Category: VFX and Motion Graphics

For my daughter’s high school graduation, we’re making her a scrapbook of her life so far. In addition, it’s become a family tradition to make a video scrapbook as well. Of course, I have to outdo my sister-in-law, who made two template-driven…

If there is one effect set that I need, it’s sci-fi user interface elements. In any movie or TV show that’s set in even a moderate future, there’s always a UI that’s filled to the edges with indecipherable widgets, graphs, meters, and…

This is the current stinger I’m using on my Twitch/Mixer live stream. I modeled it on the 1960’s Batman TV show stinger, because why not? In the actual version in use, the background is replaced with a chroma green color so that the…

This was another attempt to replicate a video I saw on TV. The original was featured in a car commercial and only focused on a single fold-out panel at a time, while the camera moved along to focus on that panel. But…

This is a pretty common effect. So common that I think when I was done, I was reminded of intro videos of 1970’s variety shows. I have no explanation beyond that. I started this after the unfolding video because I wanted to see if there…

When looking around the Internet for inspiration, I came across a small animation that you might see on a magazine website or even a commercial. It featured tiles sliding into the picture to reveal an image beneath, and when the tiles slid…

Although maybe not completely necessary, it seems that a number of “good” Twitch/Mixer live stream channels use “starting soon” or “be right back” screens. These can help viewers know that the stream is running, but there’s some behind-the-scenes stuff that’s being dealt with. One…

I had been trying to come up with a concept for a stinger for my Twitch/Mixer channel and had seen one that was in use by my friend Pixel_One for her channel. It two panels that came together in the center, followed…

The flying logos video is used as my outro video on my Twitch/Mixer channel. The gist is that I wanted to a video that represented my “variety streamer” status (i.e. I don’t broadcast just one game most of the time), so I…

I got the idea for this animation when watching a video for the XSplit live streaming software. In this video which talked about recent updates, they featured an animation which had several different icons morphing around the screen. This version isn’t as…