David Duncan | Motion Design Blog

I decided to forego the tradition of creating a character “walk cycle” and instead opted for a more fun “skate cycle”. This skate cycle features professional skateboarder Paul Rodriguez. Hopefully more to come!

Two different design styles, same Lava Lamp. The blobs were fun to animate! Shout out to @kyletmartinez for his Inner Stroke preset!

Around the bases! Made using C4D and AE.

Finally finished this thing! Simple idea, but the hardest part was getting it to look right design-wise. I had fun making this and the music credit goes to the late great J-Dilla, “Jay Dee 39″ from The King of Beats II LP.

Here’s a throwback (Thursday) to an animation I made about a month ago. I was really happy it was Friday :)

Something I made for somebody special on their birthday :) Custom hand-drawn font made in Cinema4D with the spline wrap deformer extruded along a capsule.

Something I made at work.

Homework Assignment #2 from jr.canest’s tutorial series on LearnSquared.com

I started doing a tutorial series on this website called LearnSquared. It is instructed by jr.canest. The first lesson had me doing cel animation in Adobe Animate, aka Adobe Flash. I haven’t felt this embarrassed about my work since I was back in art school! Nevertheless, I still want to post all the work I do while learning so I can go back and track my progress.

Here is the result from another @eyedesyn tutorial I followed. This one was about the pose morph tag in Cinema4D. I wanted to morph a skateboard in to a VHS tape to signify my love for skate videos, but instead I settled for an ode to music production featuring a keyboard morphing into an MPC.

Here is the final result from a tutorial I followed by E.J. Hassenfratz @eyedesyn called “How to Morph Between Splines in Cinema 4D”. I used 80′s/90′s hip-hop vocabulary and a color palate inspired by the band Boris’ “Heavy Rocks” albums. This was a lot of fun to make!

These are some shape explorations I made in Cinema4D. My goal was to be able to deform this cube/sphere structure and still have it hold together without falling apart. I was finally able to figure out how to do it and then I just tried to have fun animating some different variations.

A little test I made using C4D. I was inspired by some corporate graphic design templates I saw at work and wanted to know if I could recreate and animate it for use as a background texture. The result is completely different from the corporate branding version and I think it almost looks very aquatic.

Something I made for a logo animation at work. Not an original design or animation idea, but it gave me a chance to use some of the easing techniques I learned from @handeleugene once again.

Here’s the same little animation test with the easing trick I learned from @handeleugene, only this time I rendered using Sketch & Toon.

Learned a cool little easing trick from @handeleugene yesterday. Decided to try putting it to work in C4D. Here’s the result!