lead motion design / vfx @shortscut

Joined March 2016
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May 13
15 years ago i was making call of duty edits for $5 now, im helping ai companies make their own highlight montages
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we got our client 300K views in 24 hours (100% organic) for their launch here's a snippet of the VFX that brought our animated character to life more in-depth breakdown soon.. team @shortscut client @castformai
Jun 11
“don’t train your own model” is common ai advice. it's wrong. your token bill's the proof. today, we’re excited to launch castform into open preview. castform is the easiest way for you to train your own model, on your own data. open-weights models are performant and much cheaper. when trained on your task & proprietary data, they beat closed models. the thing standing between you and that was weeks of plumbing & years of ml expertise. with castform, model training is as simple as prompt engineering. @castformai bring your agent traces or raw corpora. castform turns it into training data, picks the right algorithmic recipes, manages gpus, and gives you an ide to watch and chat with your model as it learns. see what you can build with castform👇
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Music and blender animation by me!!
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Jun 11
absolutely hyped with @thatguybg’s post on our launch video for @castformai many long hours and passionate hands were involved in the making of this video
incredible launch video - very very original concept - founder is super authentic and compelling when he talks - elite editing given how few different shots there are - animation on the character is spectacular. looks like a pro worked on this. - dialog between founder and character is great and paced nicely - brilliant idea focusing on key questions people ask about their space - sound fx and music is solid - great scroll stopper, bold statement, social proof, etc but - only feedback is to add captions this is might be my favorite launch video of last 6 months. the biggest thing they nail is simply copying a PROVEN format from YouTube/film/TV. the physical board with google queries on it is something I've seen on tons of YT videos but have never seen on a launch video. and the animated character closely parallels pixar's characters. had they tried to change even a small piece of this or not executed it well, this wouldn't have hit as hard. not only is this an easy hack for coming up with video ideas, but it ALWAYS works. Founders Fund just did it with reality TV, TBPN did it with ESPN. spectacular work
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meet the toronto @shortscut team!
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top 3 things to make your motion design videos more effective and intentional
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2. sometimes less is more. many great motion design videos feature real substance (like product photos, video highlights, UI designs) and only use motion as a medium to transport the viewer through each part. a scene as simple as black text on a white background can be much more interesting than one with 100 layers.
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3. pretend you're the target demographic. watch your own video back, but put yourself in the target demographic's shoes. does the video make sense? is the pacing easy to keep up with? what are the main areas I'm most focused on? how does this video make me feel in the first 5 seconds? we often get so tunneled into our own creative view that we prioritize our own judgment over the very people who'd be watching. that 1 extra watch-through could change everything.
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rare standing desk owner that actually uses it
Happy Friday @pauldesign
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practice work in Cinema4D
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my team is so cracked HOLY
We’ve decided to gather together the best builders in the bay… on the bay. Our 89-foot yacht will bring together the 30 best applicants to have them battle it out as we sail out under the bridge for a final sunset demo. Is this a good idea? A terrible one? Who knows. But @composio along with @nebiusai and @tavilyai is determined to find out. And the winner is taking home a DGX Spark and $50k in credits. Apply by posting what you’ve built and tagging @ship_builders, @composio, @nebiusai, @tavilyai
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ty @thesimonkim for bringing vlogging to twitter ep 1 at shortscut
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May 28
clips from the projects I've worked on the past month
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May 26
what if you could fly
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May 24
the hotel im staying at looks like a scene out of a movie
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May 23
SF ive arrived to pillage all your oysters
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May 21
i went to university for photography for 5 years and hated it being surrounded by so many talented creative people was great, but it took me years to figure out that i was simply in the wrong room speaking the wrong language the community was right, the craft was wrong
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May 20
rate my set up
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May 19
loading animation concept #1
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