Here is what is available for August's elements on Patreon or directly via Gumroad.
After Effects
- Ink: A project to composite the ink effect built in Cinema 4D (shown below)
- Xray Shader: The project used to build the thumbnail (shown above)
Cinema 4D
- Halftone: A shader that builds a halftone look using a light for density, similar to something you'd see in Spider-Verse (shown below)
- Ink: A setup to build an ink effect as if you dumped it into water (shown below)
- MATCAP: Experiments testing the new RS MATCAP shader (shown below)
- OSL Depth: A shader that can add a blurred texture that appears to be within an object to add an interesting depth to objects (shown below)
- Reflector Cone: A shader setup to build retro-reflective surfaces (shown below)
- Xray Shader: A shader to build an X-ray style similar to the old Go Bag promo from Nik Hill/Red Giant (shown below)
Additional Elements
- Texture: There's a quick scratch texture built from Midjourney elements (shown below)
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Here is what is available for July's elements on Patreon or directly via Gumroad.
After Effects
- LUT Selector: A super useful rig to quickly step through all of the base AE LUTs—and you can add your own—so you can quickly choose one
- Terminal: An update to a rig we built that has an automatic blinking cursor (shown below) There's also a Broken CRT variant (shown above)
- Waterfall: A couple of handheld videos we took of a waterfall, matted out to mainly just the waterfall (shown below)
Cinema 4D
- Glass Shatter: A quick shattered glass setup, used to make the mattes for the thumbnail (show below in viewport)
- Gravity Slider: A couple of setups to fake an inertial sliding camera rig (shown below)
- Paint Strokes: A paint stroke setup like Handel Eugene previewed at Siggraph '23 (shown below)
Additional Elements
- 3D Scans: A few scans from our roadtrip to Arkansas—the rocks are the cleanest (shown below)
- Textures: Photos we took in Arkansas, mainly around Hot Springs National Park, compiled into textures for use in 3D (shown below)
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Here is what is available for June's elements on Patreon or directly via Gumroad.
After Effects
- Custom Apertures: setup for custom apertures to use with 3D programs, especially C4D + Redshift (shown below)
- Dome: Look for an interesting dome render from C4D (shown below)
- Nixie Tubes: thumbnail look (shown above)
Cinema 4D
- Dome: quick model used to test custom apertures (shown below)
- Glow Logo 3D: setup for building a quick neon look in C4D (shown below)
- Mograph Transparency: setup to render only front-facing polygons (shown below)
- Nixie Graph: setup to build a graph using nulls to build a spline, rendered like a glowing wire (shown below)
- Nixie Tubes: rigged Nixie tube elements that can change numbers (shown above)
- RGB Push: an experiment to use an image map to displace points of an object
- Rope Dynamics: setup using dynamics to create a strand of lights on a wire (shown below)
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Here is what is available for May's elements on Patreon or directly via Gumroad.
After Effects
- Words2Layers script: rename layers with letters from a word or word for word
- Orb: thumbnail look (shown above)
- Experiments: freemosh (shown below) and radial sort with AE Pixel Sorter 2
Cinema 4D
- Auto blinking light: setup based on image texture (inspired by Ian Hubert)
- Pancakes: flopping pancakes with a Sketch and Toon shader
- Sketch and Toon: simple outline and intersection setup
- Sketch Steam: setup to make sketched steam
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Here is what is available for April's elements on Patreon or directly via Gumroad.
After Effects
- Flippa script: flips layer order of selected layers (best to assign to a keyboard shorcut)
- Enumerate script: batch numbers project panel items
- Console: thumbnail look (shown above)
Cinema 4D
- Chainmail: dynamic chainmail example (shown below)
- Linked Noise: setup to link displacement from one object to another
- Paper Strips: response to a patron question about this setup (shown below)
- Photo Swap: rig to take a photo grid and shift the UVs to show individual photos
- Stitching: rig for a 3D embroidery effect (shown below)
- Texturing Example: experiment to build tire tracks in sand using Redshift shaders
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Here is what is available for March's elements on Patreon or directly via Gumroad.
After Effects
- Radial Array: rig to set up a radial array that automatically adjusts based on the amount of nodes (shown below)
Cinema 4D
- Claw Machine: thumbnail look (shown above)
- Claw Machine Rigs: claw and cord rigs (shown below)
- Redshift Shaders: swirly shaders (shown below)
- Text Edge Generator: a generator to make edges on text that can be trimmed (shown below)
Additional Elements
- HDRaI: HDR AI? Get it? No? OK fine. It's an experimental Fusion setup and Midjourney images faked with expanded gamut for "HDRIs"
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Here is what is available for February's elements on Patreon or directly via Gumroad.
After Effects
- Counter Blur: rig with a counter that automatically (and approximately) blurs with the speed of the counter (shown below)
- Griddy: setup for a gridded image look (shown below) based loosely off of a Texturelabs tutorial
- Pyramid: parameterized pyramid primitive rig
- Swapping Comps: a simple setup for selecting
- Web Text: thumbnail look (shown above)
Cinema 4D
- Cloud Font: rig for making text out of clouds with Redshift
- Letter Transition: rig for the thumbnail (shown above)
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Here is what is available for January's elements on Patreon or directly via Gumroad.
After Effects
- Auto-List: rig to automatically lay out items horizontally, similar to one of the modes of StackIt
- Hand-Drawn: rig to utilize hand-drawn text (shown below)
- Text Blocks: a rig for generating credits from a CSV (shown below)
- Vintage Look: thumbnail look (shown above)
Cinema 4D
- Extruded Pixels: rig to make extruded pixels from a vertex map
- Ice Hole: a procedurally generated hole (shown below)
Additional Elements
- Hand-Drawn: 12 4000x4000 hand-drawn elements, mainly locators, but some miscellaneous ones too
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Here is what is available for December's elements on Patreon or directly via Gumroad.
After Effects
- Glitchy Text Animators: expression-based text glitching using text animators
- Map Distribution: look treatment (shown below)
- Quantize Movement: expression setup to quantize movement
Cinema 4D
- Balloon Text: rig to trigger fabric inflation using a vertex map (shown below)
- Fabric Triggering: setup using fields to trigger and pin fabric with a vertex map (shown below)
- Image Reveal: setup using Redshift's Shader Switch to transition from a color to a group of images (shown below)
- Map Distribution: displacement in Redshift (shown below)
- Materials: setup for making dots on an object in Redshift
- Quick Tip: how to copy all of the user data from one object to another
- RS Fog Box: quick setup for making volume-based fog in Redshift
- Viewport: thumbnail look (shown above)
Nodebox
- Map Distribution: setup to build a height map using population data
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Here is what is available for November's elements on Patreon or directly via Gumroad.
After Effects
- Days Since: thumbnail look (shown above)
- Good Boy script: script to convert 2D layers to 3D without visually moving the layer's position
- Snatch and Grab script: experimental script to grab the latest screengrab from your desktop and import it into your project and project folder
Cinema 4D
- Days Since: scene for thumbnail (shown above)
- Dropping Banner: setup for a dynamically dropping fabric banner (shown below)
- Neon Shader: Redshift shader setup for neon text
- VDB: cloud vdb setups
Houdini
- Dropping Banner: setup for a dynamically dropping fabric banner
3D Models
- Cafe Lights: string light model
- Nvidia HVAC: joke model of an Nvidia GPU as a full size HVAC unit
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