After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Swarming Shapes

August 10, 2015, 11:08 AM

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We were commentating on a Faceoff competition at the annual Motion Conference, where three artists have to finish an opening animation within an hour while onstage with the hosts breathing down their necks. That year's project involved beer branding, and one contestant decided to animate bubbles rising in a glass. They drew and animated one bubble...then hand-animated another...then hand-animated another...and soon had to move on to another part of the task to meet the deadline, when more b...