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Playing around with color
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Color palette vote 🎨
Same product. Same layout. Different color direction.
Which palette feels stronger to you and why? 🎨
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The warm cream palette feels stronger
Back from vacation and back to creating. ☀️
Summer is a great time to take a break from deadlines and try out new ideas.
Lately, I’ve been playing around with Cinema 4D simulations. I’ve mixed cloth, inflation, and dynamics to turn a regular sneaker into something fun and eye-catching.
I think personal projects are the best way to quickly grow technical skills. Each experiment is a chance to discover new workflows, improve problem-solving, and bring fresh ideas to future client work.
Always learning. Always experimenting.
I’m excited to keep making more product animations and motion design projects.
#Cinema4D #MotionDesign #3DAnimation #CGI #ProductVisualization #Redshift #Simulation #CreativeProcess #ProductAnimation #3DArtist
Two posters. Everything from Envato — foil texture, font, tape PNGs. Sound design in the video too. One tab.
The build: texture on the background, text in Glanterd, then I brightened the texture, flattened the text and used it as a mask on top. So the foil on the type is the same asset as the background. I also applied the good old BG blur on top for a frosted glass effect.
Human by Design moment: it was done. Technically. And it looked boring. So I went back to Envato — not to fix anything, I just knew it wasn't there yet. Found PNG tapes, dropped a few on, moved them around. That was all it needed. AI would've called version one finished. It wasn't.
Something I'd actually ship to a client.
@envato #envatochallenge
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