March 2022 Wrap Up!

Hey everyone,

I hope March wrapped up nicely for you and all is well! I had a nice little getaway last week - drove to Southern CA to see some family and a few close friends for the first time since 2020. As always, brought the camera gear long and made a few extra stops to shoot some images for the site. I'm pretty excited about some of the new textures...  check out the NEWEST section on the site! Uh oh - just realized the “Most Popular” section has 0 textures in it. I’ve got some code troubleshooting to do!

A few new favorites:

New tutorial:

MOVIE TRAILER GRAPHICS IN AFTER EFFECTS

In case you missed it, back in After effects for some movie magic. I’m never sure if I should get too into the details of client work on the YouTube channel - but I used this AE setup on both the Mary Poppins Returns and Lego Batman Movie trailers... Pretty versatile!

In other news:

A huge thanks to Lupus Nensén, Audrey Fauteux-Robillard, and everyone who provided feedback on the Real 3D plugin. I’ve got a version with pretty much all the kinks worked out ready to submit to Adobe. It also has a few extra features - I figured out how to add additional layers along the way, so we can create objects with multiple levels of detail. I’ll put together a post when I get this version wrapped up!

On the homefront:

A swarm of bees had been cruising around the neighborhood for the last week looking for a new home and finally parked on a tree in our front yard. Great to see them thriving, but we called a local beekeeper who came to help them find a more ideal home. Pretty incredible to see nature at work! I thought about trying to stick my camera in there for a “bee swarm” texture, but thought the risk might not be worth the reward…

Hope you’re well and, as always, a huge thank you for the support! More on the way...

Cheers,

Brady