On VFX and MoGraph – Scopique's

Securely Insecure in the Knowledge

Scopique April 8, 2020

Thanks to the quarantine, I’ve watched dozens of videos on 3D modeling with Blender, and despite having watched dozens of videos on the subject before the quarantine, I feel that I’ve got a better grasp of about 75% of the basics that…

Element 3D for After Effects

Scopique December 31, 2019

Rounding out 2019 I spent some collected money on one of my long-term wishlist items, Element 3D from VideoCopilot.net. E3D isn’t a 3D modeling program. You can import 3D models in OBJ format, can lay down some primitives like cubes and cylinders,…

Choosing Expensive Hobbies

Scopique August 1, 2019

Little did I know when I started down the road of motion graphics and VFX that it would be virtually impossible to do so as a hobbyist. First, though, we need to draw the line between “motion graphics” and “VFX”. Motion graphics…

Kind of a Real Project

Scopique June 25, 2019

To date one of my two biggest hurdles in learning motion graphics and CGVFX has been thinking up something to do. When working with something on this scale it’s not like any idea is going to be easy, simple, or quick. Although…

VFX Goals: That D&D Commercial

Scopique May 24, 2019

Depending on your age, this commercial might not fire on any cylinders aside from how oddly surreal it is. The commercial is from Renault and plays in Brazil…and features live-action characters from an early 80’s Dungeons & Dragons cartoon. To say that…

YouTube Summer Camps

Scopique May 23, 2019

On the surface level, this seems like the kind of zeitgeisty opportunistic cash-grab we’ve come to expect from 21st-century shysters: Find something that’s insanely popular with kids that their parents probably don’t “get” (i.e. complain about in terms of “when I was…

Using Animation With Streamlabs Alerts

Scopique July 17, 2018

Most of the animations I’ve been working on have been put to immediate use on the broadcasting side of my live streaming efforts. These are the interstitial screen animations, the stingers, and the occasional “flare” widgets. The “holy grail” then are the…