If we ever meet in person I promise to tell you the whole story ;)

We got so lucky that we got to see two episode tapings of that series. They're all so good!

Anyways... Feel free to take my crystallization animation image and use it as you see fit! Hope you learned something about a cool technique. If you make anything with this inspiration, sent it my way.

I made these crystals in particular with a shot at high velocity but with high air density. A sub emitter leaves the crystal trails.

A second particular comp uses that as a sprite and scatters them around to fill space.

A third comp animates from white to black over time. Echo combines to a png.

This technique used to be used more in game development where memory sizes were critical.

As long as you have a flat color and the wipe always grows, you can stack them. This saves space over a unique image file every frame (with slight overhead) and is very flexible!

To get the icy SSS look, I CC composite the original texture over-top, then adjust levels to give the impression that the older areas are getting darker.

Here's what the transition looks like RAW

To animate the transition, It's just the threshold effect clipping only the relevant pixels.

Because 8 Bit images contain 256 colors per channel, you can save an 8.5second animation within a single png! (at 30fps) Honestly that's really long.

Not as much a fan of this one. As a beginner, I didn't understand the visual clues at all.

I started this when the mattress topper I had wasn't supportive enough. Now I do it because it's comfortable!