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Scene 2 → Scene 3 in AERÉ is one of my favourite transitions.
The story moves from: access + flexibility to:
privacy + focus + rest
The exterior flight gives way to a warm cabin, and the message changes with it.
Good motion should support a change in meaning.
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from motion you control, not motion you watch.
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If you light a translucent material without a real environment map, your
scene renders black. Lighting is not polish you add at the end, it's a design
decision you make first, before you have anything to look at.
And if you want video to scrub frame for frame off scroll position with no
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people fight that stutter in JavaScript when the fix lives in the encode.
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seconds are usually the whole game.
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Still chewing on one thing. Where's the line where motion stops serving the
brand and becomes the thing people remember instead of the brand?
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