Fraser Davidson

I’ve been using a ChatGPT sidekick to create expressions for After Effects, it’s amazingly powerful. I wouldn’t know how to do anything remotely like this or the all important ‘search term’ required to make something like this. Was an absolute doddle.

New stuff in the studio ✨

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Some Joysticks n Sliders work

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Some BTS

Phone to the rescue. A piece remade and up resed for the reel.

Get it straight from the horses mouth: @cubstudio.bsky.social

We have a new Cub Studio showreel for 2025. www.cubstudio.com

🎮 Dive into Super Jonny 100K! We’re breaking down one of our favorite projects—a retro 1980s-style video game made in After Effects & Cinema 4D.

From inspiration to techniques, learn how we brought this 8-bit world to life!

Case Study: www.cubstudio.com/super-jonny

From previs to final render.

Some #c4d and #deepglow for an animation test. Followed by some bts in the thread.

Oof, I’ll take that. Thanks dude. 👍

Ha, just read a load of twitter commentary. People on there write about mj like they want to be friends with it.

Here is some BTS showing the simple rig.

Some more joysticks n sliders work. This time using just layers and masks in AE. I used a 3D head to get the parallax right.

Totally worth messing about to bring to life Dan Soder’s Macho Man impression.

Quite a range of movement available with enough forethought.

Here’s Jesse Ventura wriggling around in real time in After Effects.

And then why not a 3D head?… so here are the previs just grinding around each using a joystick.

But then, why not attach pre-rendered limbs also?

A while back I had an idea to use joysticks n sliders to animate prerendered 3D elements of a character. You can see the 2D limbs pinned to a 3D torso here.

Been playing with Spline make little interactive 3D scenes.

Thanks Thom. 👍

A far less charming 3D version.

Awesome 80s and 90s car liveries. Can you name them all?!

A close up of the action.

Here is the final piece! All cars rendered in after effects for infinite quick render permutations!

You can see how the car runs along and tangentially to a spline.

Started rendering a whole track in 3D, perhaps that could move a little too?

Added cars and tyre effects and smoke etc plus more cars!