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Work!

So, we’re working on something sort of big. Technically it was announced a day or two ago in a quite public manner that still floors me, but I’m not sure how much I can talk about it until itâ€...

Smudges

I often want to dirty up some procedural textures with things like smudges (on the black knob) and a lot of what I have is from paid packs, etc. that I can't share. So I'm releasing these free to e...

Introducing the Workbench Multi-tool!

That's a lot of space, but this thing can be tiny. So what is Multi-tool? It is our way of fixing ...

Texture Hunters International

Hi everyone! Thanks for your support. Here's a new video drop, ANNDDD a new model + textures. There are more textures to come from this when I get a moment to prep them so keep an eye on your email...

Adobe is listening

Warning: earmuffs. There's no chicken noises bleeping this one out. 😂 Our friend Joe joined us—well me—on a rant after After Effects annoyed me yet again. We have another video in the queue,...

Nither: It's not a dither. Kind of.

Hi! Thanks for your support! Today we have an interesting procedural dither-ish effect. I was screwing around in After Effects with my usual

Hi! Thanks for your support! Today we have an inte...

The Grid

Hi! Here's an After Effects project I was playing in. It uses the idea of creating mattes based on posterized brightness levels and then combining them using glows and blurs. I'm using Deep Glow 2 ...

New Video!

In this video, we discussed AI. How we use it when we do, where it's going, and what we think the ultimate goal of it is. We try to figure out the future, but this is the hardest moving target to h...

Cloud Chamber

I've had this on my hard drive for a little bit, but I finally got the time to organize it a little into something cohesive. It was a couple

I've had this on my hard drive for a little bit, b...

Gobos

Hi! Here's a pack of Gobos (21 total, plus a video file from Corona) that you can use in your 3D scenes, or you can also use them in your 2D work if you want. None of them are animated, but they co...

Burnout Doesn't Always Mean You Stop Creating

Latest video is up. It'll go live tomorrow (unless I notice something when I rewatch it!).

Sev and I revisited the topic of burnout from our first video back, and discussed it a little deeper...

Electric Text Effects

Two posts in one day! This is an After Effects project that procedurally uses a text animation to build two electric-style effects.

Two posts in one day!

This is an After Effects projec...

WIP: Updating our Channel Intro (Part 2)

Our latest video is hot off the presses! We're about to push it live to everyone, but here's a slightly early preview. We would've posted it for you guys yesterday, but we didn't have the ...

New video!

I would've posted this yesterday but it got an automatic copyright check on it, even though our whole channel should be cleared from our licensor so I had to submit a protest. It was fixed quickly,...

We're back!

We figured we'd post this here first since you are all our most loyal people. Workbench is back but it's evolving. As far as Patreon goes though, we're moving along as normal, but you'll probably s...

Found Textures

Hi! Happy Monday—or whatever day it is when you see this! I scoured the net for textures and built an AEP using them for a sort of true crim

Hi! Happy Monday—or whatever day it is when yo...

Topographical Lines

This is a fun procedural setup in After Effects based on a Photoshop tutorial from TextureLabs.

Hi everyone! Thanks as always for your support. Here is a fun procedural setup in After Effects...

Candlestick Chart

An After Effects setup to build a randomized candlestick chart

Hey! We've been doing a lot of 3D lately, but we've finally got some new After Effects content. We were working on a spot that i...

Alien Transmission

A new model of a satellite dish built for Patrons

Hi everyone! Thanks for being our Patrons! We have more stuff in the queue, but I took a bit building this, and now I'm finally sharing it! 2025-03-18 22:01:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Retrofuturistic Record Player

Hi everyone! Been a little busy on some things, but I had a moment to get out this record player I built last night.

You might've also seen this on X in a teaser for our next plugin. We're ba...

Hangout Today!

We're going to do a hangout with Sergei from Ukramedia today at 1pm EST!

Join us here!

rndrtime 1.0

Here's a quick Python script I wrote today to calculate render times for folders of images.

And side note: this is so much better than holding onto and trying to organize these files by month...

Elements - September 2024

September elements and an update on element delivery for the future!

Hey everyone! We have some news. Obviously we get behind when we're busy and we have these files ready, but they need to b...

Hangout

Sorry for the late notice but we're going to do a hangout with Ukramedia in 40 minutes if any of you would like to join. 1pm Eastern.

2025-01-17 17:22:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Elements - August 2024

Project files for August!

Hi everyone! Here's another set of delayed project files. This one seems small, but there's a lot in it. Everything for the scene above is included, as well as many ...

Elements - July 2024

July's elements for patrons!

Hi everyone! Thank you all so much for your concern, support, and your patience—especially with this long delay, and especially with the even longer hurricane d...

We’re OK

Should’ve sent this sooner. We’re ok. I’m without power. Sev had power when I checked on his house. Obviously it’s going to be a it for us to finally get our files out but I wanted to let y...

Hurricane Update

We're really trying to get out the files amongst other work, but we also keep having to prep for hurricanes. I've been trying to finish this scene for a bit, and it's finally ready to go. So again,...

Update!

Sorry for the delay everyone! We've been mad at work though. We're building a bunch of stuff so it's taking a bit. I've been learning Blender, Sev's been working in Plasticity. We both went out and...

Elements - June 2024

June's elements for Patrons!

Hi everyone! Thank you all so much for your support and your patience, especially with this long delay. We're now caught up! Here are June's elements!

2024-07-23 19:06:35 +0000 UTC View Post