Hello. Welcome to three bees in my bonnet blog. A blog of lots of things from nonsense to AI, PSD and AE tutorials. I also like to get proper hands-on and bake, sew, crochet, paper cut pictures and sometimes, pop-up cards and 3-d paper models.
Do you remember the little ditty from way back? A noisy noise annoys but a noisy noise annoys an oyster most? All well and good. Totally incidental. Well, maybe a tenuous link to my post today. I’ve been working on Ben Marriott’s Colour Bleed and checked the difference between using a Fractal Noise Blend (Soft…
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I’ll give you two, actually. Remember the tutorial from a previous post back in Dec 2020?: Do you wonder if there’s a quicker way to do something in Illustrator? There’s a tutorial on there to create the As in illustrator. I used them to create a very quick and simple animation in After Effects And you…
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Like the struggle to reach a magical oasis in a desert, Ben Marriott’s spinning cube was a journey worth the effort of making. I was in love with the whole effect and had to know how it was created. And now I know! This is my version after following his tutorial. It’s glorious. Wonderwalls Wonderwalls…
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I’m determined to do something with this blog, I’m making an effort to add content. Thankfully, my life has lots of yellow splodges to look forward to. These are highlights I add to my calendar. I like to look at the month ahead and see lots of yellow dates highlighted – they represent fun days.…
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I’ve written down the steps to create the animation above. It’s cute. Use your imagination to set up the scene as you wish. These instructions are just about using the text and text animators. Okay… let’s begin. Create a New Comp and import your background files to set your scene. Type in text, eg, ‘Motor’.…
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The blog has been neglected for a long time now and I was going to let it die off and start afresh with new name, site logo, etc. Despite cancelling WP account and payment authority, it all got reactivated, reinstated and the funds were drawn down. So the blog lives on for at least another…
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Don’t we all have an inner child that sees magic in glittery sparkles streaming across a screen? Just for a second, don’t you feel the love? Everybody loves sparklers! I’ve put together a quick learning video with everything you need to make sparkle paths using Adobe After Effects. I give you the easiest, most straightforward…
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Have you ever watched a tutorial and felt a bit peed off when there was an animation that just wasn’t explained? An effect that just ‘made’ the whole thing? This happened to me when I saw the intro to a tutorial that included an uphill wobble effect that displayed some text as it moved. I…
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