A conversation about dungeon crawling for life and commerce

A conversation about falling into development and the dev process in 2025

Thoughts about entering a new decade

Third time's the charm

Adobe render management and mp4 compression when that wasn't a thing

Cel animation in Photoshop and a connection to Ae

Sharpening The Battle Axe w/Adam Plouff

Motion design helps guide users, giving context and providing clues on how to best navigate. But it hasn’t always been easy to integrate this new field into established UX design workflows.

Making money in mograph

How I was less productive but found new ways to enjoy my life.

There and back again. A story about Google and Overlord and Battle Axe.

A form of rigging is born. This was the birth announcement.

A gift for Ash on our 10th anniversary

Originally designed as a fundraiser for MS research

Linking pins to a hose

Connect layers at their joint

New styling in Rubberhose 2

RubberPin takes all the simplicity of Rubberhose controllers

New rigging method for working with externally created art layers

A form of rigging is born. This was the birth announcement.

April Fools Day at Google Maps

A podcast about life and animals and animators

The project got killed, but I had a blast

During the development of RubberHose, I got an amazing request for illustrating and animating Elvis and his influence on dance throughout history. The project was ultimately killed by the client and I've just been cleared to show it.

9 squares reunion

The first Battle Axe tool. It's still an industry favorite

This special 9 Squares round was created as part of onedotzero’s event. For this round, each square was composed of a deconstructed version of the #dotdotdot branding: circles, dots, and lines in black and white.

A penrose heptagram and the love of numbers

Floppy ears using AutoFlop

A form of rigging is born. This was the birth announcement.

Rubberhose does not use traditional IK and does not use externally created art

From the beginning of development, I wanted RubberHose to be built on Shape Layers

With RubberHose, layers can be parented to the ends of Hoses

What is a rubberhose?

Celebrating trainer certification with Ash

Another RubberHose test exploring some of the subtlety that can be built into a walk

The first Rubberhose walk cycle ever

A reel in for a friend

A simple explainer that helped invent Rubberhose

More code that keyframes for depth

Tracking 3D positions with trails

The first round of an outstanding motion industry collaborative project

Exploring path drawing based on motion

Drawing strokes between points along polygons

Ultra wide show open for a small tech conference

Proof of concept for an element in a character rig. Been playing around with .valueAtTime() for creating motion delays and waves and wanted to see if it could work for hair.

7 is a pretty crazy number that appears to have a strong significance in most religions (as well as being the defining trait of the main religion in Westeros).

While exploring the geometric construction of an equilateral triangle I accidentally found the Deathly Hallows.

I’ve been playing around with geometric constructions lately (compass and ruler). It’s easy to take for granted how the computer draws shapes, and it’s pretty incredible how all these things are interconnected.

The isometric view in the previous file made it tough to see what what going on. As did the uniform styling of all the interior lines. The few merits of this technique are: interior lines, multiple styles on strokes and shapes at vertices.

Exploring some of the possibilities of a flattened platonic solid and the sacred geo it produces. Vertex data generated in C4D sent to AE to drop in shape layer strokes.

Colab for a chicken restaurant

Learning new skills like rigging and diapering

A gift for Ash on our 5th anniversary

Giant Ant's community animation project that helped me get started animating

Trying to draw effects. Poorly.

Scaling without resizing

Trying to draw people walking. Poorly.

What if you clamped the vertical position of circles?

Productivity apps come and go, but paper is forever

Faked pixel-art with Mosaic

Doing my best MC Escher impression

A whole bunch of CC Sphere

A whole bunch of CC Sphere

CC RepeTile with tiling set to Random

A whole bunch of CC Sphere

Created with CC Glue Gun. It works like Write-On but the stroke width settings can be animated for each part of the stroke.

It ain't good, but at least I was working

Embarrassing work from from a (very) junior designer