Sam Boulay

Looking to break into the animation industry but unsure where to begin?🧐 Our very own Dean of Animation and Visual Effects, Alexander Williams, offers expert advice to kickstart your job hunt. From refining your demo reel to leveraging LinkedIn, these useful tips can help you land your next project! ✨ For the full list of advice, visit our website 👉 https://bit.ly/3wrMj6r #escapestudios #jobadvice #jobtips #jobhunt #animation #creativeindustries

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Breakdown: 3D Rotating Circles (Everything in Ae) Timestamps below 😉 Let me know if you have any questions. In this breakdown, I cover how I created this animation from start to finish. I hope you enjoy it! If you are interested in Dynamic Delay, you can get it here: https://lnkd.in/dmVd7iMb Timestamps: 00:12 - Step 01: Create Circle Stroke 01:09 - Step 02: Add Keyframes Before Using Dynamic Delay 01:38 - Step 03: Use Dynamic Delay 03:52 - Step 04: Add 3D Floor/Background 04:31 - Step 05: Light the 3D Environment 08:23 - Step 07: PreCompose & Add Effects 10:21 - Final Result #AfterEffects #Adobe #AdobeAfterEffects #MotionDesign #MotionGraphics #3D #Animation

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⭐️ 26 DAYS OF TYPE ⭐️ Baseball Using the power of Adobe Illustrator and the newly updated Adobe AI engine Firefly, we have been celebrating typography with one letter per day made out of something that starts with that letter. Why? Why not! We're having some fun with these new tools. From Zebra to Baseball, tomorrow we reach the final letter! Thanks for following along with this fun little activity! #adobeillustrator #adobefirefly #typography #26daysoftype #graphicdesign #adobe

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This question is for all the artists using some of the new AI video generation technology! I’m looking to implement some new workflows that go above and beyond. I’m putting together a 30 min montage of video that I would love to be seamless and fluid with potential to scale in a dynamic way and would love your input! What is your preferred generator when wanting to making really solid videos from a series of generated images? Which ones do you find have the most character consistency? What is your experience with editability and control after initial video generation? What is your favorite for generation that requires complex camera control and variation after the initial generation? Best results for uprezzing video that has artifacts and noise? Can’t wait to hear your feedback! The possibilities are endless and the combinations and permutations between platforms is mind blowing and quite limitless. Very exciting times my fellow professionals! John A Pils

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Compositing reflections is both easier and harder than you think. Once you understand the concept, it's easy. So what was my process like? 👉 Lighting the scene to "sell" a big fire behind the camera. 👉 Tracking the sunglasses (for the MATTE, not the reflection) 👉 Adjusting the matte's shape changes with a few keyframes. 👉 Track the background for the reflection. 👉 Add a secondary reflection to the edges. One thing to note: each of the two "lenses" act as a separate refection, slightly offset. Rookie mistake I made at first was treat the entire sunglasses as one reflection element when in fact they each are separated and should act as such. And I did take artistic liberties in not throwing it out of focus. Cuz technically it's reflecting something far behind the camera and the focus is on the glasses plane, but this just looked cooler. You can see I was playing with the blur early on but gave up on realism for the sake of clarity. Thanks Mendy Schwartz for the chance to flex my AE muscles :) #aftereffects #compositing #bts

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A Background Design used for the first season of Grimsburg! Catch the remaining episodes on FOX and Hulu! #animation2d #animatedseries #cartoonart #digitaldrawing #linework #backgroundart #digitalink #environmentdesign

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Hey Rob, I love the advise of following the dream, In all things in life, it's a good idea, but much of success in "living the dream" is LUCK. The luck of being born with a supportive family, having the right connections, and situating yourself in the right place at the right time (hard work is just a given). This is the entertainment industry: art. No matter when in history it is, only a very few will be lucky enough to be successful as an artist. If someone wants assurance of the usual goals of having a stable family, owning a home, and good retirement, I wouldn't suggest art or entertainment. If someone needs to create because going a day without doing it will drive them nuts - they will do anything to find a way to make a living at it. AI is going to kill the number of truly creative jobs in animation as surly as the automobile stopped the need for horses. There is no way around it. Personally would suggest looking at the profession of animation like becoming an actor, singer or professional athlete; go for it, but make sure you have something to fall back on, because only the very few get the luck of a full career.

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‘Window’…a Background design done for the first season of Grimsburg. Did a ‘A’ and ‘B’ version of the window shutters. #backgroundart #animation2d #cartoondrawing #digitaldrawing #linework #digitalink #environmentdesign

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Here’s a pack shot render of my completed Bandai CG asset. Textured in Substance Painter. The game's demo sequence was created by constructing the sprites as vectors, then sequencing an animation precisely like the original. #VFX #VisualEffects #3D #CGI #B3D #Compositing #SubstancePainter #Blender

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As the dominoes start to fall in the creative industry I'm going to try to offer some perspective that might bring some solitude and hopefully prevent the bleak outlook from bringing too many down. What we see happening is temporary in the grand scheme of things.. Now im not saying whats happening isnt worrysome, but in the long term we as creatives will bounce back. The driving factor of all this turmoil is the greed derived from that insatiable desire for "record breaking profits", not only is it not sustainable or conducive to quality work product, but it only drives innovation in the form of efficiency.. The most famous scenario of this is Apple computer in the 90s. Greed outweighed creativity and ingenuity, and Apples Board fired Steve Jobs thinking they could continue to profit without that ingenuity. They went bankrupt shortly after, forgetting about what made them special to begin with. Only later needing to hire him back and turn the company into what we know today.. As a creative, i dare say we are the Steve Jobs, being fired by Apple computer... But fret not; No amount of AI or Board of Director can replace the magic you create in the world and the time will come when theyll beg you to come back as their audience dwindles and profits tank. In the meantime keep your chins up and those Pencils and Pixels Sharp. 🤙

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Using a few more baseball to get some further VFX practice with #AdobeAfterEffects Been doing a lot of upgrading to the process! Being a small video company - I have to be a master with filming, editing, VFX, SFX, voice overs.. Etc.. This takes practice! #VFXWork #VideoProduction #SportsVideography #SonyA6700 #AfterEffects

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When to Hire a Motion Graphics Designer for Your Lyric Video Project

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I've just finished creating a loopable floating cloth animation for my PC wallpaper. The software I used includes Cinema 4D for the modeling, Octane for rendering, and Substance Painter for the textures. I have done all three versions for web, Android, and square formats. #Animation #Cinema4D #OctaneRender #SubstancePainter #3DArt #LoopableAnimation #DigitalArt #PCWallpaper #3DModeling #TextureArt #CreativeDesign #CGI #ComputerGraphics #MotionGraphics

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To use multiple cameras can be daunting. You have to sync them up. Many editing platforms have an auto sync feature, but that won't work if there's no audio (like when using a drone). Here's how you do it. It's easy. ㅤThis is day 21 of 30 days of Camera Tips to help you create better business content. ㅤ Tap follow to get the rest. #30CameraTipsIn30Days #videocoaching #contentcreation

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