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GIFmas Tree 2015 - “Jester’s Court” and “Series of Dots” Rebound

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Merry GIFmas, everyone! Each year, I practice a tradition of introspection and reflection on the designs that I’ve created over that year, the inspirations which lead to them, and the techniques that I used to create them. I then create a new design in the shape of a tree, but composed of design elements from the year past. I call this tradition “GIFmas”.

And so - I have created another GIFmas tree, pulling ideas from two of my designs created in 2015. First, “Jester’s Court” (March) - from which I derived the scene layout, materials, and lighting. Second, “Series of Dots” (February) - from which I derived the object arrangement and motion.

Original “Jester’s Court” design post

Original “Series Of Dots” design post

I could certainly write more words here, 2015 having been the best year of my life so far - but I’ll keep it short and sweet. Merry GIFmas everyone, and I hope that you all have an amazingly creative and productive 2016! :D

For those interested, here are some of my previous years’ GIFmas Trees.

GIFMas 2013 Tree

Wonderful Collaboration Series by Cale Bradbury ( Netgrind ) and Conor Bell ( macbooktall )

The “Gems” series

The one and only Hypnotic gif maker Feliks Tomasz Konczakowski

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Process Growth Pains - Protobacillus Variant

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I’ve been been analyzing the works of another motion graphics team recently - a power duo by the name of Protobacillus, who use After Effects in a lot of their work. I saw the potential to transform of my designs to look like one of theirs. So this design is a post-processing variant of one I just created, named “Process Growth Pains”.

Temporal Shift [Lucky News Man reprise]

[original gif]