Audio Spectrum

Audio Spectrum

This was an experiment with the Audio Spectrum effect in After Effects. I learned how to extract keyframes number values from an audio track, in this case Poison by Prodigy. Each audio cue produced a keyframe for me, and I linked a rectangle’s scale property to different frequency bands within the song.        ...
Proximal Sphere

Proximal Sphere

Back in March 2015, I learned how to use the Proximal effect in Cinema4D. This is a crucial effect used to “expose” a material on an object. This is great when you need to show an object in one state, like glassy red text, but at some point you’d like to “pass through” and make a secondary material visible. .  ...
Radiolarians by Maria Grønlund

Radiolarians by Maria Grønlund

Maria Grønlund walks us through the process of combining some basic effects in Adobe Illustrator to create a versatile, easily customizable (and rather haunting) sphere design.     Look at all the incredible applications for this! You could easily create your own underwater creature scene for lots of different uses    ...