David Duncan | Motion Design Blog

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I decided to forego the tradition of creating a character “walk cycle” and instead opted for a more fun “skate cycle”. This skate cycle features professional skateboarder Paul Rodriguez. Hopefully more to come!

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Collaboration with @iam.crime POINT GODS//STEPH CURRY!! Follow @iam.crime and @masaolab to see more amazing design work! More collabs hopefully coming soon!

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Two different design styles, same Lava Lamp. The blobs were fun to animate! Shout out to @kyletmartinez for his Inner Stroke preset!

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Around the bases! Made using C4D and AE.

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Finally finished this thing! Simple idea, but the hardest part was getting it to look right design-wise. I had fun making this and the music credit goes to the late great J-Dilla, “Jay Dee 39″ from The King of Beats II LP.

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Here’s a throwback (Thursday) to an animation I made about a month ago. I was really happy it was Friday :)

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Something I made for somebody special on their birthday :) Custom hand-drawn font made in Cinema4D with the spline wrap deformer extruded along a capsule.

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Something I made at work.

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Homework Assignment #2 from jr.canest’s tutorial series on LearnSquared.com

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I started doing a tutorial series on this website called LearnSquared. It is instructed by jr.canest. The first lesson had me doing cel animation in Adobe Animate, aka Adobe Flash. I haven’t felt this embarrassed about my work since I was back in art school! Nevertheless, I still want to post all the work I do while learning so I can go back and track my progress.

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Here is the result from another @eyedesyn tutorial I followed. This one was about the pose morph tag in Cinema4D. I wanted to morph a skateboard in to a VHS tape to signify my love for skate videos, but instead I settled for an ode to music production featuring a keyboard morphing into an MPC.

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Here is the final result from a tutorial I followed by E.J. Hassenfratz @eyedesyn called “How to Morph Between Splines in Cinema 4D”. I used 80′s/90′s hip-hop vocabulary and a color palate inspired by the band Boris’ “Heavy Rocks” albums. This was a lot of fun to make!

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These are some shape explorations I made in Cinema4D. My goal was to be able to deform this cube/sphere structure and still have it hold together without falling apart. I was finally able to figure out how to do it and then I just tried to have fun animating some different variations.

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A little test I made using C4D. I was inspired by some corporate graphic design templates I saw at work and wanted to know if I could recreate and animate it for use as a background texture. The result is completely different from the corporate branding version and I think it almost looks very aquatic.

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Something I made for a logo animation at work. Not an original design or animation idea, but it gave me a chance to use some of the easing techniques I learned from @handeleugene once again.

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Here’s the same little animation test with the easing trick I learned from @handeleugene, only this time I rendered using Sketch & Toon.

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Learned a cool little easing trick from @handeleugene yesterday. Decided to try putting it to work in C4D. Here’s the result!