Latest News & Whatnot
Vimeo and donQmedia posting dates change
From this date forward I'll be posting my tutorials on donQmedia's website two weeks before making them public on Vimeo. In the past, I published on both sites simultaneously. I'll be using this short announcement format to inform you when a tutorial is in the works and when it will be released.
Next tutorial:
Updated: 20 March 2020
The next video to be published will be in the Duik Bassel Interface section titled Add & Edit Bones Panels. It will be posted on 20 March 2020.
To be announced.
Regards,
jmg
Latest Tutorial
Duik Bassel’s add & edit bones panels
The Add Bones button creates guide layers so that you can animate vector points and their Bézier handles independently. You can use them with shape layers, including masks, as well as puppet pins, and…
Latest Software Notes
After Effects 2020 JavaScript change
If you're like me, you took no notice when Adobe updated After Effects's expression engine. This isn't about the change in the expression field, where different components of your expression are represented by different color text as well as some other changes. This is about…
Spotlight
Bézier curve
Bézier [BEH-zee-ay] curves are mathematically generated curves using parametric equations, which are equations that map out the point coordinates of a geometric object1.
bone
The term bone, in animation, refers to a structure that gives control and shape to an animated object. In a character puppet, a group of bones can resemble a skeleton-like structure, often referred to as an armature, but bones can also be as simple as a single point.
Notices
This website can go without updates for long periods because I’m working on projects which make my tutorial production time limited. If I start a tutorial series, consistent periodic updates will occur until the series is completed. New tutorial series, along with a timeline of publishing dates, are announced in the News and Information section below. Also, the latest tutorial is always posted below that section.
Regards,
Jared
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