Rob Barrett
@robbarrett.bsky.social
Freelance Technical Director and Motion Designer in Berlin. I also make After Effects scripts and tools.
https://rob-barrett.com / automotion.tools
https://rob-barrett.com / automotion.tools
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Rob Barrett
@robbarrett.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Hello Bluesky! I'm Rob, a freelancer in Berlin working with brands to create motion design toolkits, templates, Mogrts and videos. Alongside this, I build tools for #AfterEffects, and aim to share more of my development process here. (I also like to nerd out over D&D ⚔️)
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Random Selection Order function added to Random Roller: use with AE's new Quick Offset feature to add random offsets to layers and keyframes!
Select your layers or keyframes and click this button to reselect in a random order.
aescripts.com/random-roller
@adobevideo.adobe.com @aescripts.com
Select your layers or keyframes and click this button to reselect in a random order.
aescripts.com/random-roller
@adobevideo.adobe.com @aescripts.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Random Selection Order function added to Random Roller: use with AE's new Quick Offset feature to add random offsets to layers and keyframes!
Select your layers or keyframes and click this button to reselect in a random order.
aescripts.com/random-roller
@adobevideo.adobe.com @aescripts.com
Select your layers or keyframes and click this button to reselect in a random order.
aescripts.com/random-roller
@adobevideo.adobe.com @aescripts.com
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i think, on a fundamental level, my biggest issue with *any* corporate LLM solution is that it's built to destroys community. It rips up everything that various communities of people have built together and repackages it all -uncredited- as a shiny, new thing.
August 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
i think, on a fundamental level, my biggest issue with *any* corporate LLM solution is that it's built to destroys community. It rips up everything that various communities of people have built together and repackages it all -uncredited- as a shiny, new thing.
There's always some hidden gem you don't know about in #AfterEffects! I'm looking forward to finding a few of them!
🆕 Pleased to share that 💡Tip of the Day💡 is back and better than ever in After Effects beta!
Open an empty comp window to see a helpful tip submitted by an AE community member (maybe even yourself?). Here are a few examples; there are more than 100 in all.
community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...
Open an empty comp window to see a helpful tip submitted by an AE community member (maybe even yourself?). Here are a few examples; there are more than 100 in all.
community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...
August 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
There's always some hidden gem you don't know about in #AfterEffects! I'm looking forward to finding a few of them!
New #AfterEffects script! Random Roller allows you to randomly select layers, randomly assign layers to groups, and sort layers into a random order.
🎲 BEND CHAOS TO YOUR WILL 🎲
25% off until August 15th at @aescripts.com!
aescripts.com/random-roller/
🎲 BEND CHAOS TO YOUR WILL 🎲
25% off until August 15th at @aescripts.com!
aescripts.com/random-roller/
July 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
New #AfterEffects script! Random Roller allows you to randomly select layers, randomly assign layers to groups, and sort layers into a random order.
🎲 BEND CHAOS TO YOUR WILL 🎲
25% off until August 15th at @aescripts.com!
aescripts.com/random-roller/
🎲 BEND CHAOS TO YOUR WILL 🎲
25% off until August 15th at @aescripts.com!
aescripts.com/random-roller/
New website! 🌟 I've got upcoming availability to help with After Effects toolkitting and other technical projects.
rob-barrett.com
rob-barrett.com
Rob Barrett Design – Technical Director & Motion Designer
2D Motion Design Technical Director helping clients optimise After Effects workflows and pipelines with Mogrts, motion design toolkits and templates, and expression rigging.
rob-barrett.com
June 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
New website! 🌟 I've got upcoming availability to help with After Effects toolkitting and other technical projects.
rob-barrett.com
rob-barrett.com
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Hello citizens of the European Union, there are only 125,000 signatures left for this petition to be taken into account! It really does take 30 seconds.
EU citizens, please take 30 seconds to sign the European Citizens' Initiative to ban conversion therapy (torture against LGBTQ+ people).
Only 1 day left to meet the criteria of 1 million signatures.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public
Only 1 day left to meet the criteria of 1 million signatures.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
May 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Hello citizens of the European Union, there are only 125,000 signatures left for this petition to be taken into account! It really does take 30 seconds.
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New post! My YouTube obsession is paying off: kevinparry.tv/blog/my-yout...
May 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
New post! My YouTube obsession is paying off: kevinparry.tv/blog/my-yout...
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Went on a walk with a cat!
Pretty photogenic ❤️
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Pretty photogenic ❤️
🐈⬛
May 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Went on a walk with a cat!
Pretty photogenic ❤️
🐈⬛
Pretty photogenic ❤️
🐈⬛
It's the last couple of days of this first week of the
@aescripts.com Summer of Sales! Which #AfterEffects tools are you picking up?
aescripts.com/learn/summer...
Here are my recommendations ⬇️
@aescripts.com Summer of Sales! Which #AfterEffects tools are you picking up?
aescripts.com/learn/summer...
Here are my recommendations ⬇️
Summer of Sales 2025
For one week during each of the summer months, we will be featuring a select group of authors that will have their entire product catalog on sale for 25% off. Click through to see which authors are on...
aescripts.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
It's the last couple of days of this first week of the
@aescripts.com Summer of Sales! Which #AfterEffects tools are you picking up?
aescripts.com/learn/summer...
Here are my recommendations ⬇️
@aescripts.com Summer of Sales! Which #AfterEffects tools are you picking up?
aescripts.com/learn/summer...
Here are my recommendations ⬇️
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Our Summer of Sales starts May 12! For one week during each of the summer months, we will be featuring a select group of authors who will have their entire product catalog on sale for 25% off.
aescripts.com/learn/summer...
Promo designed and animated by Duo Team
aescripts.com/learn/summer...
Promo designed and animated by Duo Team
May 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Our Summer of Sales starts May 12! For one week during each of the summer months, we will be featuring a select group of authors who will have their entire product catalog on sale for 25% off.
aescripts.com/learn/summer...
Promo designed and animated by Duo Team
aescripts.com/learn/summer...
Promo designed and animated by Duo Team
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So my girlfriend is an amazing stop motion animator, and she recently did a medieval cat themed bumper for Adult Swim!
Sharing it here because she only has Instagram and I think everyone needs to see her animations. She's so freaking talented, y'alls. PLEASE go follow her!
Sharing it here because she only has Instagram and I think everyone needs to see her animations. She's so freaking talented, y'alls. PLEASE go follow her!
May 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
So my girlfriend is an amazing stop motion animator, and she recently did a medieval cat themed bumper for Adult Swim!
Sharing it here because she only has Instagram and I think everyone needs to see her animations. She's so freaking talented, y'alls. PLEASE go follow her!
Sharing it here because she only has Instagram and I think everyone needs to see her animations. She's so freaking talented, y'alls. PLEASE go follow her!
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God, do you know how refreshing it is to see a list of design rules that basically amount to "stop worrying so much about the rules, this is a cartoon"
Style-guide pages by Alex Kirwan for Mickey Mouse (2013–2019), developed by Paul Rudish, Disney Television Animation
April 10, 2025 at 4:26 AM
God, do you know how refreshing it is to see a list of design rules that basically amount to "stop worrying so much about the rules, this is a cartoon"
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I’m turning 40 🤯, and this year I’m giving out the presents! Between April 7th and 16th, buy my #AfterEffects scripts #Loopy or #MarkerMover, and get 40% off!
🚨 Find out more at automotion.tools or @aescripts.bsky.social
🚨 Find out more at automotion.tools or @aescripts.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I’m turning 40 🤯, and this year I’m giving out the presents! Between April 7th and 16th, buy my #AfterEffects scripts #Loopy or #MarkerMover, and get 40% off!
🚨 Find out more at automotion.tools or @aescripts.bsky.social
🚨 Find out more at automotion.tools or @aescripts.bsky.social
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Fell down a rabbit hole reading about Susan Kare - the woman behind, oh, you know, most of core foundational icons and fonts in computing history - and reeling about what a massive goddamn flex her portfolio is.
www.behance.net/susankare
www.behance.net/susankare
March 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Fell down a rabbit hole reading about Susan Kare - the woman behind, oh, you know, most of core foundational icons and fonts in computing history - and reeling about what a massive goddamn flex her portfolio is.
www.behance.net/susankare
www.behance.net/susankare
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
For the first time in three years, my rogue summoned his familiar as something other than an owl. We were going underwater: finally, a chance for a new form! She lasted 10 minutes before my DM killed her. So, of course, I had to print the cutest, tiniest octopus I could find to guilt trip him.
March 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
For the first time in three years, my rogue summoned his familiar as something other than an owl. We were going underwater: finally, a chance for a new form! She lasted 10 minutes before my DM killed her. So, of course, I had to print the cutest, tiniest octopus I could find to guilt trip him.
I finally had a little time to take a look at #Rive… and my first project was using it to create a mockup of the #AfterEffects timeline 😅 This is an interactive tool to demonstrate the different types of #expression loops available in AE (for an upcoming Loopy documentation website).
March 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I finally had a little time to take a look at #Rive… and my first project was using it to create a mockup of the #AfterEffects timeline 😅 This is an interactive tool to demonstrate the different types of #expression loops available in AE (for an upcoming Loopy documentation website).
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A fantastic line-up of films playing at this little indie cinema in Berlin right now. I'd go for a triple feature here and watch all three back-to-back why not. Love all three of these films. #cinema #KinoIntimes #kino #Berlin
March 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
A fantastic line-up of films playing at this little indie cinema in Berlin right now. I'd go for a triple feature here and watch all three back-to-back why not. Love all three of these films. #cinema #KinoIntimes #kino #Berlin
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WB is scrapping finished feature films and shuttering historic game studios to drag their dividends up a few percentage points.
$3.7M is a 10-person indie cooking for three years. Sony's Concord money could have funded a hundred of those teams, any of whom could be sitting on the next Minecraft.
$3.7M is a 10-person indie cooking for three years. Sony's Concord money could have funded a hundred of those teams, any of whom could be sitting on the next Minecraft.
Flow was made in Blender and cost only $3.7 million -- but it defeated Hollywood at the Oscars.
This is a huge moment for its team. It's just as huge for European animation, and the ecosystem that nurtured Flow, Robot Dreams and so many other films: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/flow-takes...
This is a huge moment for its team. It's just as huge for European animation, and the ecosystem that nurtured Flow, Robot Dreams and so many other films: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/flow-takes...
March 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
WB is scrapping finished feature films and shuttering historic game studios to drag their dividends up a few percentage points.
$3.7M is a 10-person indie cooking for three years. Sony's Concord money could have funded a hundred of those teams, any of whom could be sitting on the next Minecraft.
$3.7M is a 10-person indie cooking for three years. Sony's Concord money could have funded a hundred of those teams, any of whom could be sitting on the next Minecraft.
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February 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM