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After Effects Progress 8/2/18

For my own reference.

-In a layer, Alt + [ trims the left part (beginning) of the layer to be where you’ve placed the timeline cursor. Alt + ] trims the right part (end) of the layer to be where you’ve placed the timeline cursor.

-Right-click keyframes -> Keyframe Assistant -> Easy Ease. Speeds up beginning of keyframe animation and slows down end of keyframe animation. Great for making the animation flow better and look less boring.

   -You can click the graph-like symbol near the left part of the timeline to bring up the Graph Editor. This lets you toy with the keyframes. You can move them to change their timing, or you can alter their trajectory (like with pathing) to alter the speed at which they go through their animation. They will still complete the animation within the timeframe, but you can adjust the line graph to, for example, start the first few frames of animation quicker.

-Highlight keyframes and do Alt + right arrow to move them to the right about 3 frames.

-Ctrl + right arrow to move timeline cursor forward by 1 frame.

-Ctrl + left click on keyframes removes the effects you had on them, like Easy Ease.

-If you scrub through timeline while holding Ctrl, you can hear the audio while you scrub.

-Press L twice on audio layers to see the waveforms.

-Press U to collapse a layer and all of its specifications (Position, Scale, etc.)

-Ctrl + Shift + Right moves the timeline cursor forward 10 frames.

-The whip setting on a layer lets you attach one layer to another. This lets the whipping layer follow the whipped layers keyframes. Ex: one layer is growing text, the other is an underline. Whip underline to growing text layer, now the underline scales up when the growing text layer scales up.

-Every time you transform some object, whether it’s a shape, text, etc...be wary of the anchor point. To adjust its position - for example, putting it in the center of the object - look for the pan behind tool on the tool bar.

-flatuicolors.com is a great place to instantly have a color copy+pasted to your clipboard. It even makes a cute sound effect when you select a color. :)

-Ctrl + D allows you to duplicate layers.

-Right click a layer and select “Create Shapes from Text.” When this layer is selected, you can go to the top tool bar and find “Fill” and “Stroke.” Holding Alt while clicking Fill or Stroke lets you alter from normal to gradient to no fill. To do the cool effect as in the video I saw, make “Fill” no fill, and Stroke any color I want.

   -You can select those letter outlines by holding Shift and clicking. Go to layer, hit Add -> Trim Paths. Has all the individual shapes/letters, but also has “Trim Paths 1″ with a “Start” and “End” option. You can use keyframes here to basically have outlines traced/animated over where the shapes are supposed to be.

-Motion V2 is a paid but very useful plugin that speeds up some of the processes described here by giving you easy ways to do them. Ex: adjusting the anchor point of objects is a simple click instead of click + drag just right.

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With thanks to @justbadpuns for helping me realise my full potential as a serious artist.

Sans and Papyrus buy a looooot of milk. Having Frisk around also means they’ve ended up doubling what they usually buy. The store bunny’s gonna kick them out in a second. But she’ll let them come back. They’re loud but they never actually break anything so they’re rather harmless. The Nice Cream Man is probably my absolute favourite secondary character in the game. He’s so sweet it’s ridiculous. He just came to buy some ingredients! D’: Normally I’d try and avoid having Frisk talk on camera, but there was no way for this joke to work without having them say something. Sorry about that. Hopefully it’s not too jarring. I had to use 3 different fonts on this thing and it physically pained me. That’s bad design, kids. Don’t do that type of thing. Unless the characters you’re drawing talk in font-specific text. I’m not a 100% satisfied with the paneling here. I wanted a closer zoom on the bros on the second beat but because Papyrus is SO FRIGGEN TALL I had to keep it rather zoomed out to fit both of them in frame. Despite this though, I’m rather happy with the over-all results here. I’m really happy with a LOT of the posing here. I changed how I draw Papyrus by just a fraction and decided I could loosen up with his expressions a bit. I’m happy with the results it’s 4 in the morning and I’m going to bed now.

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There can only be one

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Always defending, always objecting. No matter what, I'll be there for you. I'm your Ace Attorney; Phoenix Wright! Happy Halloween.

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goddammitdylanobrien

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A great deal of me not making any work has to do with my being worried that it will not be good work, but I know that I will never make any good work if I do not make any work at all. Despite knowing this, no work is made and I am worried it is because I do not want this as much as I thought I did. An idea that terrifies because of how much time and energy I have put into this. I am not sure what I want anymore.

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Poor guy :(

“U SUCK LUIGI”

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Ohhhh man, he pulled out the okike o!!! This guy is so in........!!!!!

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.....Maybe it was Steve Holt.

STEVE HOLT!

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psychokinetic kids

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am i kid

or am i a squid

if im a kid, then im a very squiddy kid

finished piece

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“For short”

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“This isn't most people,

This is JonTron” 

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1996

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Rosetta stone does more than teach Spanish through immersion technology. It also teaches you how to be a dick