The Latest - October 2021 (Patreon)

Hey everyone,

Happy Halloween!

It was a seemingly uneventful month here… up until the West Coast megastorm showed up and knocked down a tree and flooding our property, taking out our power, phone and internet! All is well now, but there's still a huge mess to clean up. I know a few of you guys are also in the Northern CA area… everybody good? I’m also seeing news that the East Coast may be experiencing a similar event at this very moment. To our East Coast friends - hang in there and try to stay dry!

In other news, it's always fun to see your graphics out in the real world... I just cued up the new Justin Bieber movie to see if they're still using the opening logo animations I created - they are! This was a project from a few years ago - I created the reveals for Bieber and SB Films (Scooter Braun, the quintessential "celebrity manager"). Bieber was very insulated - I never met with him in person - but his feedback was courteous and reasonable and left me with a nice impression. His manager, on the other hand...

In any case, just for fun, I posted up the graphics here:

https://vimeo.com/640598513

The finished SB Films logo is still fun for me to watch - I designed the basic animation in After Effects, then painted each frame using watercolors on 11x17 paper. Scanned them, inverted the colors and added just a little glow and grain.

In Texturelabs news, some new stuff out of the lab this month, which I hope will prove useful!

TUTORIALS:

1) Chrome Text in After Effects or Photoshop 

2) Quick tip for converting Black and White to black and Transparent and more

(This one will be released next week, but here’s a link for the prerelease)

TEXTURES:

A mixed bag of new elements this month, adding to various sections of the site. Here are a few favorites:

As always, a huge thank you for supporting the project. Hope it's a great November!

Cheers,

Brady

ALL NEW TEXTURES: