in After Effects. Also this year I tried to do even more sharing through tutorials and presentations. I was fortunate enough to speak to 4 college classes, did a presentation for Maxon's Adobe Max event, and share lots of tutorials on here and live streaming on twitch.I will keep brining more tutorials to you on here, and thanks for following along this pixel journey.Best.Music: XEAPONSinstagram.com/xeapons
4th Dimensional Scan friedpixels 2020-11-25 | Playing with stardust creating this earth UI treatment.
Stardust How to VOTE animation! friedpixels 2020-10-26 | I created this particle animation for a VOTED personal project and people asked how to create it, so I created a stream to walk through this process. I did this live on twitch so its not a quick edited down version.
Using Stardust Splines in FUI friedpixels 2020-04-20 | A brief introduction to using Stardust Splines in After Effects, how i've been using them on recent projects, and how to quickly integrate nulls from 3D into After Effects into your comp.:01 Introduction1:45 Using Mask VS Splines Approach2:49 Spline Overview11:44 Client Project Examples16:07 Technique Overview with plugins and scripts18:15 Creating Nulls in 3D (Maya)22:00 Importing Nulls using Maya Live Link23:39 Creating Splines from imported Nulls26:40 Implementation overview27:40 Importance of Scene scale when working with 3D data & After Effects31:02 Technique SummaryPlugins / Scripts Mentioned / used in this processMaya Live Link:exchange.adobe.com/creativecloud.details.17593.autodesk-maya-live-link.htmlNull Swapper:provideocoalition.com/null_swapper_-_plexus_particular_utility_scriptRename Selected Layers:http://www.crgreen.com/aescripts
friedpixels Live Stream friedpixels 2020-03-26 | Let's talk about stardust! JK I have some free time and wanted to try this out! seems fun?
Quick Tip: Rendering Quill in C4D! friedpixels 2020-02-16 | I've been experimenting lately with exporting animations and scenes from Quill VR to C4D and rendering in redshift. I noticed there wasn't any videos about this workflow, so I thought i'd try to cover rendering in standard render and also how I setup my shading in Redshift.Let me know if you have any questions!Bookmarks::01 Intro:40 Exporting from Quill1:06 Importing FBX and Rendering with Standard Renderer3:13 Importing Alembic (ABC) and Rendering with Standard Renderer4:28 Rendering with Redshift6:06 Creating an alternate shader in RS with more control over the look8:13 Wrap up8:27 one more thing... creating a dramatic effect through emission and low light.
2019 in Personal Experiments & Explorations friedpixels 2020-01-01 | Put together a quick montage of some of my personal work over the past year. It's been such a wildly diverse year for me in client work and in my self driven work. From continuously learning more stardust stuff, jumping into Xparticles and Redshift to full on going into VR and learning Quill and Medium. I also love learning new stuff and believe in continuously building your toolbox of knowledge. All of my experiments have directly fed into my client work 100%.Thanks for following along. look forward to new stuff in the new year!Music: DJ Promote aka XEAPONSdjpromote.com
Stardust 1.5 - Physics Workflow friedpixels 2019-12-11 | A general look at how to setup physics in your particle animations, a look at the various settings, node properties and forces. Hopefully an overview of each aspect to serve as a visual guide to integrating physics into your scenes. Below I've bookmarked each subject / node talked about::01 Video Overview1:38 New Scene from Physics preset - Caching & Freezing cache / general settings8:21 Simple setup to examine the different forces available11:33 Physical Force - Directional Force14:20 Physical Force - Spherical Force17:10 Using the Replica node on frozen cache simulations19:51 Physical Force - Noise23:39 Physical Force - Path27:48 Physical Force - Connect36:57 Using connect to create fluid like movements38:41 Models with deformation + physics40:21 using live text as model source41:12 using custom OBJ for model and physics42:06 using custom OBJ to collide particles withFin!
A look at Quill and Medium on the Rift friedpixels 2019-09-24 | I recently got a Rift S and have been enjoying the crap out of it. It has some amazing tools for creativity and I just wanted to give a brief overview of Quill and Medium to those who haven't seen them yet. I am still learning and very new, but hopefully this gives a good intro to the apps and the tools available. There are some amazing artist who've already mastered these and please don't judge me for being new and late to these great apps!0:00 Medium2:20 - Tools intro8:12 Lights - Materials11:20 - Switch to Quill (sorry about framing)12:00 - Framing fixed in quill!13:13 - Poorly importing a model I can't see14:11 - Import Image14:48 - Example scenes exploration16:30 - Interface customization17:07 - Brush type overview19:59 - Animated brushes21:07 - Grabbing, recording over time while looping22:22 - Frame by frame brush stroke animation23:16 - Colorize brush options - also animation over time26:29 - Basic keyframing overview with a carrot29:37 - Looping keyframe animations through sequences31:38 - Duplicating animations and offsetting32:09 - Looking at example scenes 33:03 - power of scale as a reference for framing35:16 - shot with multiple duplicate objects with animations37:29 - Guy growing out of tree scene39:11 - Cat illustration39:39 - TV scene with character
friedpixels Live Stream friedpixels 2019-08-26 | Let's talk about stardust! JK I have some free time and wanted to try this out! seems fun?
Stardust 1.5 - brief look at meshing! friedpixels 2019-08-19 | There's a new version of Stardust (1.5) and I wanted to create a quick'ish look at some of the new features. Mostly taking a look at the new volume meshing. I haven't spent much time with it yet, but just wanted to go over the a test scene and one of the presets.I also talk a little bit about the new features on the Material node, volume caching, and other tid bits. Look forward to seeing what people do with this, it opens up a whole new world of creative fun in After Effects!00:01 - Intro00:48 - Node Workflow Introduction01:14 - Preset in new comp03:30 - Boolean 05:59 - Offset Node09:15 - Material Node updates11:38 - UV options14:30 - Test scene overview15:46 - Material - Normals affect Opacity 16:40 - Volume Caching17:48 - Volume offset
HeadScan HDR friedpixels 2019-05-27 | UI Scan exploration in 4k HDR. Wanted to test out exporting an HDR animation using After Effects + Stardust.OBJ Emitter.
001 - The Archivers, Remnants of the past friedpixels 2019-05-03 | 001The first entry into a new personal series I'm exploring. Three's -- focusing on focusing my personal time into creative experiments and explorations in a mini shorts. Sketches, Design, 3D, compositing to final -- exploring the process.Process here:friedpixels.com/threesSound by: Xeapons - instagram.com/xeapons
2018 Visual Mashup. friedpixels 2018-12-11 | Made around 111 personal projects / explorations / experiments this year. Here’s a snippet of some set to the sounds of @xeapons Lots of stardust, after effects, max, maya, c4d, anything really. Just learning, exploring, and making things.soundcloud.com/xeapons
Pixelization and Physics with Stardust in After Effects friedpixels 2018-12-05 | A look at creating a voxel like effect with particles and 3D geometry, animated through forces and gravity through the built in physics system.Definitely skimming the surface with this exploration, tons of potential with how flexible the setup is.Intermediate knowledge of Stardust Recommended.
Stardust Quick Tip: Scene Integration friedpixels 2018-06-18 | Working with elements in tracked camera moves can be a bit tricky when the graphics get complicated. Using the Transform node to help adjust multiple nodes with a global control can be a big help.This has been my approach , Hope it's helpful.
Stardust UI Walkthrough friedpixels 2018-04-23 | In this video we take a look at creating UI animations inside of After Effects with Stardust. Covering the basics from workflows that i've used in production and in experiments. From start to finish we take a look at the finished product and go step by step. Enjoy.
UI Exploration - Hand Scan friedpixels 2018-03-25 | Just wanted to play with some UI elements, shot some footage of my hand to play with. So much possibilities creatively with using stardust, tons of variations that could be explored. Created in After Effects with Superluminal Stardust.Working on doing some UI tutorials soon! Just a little more involved and trying to figure out the best approach.
Stardust: Particle Control with Fields friedpixels 2018-03-13 | A quick look at using the Field Node inside of Stardust to affect particles. Using a luma source to change the size and even texture of a textured particle.Still learning how to make these! (go easy on me)Hope it's helpful!
2017 Highlights friedpixels 2017-12-30 | I animated over 30 minutes of personal explorations this year using Trapcode Tao, Mir, Superluminal Stardust, Soundkeys and Plexus.Here's some of favorites chopped into a quick edit.More to come in 2018 with more walk throughs! Thanks for following along the journey.Cheers!
Stardust Experiments v2 friedpixels 2017-11-03 | Another round of experiments and doodles that I made during the summer ish. These are all from my postings on instagram, follow me on there for the latest. These are all done with stardust except for the cube tunnel at :10 (trapcode tao) music: Halpe & horror.vacui - Espacio y Tiempo
Look at 3D Particles in Stardust friedpixels 2017-10-25 | With the new Stardust v1.1 they've added some great new features including 3D particles! Here's a quick overview of some of the new features and settings to get you on your way to making some cool animations.
Stardust Step by Step Pink Lightning friedpixels 2017-07-24 | Inspired by the Step by Step motionographer series, thought it would be fun to record a stardust jam session. Freestyle making some lightning effects stumbling my way into something that I think looks interesting. I also uploaded some AE files here: bit.ly/2uNiNWK Enjoy!
time and Space friedpixels 2017-07-11 | Trapcode Mir + SoundkeysMusic: Halpe & horror.vacui - Espacio y Tiempo
Stardust Experiments friedpixels 2017-07-04 | A compliation of stardust experiments and doodles.www.friedpixels.comwww.twitter.com/friedpixelswww.instagram.com/friedpixelswww.superluminal.tv
Stardust Overview friedpixels 2017-07-04 | A look at the Stardust plugin for After Effects in comparison to the Trapcode Suite. This is the second explainer video I've ever made, so I hope you can look past my inexperience and enjoy the video. I'm just generally excited about Stardust and want to share that with the community. This is by no means a bash to the trapcode suite, anyone who knows my work knows that I live and breath that suite, this is just a comparison look. EDIT: I did this before the new Particular 3.0 was out, they added a unified 3D space and ability to emit from OBJS, but all node based comparison are still relevant.Introduction2:46 Emitters9:20 OBJ Emitters12:37 Auxillary Particles15:27 Particle Textures17:16 Node Based Workflows19:51 Fields & More22:50 OutroStardust:http://superluminal.tvTrapcode Suite:redgiant.com/products/trapcode-suiteFollow me on twitter and instagram:twitter.com/friedpixelsinstagram.com/friedpixelsfriedpixels.com
Tao Walkthrough friedpixels 2016-02-29 | First video of this nature for me -- so cut me a little slack as I ramble my way through some various experiments that I made in the Trapcode Tao beta. I tried to trim down some of the fat and crashes, but it is still pretty long! Sorry!Resource:redgiant.com/user-guide/trapcode-taoPSYou never realize how often you say ummmm until you record yourself, sorry guys was just freestyling and first time doing this!
