Andrew

Maine ➡️ NYC 🏙️
Animator / Technical Director / Rigging Artist
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[Andrew @andysrobots]

Believe it or not, AE Bezier Tools is still on the way! 😅 Code and UI ~90% there - testing and debugging is slow when you're one dude with other responsibilities. I'll be posting updates over the coming weeks. 🙇🏻‍♂️

[Andrew @andysrobots]

Here's an #aftereffects extension project I'm hoping to release soon. 🤞🏻

A suite of curve tools with a focus on making it easy to create smooth 2D & 3D shapes and points using spline algorithms and applying them to shape paths, layer masks, motion paths, keyframes and more.

➿ Spline Types:
🔹B-Spline: Matches a Uniform NURBS curve visually and makes a great general-purpose spline.
🔹Catmull-Rom: Good for when you need a curve that closely follows its control‐polygon and passes through it's vertices.
🔹Natural Cubic: Great for motion paths, design elements with continuous flowing shapes or smoothing data/keyframe values. Like Catmull, it interpolates it's control vertices.
🔹Cubic Bézier: Same as AE’s default native Bézier spline for curves and motion paths. Convert any path to nulls, or selected layers to a curve. Every component is assigned a null for total control. Optional Tangent Continuity controls make it easy to automate tangency in different ways at each vertex.

📍Tracking Point Nulls
You can generate points along curves for any spline type, with multiple methods to position and orient them on the curve surface. Orientation in 3D is handled in a way to prevent sudden flipping or twisting as a point traverses a curve.

🛠️ Other Bézier curve utilities:
🔸Generate Cubic Bézier segment from any four layers
🔸Quadratic Bézier segment from any three layers
🔸Arcs and circles
🔸Various Bézier Warp tools
🔸Split curves
🔸Offset curves
🔸Get curve-line intersections, curve-curve intersections and curve bounding boxes
🔸Curve fitting
🔸Get curve data such as speed or how much a curve is bending at any point and use it to drive animations
🔸Higher order Uniform NURBS (discrete)

#aftereffects
#splines
#bezier

[Andrew @andysrobots]

@quismotion Awesome work. Bezier Warp has been languishing for years without an update. The ability to add expressions to every component of a surface + back-face culling/two sided opens up so many rigging and & animation possibilities AE desperately needs.

[Dedouze 🧢 Andry @dedouze_]

Big update in our #blender3d addon, animate full 3d poses with hand drawn timing charts
https://t.co/5r0MZ4Zwth
(music of this preview from Deer Breeze by S Kiyotaka)

[Andrew @andysrobots]

@dedouze_ Amazing work! I did this for After Effects but the path only draws the correct trajectory and frame spacing for reference - it doesn't affect animation like this. Now I'm inspired to maybe update it to do that as well. 😆
https://t.co/3A6PLjN9VJ

[Andrew @andysrobots]

It can be difficult to check your arcs & spacing when doing character animation in AE since it doesn't have anything like onion skin, so I like using this simple tool I made for #aftereffects. I'm curious if others might find it useful. 👇🔗

[River @Krimsin117]

Spectral, via my own code.

Was tough creating my own visuals and getting used to the math but happy with the results for my first one.🫶

Breakdown coming soon. #MotionGraphics #ae

[Nick Greenawalt @motionbynick]

no one else will find it impressive, but this is what goes into a 20s after effects animation:

[EbubeRPG | Designer @ebuberpg]

⚡️

[Animation Obsessive @ani_obsessive]

From: MIMT (2024), dir. Ted Wiggin

Full film: https://t.co/PIX4l0Hw8Y

[Andrew @andysrobots]

@saumotion Thank you! 😁

[Paul Thureau @ThureauPaul]

@IsThisA3DModel Yep @Nomad is kewl ✌️

[Seter @SeterMD]

This is how i rigged Tentacles in Spine2D.
I have been using new features of 4.3 beta A LOT. You can get really creative with them.
Art by @monoco55
#イドリー #Yidhari #zzzero

[Andrew @andysrobots]

@yammiesweet @cmzw_ I can't speak for Blender, and I don't have a tutorial right now, but you can check my bio link for .aep files to check out if you want.

[Andrew @andysrobots]

Check my bio for an updated version of this file - it's been cleaned up and simplified quite a bit so it's easier to look through.

[Andrew @andysrobots]

Here's the Balatro After Effects project file I mentioned (1/4):
🃏 All 150 jokers
✨ Foil, Holographic, Polychrome effects
🖼️ Background and shadow settings
🅱️ Balatro font is in the zip - install to avoid "Font missing..." AE popups
(AEP saved in AE 25.5.0)

[Andrew @andysrobots]

@motionbynick lol just wrap it in a try catch

[Andrew @andysrobots]

@cmzw_

[MiuA 📦 Merch GO Open @akira_yoru]

🩷💍 #Cyrene #HonkaiStarRail #HonkaiStarRailPartner

Animated in After Effect✨️

[Andrew @andysrobots]

@motionbynick You got me

[Andrew @andysrobots]

@yunisdead Thanks again. No tutorials, sorry. There's a stripped-down After Effects project file that focuses on just the reflection & specular setup here: https://t.co/WosSZo4CHM
Might be a bit much if you're new to all this, but I commented layers and most expressions.

[Andrew @andysrobots]

🧊🥶🧊

[Andrew @andysrobots]

@yunisdead Thank you! 👽