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5. Jumpin' Wall (test)

by Andrew Spirk

4 months ago

4. Sketchbook Beats

by Andrew Spirk

8 months ago

3. Quick & Dirty Superbad Keying Tutorial

by Andrew Spirk

8 months ago

2. Drakes in the Sky Track Test

by Andrew Spirk

8 months ago

1. Superbad Intro Re-creation Test

by Andrew Spirk

1 year ago

A little rough around the edges, after effects keeps crashing from memory overruns (which I don't get) so I just left this as it is for now.

Almost forgot; Music: Soda Popinski - Javelin

Edit: Not sure exactly how it's related, but I fixed my crashing problem by removing the open gl plugin. AE is rock solid now.

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Annie 8 months ago

Wow!... That is soo clever...I LOVE IT! :)))))))))))))))
Very cute :))))
How do you do it, it's great :))))))))))))))))))))))))
Top Job! ;))))
Andrew Spirk 8 months ago

Thanks Annie!
It's a bit messy still, but it was fun to make.
Marley 8 months ago

Great clip Andrew.....
Andrew Spirk 8 months ago

Thanks Marley!
3to1 Studios 8 months ago

Awesome work and I loved the tune!
Andrew Spirk 8 months ago

Thanks, I really appreciate the comment :)
rick fiduccia 8 months ago

Way COOL ! Wish I knew more about After Effects
Claudia Robinson 8 months ago

that is too cool!!!
Andrew Spirk 8 months ago

Thanks for all the comments :) All this feedback is really great to hear.
Charles Huettner 8 months ago

maybe this is a dumb question but have you tried changing the memory & cache settings under preferences to fix your ae crashing problem?
Andrew Spirk 8 months ago

I did yeah :( I really can't figure it out, while I was working on it I was crashing every 2-3 minutes on average. It doesn't crash randomly, it's when I'm doing things that take a lot of calculation. Ram previews suffer as well, running fine for a bit, then suddenly running out of ram after multiple previews. A quit to desktop and restarting AE does the trick for now. I'm going to figure it out sooner or later.
The perils of a wintel machine.
Reyer Kolle 8 months ago

This is excellent, i too have tried motion tracking and it always is sketchy. It looks great tho, i cant see any flaws at all.
Andrew Spirk 8 months ago

I totally feel you, it's a pain in the ass. Thanks for the kind words :) If you're going to do a planar track, I can't recommend mocha enough, it's packaged with AE and it's the best planar tracker I've seen. I used Mocha for this.
Jrbazil 8 months ago

Quality Andrew... Love this !
Andrew Spirk 8 months ago

Thanks! :)
Matthew Bambach 7 months ago

Really cool idea and I love the 8-bit music!
Andrew Spirk 7 months ago

Oh dude, no idea how I missed your comment. A long overdue thanks for the comment :) Love your sound and motion video.
Rob E. 7 months ago

wicked video, just one question though, did you keyframe the squares or did you use soundkeys or something?
Andrew Spirk 7 months ago

I used sound keys for the squares, it was my first time using it, so it's a little rough.
Rob E. 7 months ago

I dont think its rough at all, you did good;)
Rob E. 7 months ago

Oh yeah forgot to ask... when AE kept on crashing did you try purging the memory, under edit>purge>purge all?
Andrew Spirk 7 months ago

Thanks man :) And I didn't try that, hmmmm, I'll have to give that a go, thanks for the tip.
Tom Larkin 7 months ago

Soundkeys is incredible! I wish that there were more than three selectable regions per effect though.. Did you track using Mocha?
Andrew Spirk 7 months ago

Edit: I think I forgot to reply to your comment, and instead made a new comment, so... fixing that. :)
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Yep, used Mocha for tracking, I had points drawn on the paper to give mocha some help, and then replaced the paper. Sound Keys would be great if they allowed more than 3 regions per layer, but you can see how taxing it is when you apply even those three regions to something. I used a total of 6 layers of Sound Keys for this, which was one of my major problems with AE crashing.
Bran Dougherty-Johnson 7 months ago

This is very fun! Nice animation and love those colors ...
Andrew Spirk 7 months ago

Thanks very much Bran :)
Dave Lester 7 months ago

Very cool. Simple and inspiring!
Andrew Spirk 7 months ago

Thanks Dave:)
Benjamin Dowie 7 months ago

This is so cool! Love it.
Andrew Spirk 7 months ago

Thanks!
Бојан 7 months ago

Most creative video! Truly brilliant!

I'd love to see the video of how it was made! :)
Andrew Spirk 7 months ago

Thank you very much Бојан, I may put together a tutorial, but it was really very simple to do.
Quincy Boardman 7 months ago

Sick!!!!!
Andrew Spirk 7 months ago

Thanks Quincy!
Brian Boudreau 7 months ago

Very cool!
Andrew Spirk 7 months ago

Thank you Brian!
Jordan Fountain 7 months ago

Phenomenal! Great Job!
Time Koder 5 months ago

Very nice, reminds me of the first computer recording class I took back with the DX7 oh so many years ago...
Justin Nathanson 5 months ago

super