Symmetry Expressions for Anchor Points and Positions
From the “Posted on the Blog so I Can Remember it Next Time” department: A useful expression for making things symmetrical.
After Effects, scripting and nerdery
From the “Posted on the Blog so I Can Remember it Next Time” department: A useful expression for making things symmetrical.
This is a script I should have written years ago. It’s fairly simple; it duplicates the selected layer in a comp, but unlike the built-in duplicate function it creates a new source for the layer in the project, allowing the copy and the original to be independent of each other.
If you want your AE project to access data from an external file to drive expressions you can use the javascript evalFile() function in an expression.
You can use text layers in After Effects as expression editors which means, among other things that a whole lot of layers can use the same expression. This has some big advantages: expressions update as you type, which gives you instant feedback. You can see and edit your expression right in the composition viewer, without … Continue reading Using text layers as expression editors in After Effects
Because of Lightwave’s rather broken undo system you need to save lots of incremental backups when you’re working on a scene. Mike Green kindly provides a script that makes a numbered backup of your file, so that your current copy keeps the same name. Drawing on his open source (yay!) script I’ve changed it so … Continue reading Save-n-Zip: automagic backups for Lightwave3D
I was doing some rigging recently, when something went wrong and the whole rig exploded on me. ‘By cricketty’ I thunk to meself, ‘there should be a stop button for expressions like there is for my bandsaw’. Those things could take someone’s leg orf. So I got out my scripting iron, and clickety-clackety wrote this … Continue reading Stop-‘n-Go – an emergency stop button for expressions
I was doing some research on screen and camera resolutions for some reason a while ago and came up with this illustration, listing all the digital video resolutions I could find in use as of 2016. PDF version here. Let me know about any errors or omissions.
The theme for the current AnimatedLoop twitter GIF challenge is #nintendo. So I thought I’d make a little animated documentary about how my daughter spends her day since she got herself a 3DS.
Here’s a gif I whipped up for @animatedloop‘s gif gallery. The theme is “Geometric”. I used After Effects, ImageMagick and gifsicle.
It’s tedious trimming the length of a comp to the length of a layer, particularly if the layer extends past the beginning or end of a comp. My first ever After Effects script makes it much easier.