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Having some fun recreating Cavalry's animations inside After Effects.

Finally got the Convex Hull working, close to what I wanted, but I messed up the toComp() so I brute-forced the rotation with a position expression😂

Based on Cavalry Explorations from Antonin Waterkeyn

Made in AE 25.2
April 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It's happening!

I can finally talk about this fantastic project we made for Pepsi Smart Can. (a LED can, crazy)

This is one of many assets I made, aside from one of the three primary sequences, the system startup.

Check the Behance Project below ⤵️
February 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I randomly found this 15-year-old plugin made by Philipp Spoeth

and damm

It's fantastic (and free)

Link ⤵️
February 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Yey, I finally found a way do inscribe shapes without having to use Linear(), just some simple calculations.

Took a while since even GPT was having a bad time trying to figure this out lol

The ellipse threw me in a Math Habbit Role for some months, but it worked out
January 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is the original video tho

I was messing around with expressions to keep a Text Layer centered and stacking some Text Animators.

If you animate the scale, the bounding box updates, creating some cool interactions
January 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I'm trying to make some "Cavalry" inside After Effects, using only one text layer and text animators.

Can't say it's worth the hassle, but it's fun anyway

If only it were possible to access the anchor points inside text layers (maybe one day)

*Convex Hull expression by Arne Digernes (check below)
January 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM