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@coltongeil

Motion Designer in the PNW. Posting animation, experiments, doodles, and other such things.

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Explosion practice…

07.03.2026 18:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

2 has done nothing wrong :’(

05.03.2026 01:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ahhh it’s beautiful! Why can’t my city look like this

02.03.2026 02:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Quite more! That’s looking rad.

23.02.2026 09:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Please though

23.02.2026 02:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure if this is related, but something that rubs me the wrong way in these big superhero movies, is that it’s often like 6 heroes vs. 1 villain in a fight.

21.02.2026 00:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The real trick to motion design is just having a bunch of nulls. Unnamed and only half in use.

18.02.2026 22:24 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I thought most of them were like 10 min. in that series. What run time are we capping it at here? Also, the official discord can be quite insightful.

12.02.2026 07:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not there anymore, but The Original Burrito Co used to be the talk of the town back in my day. (Was in high school though…)

12.02.2026 07:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A frame by frame rough pass for this gummy guy falling in a hole.

10.02.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Windows 11 just randomly started to automatically trash my files because they couldn’t find the path… they changed(??) That was a frightening 15 minutes of trouble shooting.

09.02.2026 07:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah! Where is everyone? Please let us know if you ever find a thriving online animation community. Rip Twitter from a decade ago.

08.02.2026 21:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

(Sorry, it was sarcasm. I didn’t actually think it would be useful.)

08.02.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Did anyone even TRY asking it to cure all diseases?

08.02.2026 09:48 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Today we feel. We can be sensible tomorrow.

03.02.2026 05:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œBut…but… it’s got puppet pin, so.”

02.02.2026 20:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

01.02.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 16722 πŸ” 4842 πŸ’¬ 94 πŸ“Œ 73

Just saw this tip in AE today, thank you!

22.01.2026 09:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sure, yeah it’s nice to already have that faith in someone’s character built in. Although, I have enjoyed being part of the interviewing process and talking to people I’ve had zero previous interactions with. It can be exciting to go in as strangers.

19.01.2026 22:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œEveryone in the studio already knew them.” How is that? Used to work with them elsewhere, conferences, or were they big on social media, etc?

19.01.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

How do you personally refer to the phase of creative projects where you (temporarily) lose hope/enthusiasm/optimism/focus?

Valley of despair, liminal phase, the dip, etc.

It’s a kinda fun exercise to recognize it when you are in it. So it’s nice to name it.

16.01.2026 04:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow wow wow, such lovely form!

13.01.2026 06:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ohhh the lack of the node view is the scary bit. I do feel like Moho has one of the friendliest UIs, though

31.12.2025 03:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No nodes, nothing to hide from!

31.12.2025 00:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

How very awesome!

26.12.2025 01:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm old.

If you're not, listen to this.

Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.

Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.

It's literally never been more important.

27.11.2025 04:21 πŸ‘ 8914 πŸ” 3276 πŸ’¬ 141 πŸ“Œ 155

Thanks! And yep, I’m on 14 Pro. I really like it. I think they’re a really good company. I’d say it’s fairly friendly to learnβ€”the UI is simple at first glance. Some ideas take a while to learn properly, but compared to Blender or anything like that, it’s easy.

26.11.2025 23:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Here’s one I enjoyed animating in Moho. It’s so much fun to utilize frame by frame and interpolating key frames together. #animation #moho

26.11.2025 21:47 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Let us know if you find an answer! I don’t know where to begin with abstractions.

05.11.2025 01:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0