Kyle Hamrick
@kylasaurusrex.bsky.social
Emmy-winning motion designer, creative & technical director, educator.
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This is an ad that was just served to me. ... it feels a little on the nose these days.
October 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This is an ad that was just served to me. ... it feels a little on the nose these days.
Attn #kansascity food nerds: I have 2 tickets for this Friday's Alton Brown show at Midland Theater I can't use. Msg me if interested!
April 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Attn #kansascity food nerds: I have 2 tickets for this Friday's Alton Brown show at Midland Theater I can't use. Msg me if interested!
Today's Motion Design Hotline: @ecabrams.bsky.social & I take advantage of the new Null creation commands in After Effects, which make connecting layers, tracing paths and more easier than ever. @adobelive.bsky.social
Live at Noon ET/9a PT! Behance.net/adobelive OR www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZW...
Live at Noon ET/9a PT! Behance.net/adobelive OR www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZW...
April 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Today's Motion Design Hotline: @ecabrams.bsky.social & I take advantage of the new Null creation commands in After Effects, which make connecting layers, tracing paths and more easier than ever. @adobelive.bsky.social
Live at Noon ET/9a PT! Behance.net/adobelive OR www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZW...
Live at Noon ET/9a PT! Behance.net/adobelive OR www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZW...
This week, Motion Design Hotline takes on Corporate Memphis. @ecabrams.bsky.social & I break down the style and tackle tips for creating your own elements using After Effects and Illustrator - because we know they're still asking for it. 🤷♂️
Wed Noon ET / 9a PT
Links below!
Wed Noon ET / 9a PT
Links below!
February 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This week, Motion Design Hotline takes on Corporate Memphis. @ecabrams.bsky.social & I break down the style and tackle tips for creating your own elements using After Effects and Illustrator - because we know they're still asking for it. 🤷♂️
Wed Noon ET / 9a PT
Links below!
Wed Noon ET / 9a PT
Links below!
There's an Italian takeout place here that does meatball and other messy sandos in a hollow-ed out loaf with a little bread cap! I love it.
February 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
There's an Italian takeout place here that does meatball and other messy sandos in a hollow-ed out loaf with a little bread cap! I love it.
Compilation of photos from yesterday's Presidents' Day (2/17) protests across all 50 states + DC. Keep it up! 💪 #50501
February 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Compilation of photos from yesterday's Presidents' Day (2/17) protests across all 50 states + DC. Keep it up! 💪 #50501
I'm looking forward to this phase
February 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I'm looking forward to this phase
Reworked a lame dino joke for a Risograph animation workshop with @kellianderson.bsky.social (u prep, she prints & scans, you reassemble).
I've been exploring ways to emulate this vibe in After Effects (+ Photoshop?): this both gave some great insights and was lots of fun! 🦖
I've been exploring ways to emulate this vibe in After Effects (+ Photoshop?): this both gave some great insights and was lots of fun! 🦖
February 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Reworked a lame dino joke for a Risograph animation workshop with @kellianderson.bsky.social (u prep, she prints & scans, you reassemble).
I've been exploring ways to emulate this vibe in After Effects (+ Photoshop?): this both gave some great insights and was lots of fun! 🦖
I've been exploring ways to emulate this vibe in After Effects (+ Photoshop?): this both gave some great insights and was lots of fun! 🦖
Whether you've got an official valentine or not, it's as good a day as any to show a little love to a fellow human, and/or do something kind for someone you care about.
Futzing around in Substance Stager; shapes quickly modeled in Illustrator + some final compositing in Photoshop.
Futzing around in Substance Stager; shapes quickly modeled in Illustrator + some final compositing in Photoshop.
February 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Whether you've got an official valentine or not, it's as good a day as any to show a little love to a fellow human, and/or do something kind for someone you care about.
Futzing around in Substance Stager; shapes quickly modeled in Illustrator + some final compositing in Photoshop.
Futzing around in Substance Stager; shapes quickly modeled in Illustrator + some final compositing in Photoshop.
Superscript doesn't appear in the text style expressions, but I have an Expression Selector preset that will find certain characters and then do [whatever] to them. (This is of course adapted from an Ebberts answer in the depths of old Creative Cow posts.)
February 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Superscript doesn't appear in the text style expressions, but I have an Expression Selector preset that will find certain characters and then do [whatever] to them. (This is of course adapted from an Ebberts answer in the depths of old Creative Cow posts.)
A little shift in perspective can go a long way. Today on Motion Design Hotline, @ecabrams.bsky.social & I are exploring perspective-shifting transitions in After Effects.
Join us on @adobelive.bsky.social at Noon ET/9a PT, and send us your questions in the chat!
Join us on @adobelive.bsky.social at Noon ET/9a PT, and send us your questions in the chat!
February 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A little shift in perspective can go a long way. Today on Motion Design Hotline, @ecabrams.bsky.social & I are exploring perspective-shifting transitions in After Effects.
Join us on @adobelive.bsky.social at Noon ET/9a PT, and send us your questions in the chat!
Join us on @adobelive.bsky.social at Noon ET/9a PT, and send us your questions in the chat!
What's your favorite vintage title sequence?
This week on Motion Design Hotline, @ecabrams.bsky.social & I are saluting the OG of motion design, title designer Saul Bass (+ his wife Elaine)! We'll talk style & concepts, and recreate aspects of a few iconic opening titles in After Effects.
This week on Motion Design Hotline, @ecabrams.bsky.social & I are saluting the OG of motion design, title designer Saul Bass (+ his wife Elaine)! We'll talk style & concepts, and recreate aspects of a few iconic opening titles in After Effects.
January 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
What's your favorite vintage title sequence?
This week on Motion Design Hotline, @ecabrams.bsky.social & I are saluting the OG of motion design, title designer Saul Bass (+ his wife Elaine)! We'll talk style & concepts, and recreate aspects of a few iconic opening titles in After Effects.
This week on Motion Design Hotline, @ecabrams.bsky.social & I are saluting the OG of motion design, title designer Saul Bass (+ his wife Elaine)! We'll talk style & concepts, and recreate aspects of a few iconic opening titles in After Effects.
Today @ecabrams.bsky.social & I have another batch of awesome viewer-submitted After Effects tips coming at you in about 90 minutes. Come hang out and get your mind blown! 🤯
www.youtube.com/live/0PAcxe0...
www.youtube.com/live/0PAcxe0...
January 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today @ecabrams.bsky.social & I have another batch of awesome viewer-submitted After Effects tips coming at you in about 90 minutes. Come hang out and get your mind blown! 🤯
www.youtube.com/live/0PAcxe0...
www.youtube.com/live/0PAcxe0...
We're less than an hour from our 100th episode of Motion Design Hotline, which will be FULL of awesome After Effects tips.
@adobelive.bsky.social
@ecabrams.bsky.social
I got dressed up and everything!
Noon ET / 9a PT
👉 Behance.net/adobelive
👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImJC...
@adobelive.bsky.social
@ecabrams.bsky.social
I got dressed up and everything!
Noon ET / 9a PT
👉 Behance.net/adobelive
👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImJC...
January 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We're less than an hour from our 100th episode of Motion Design Hotline, which will be FULL of awesome After Effects tips.
@adobelive.bsky.social
@ecabrams.bsky.social
I got dressed up and everything!
Noon ET / 9a PT
👉 Behance.net/adobelive
👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImJC...
@adobelive.bsky.social
@ecabrams.bsky.social
I got dressed up and everything!
Noon ET / 9a PT
👉 Behance.net/adobelive
👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImJC...
What's your favorite After Effects tip? @ecabrams.bsky.social & I are coming up on episode 100 🤯 of Motion Design Hotline, and we want this show to be chock-full of useful tips & tricks ... like yours!
Join us Jan 8th on Adobe Live Noon ET | 9a PT to see how many tips we can pack into this show.
Join us Jan 8th on Adobe Live Noon ET | 9a PT to see how many tips we can pack into this show.
December 30, 2024 at 4:09 PM
What's your favorite After Effects tip? @ecabrams.bsky.social & I are coming up on episode 100 🤯 of Motion Design Hotline, and we want this show to be chock-full of useful tips & tricks ... like yours!
Join us Jan 8th on Adobe Live Noon ET | 9a PT to see how many tips we can pack into this show.
Join us Jan 8th on Adobe Live Noon ET | 9a PT to see how many tips we can pack into this show.
I've been quietly raging about Meetup for a couple years now; the platform and outdated & clunky, and they charge insane rates for organizers. (Which are about to DOUBLE, btw!)
Now they're throwing this nearly uncloseable pop-up when you're just trying to *look* at events.
Mind-blowing.
Now they're throwing this nearly uncloseable pop-up when you're just trying to *look* at events.
Mind-blowing.
December 26, 2024 at 10:12 PM
I've been quietly raging about Meetup for a couple years now; the platform and outdated & clunky, and they charge insane rates for organizers. (Which are about to DOUBLE, btw!)
Now they're throwing this nearly uncloseable pop-up when you're just trying to *look* at events.
Mind-blowing.
Now they're throwing this nearly uncloseable pop-up when you're just trying to *look* at events.
Mind-blowing.
I've always had a fondness for goofy Amazon store names, but "rabbitgoo" is the new champion, hands down.
December 14, 2024 at 6:02 PM
I've always had a fondness for goofy Amazon store names, but "rabbitgoo" is the new champion, hands down.
If motion design edu-tainment existed around the time
@ecabrams.bsky.social & I were born, it would look something like this? This week on Motion Design Hotline, we boot up some retro-futuristic FUI (fictional user interfaces) in After Effects.
Join us on Adobe Live & send us your Qs in the chat!
@ecabrams.bsky.social & I were born, it would look something like this? This week on Motion Design Hotline, we boot up some retro-futuristic FUI (fictional user interfaces) in After Effects.
Join us on Adobe Live & send us your Qs in the chat!
December 10, 2024 at 11:27 PM
If motion design edu-tainment existed around the time
@ecabrams.bsky.social & I were born, it would look something like this? This week on Motion Design Hotline, we boot up some retro-futuristic FUI (fictional user interfaces) in After Effects.
Join us on Adobe Live & send us your Qs in the chat!
@ecabrams.bsky.social & I were born, it would look something like this? This week on Motion Design Hotline, we boot up some retro-futuristic FUI (fictional user interfaces) in After Effects.
Join us on Adobe Live & send us your Qs in the chat!
This week on Motion Design Hotline, @ecabrams.bsky.social
& I are diving into techniques & tips for creating visual for live events, concerts, sports venues and more.
Adobe Live this Wednesday @ Noon ET / 9a PT!
behance.net/adobelive
www.youtube.com/live/2cOAhD1...
& I are diving into techniques & tips for creating visual for live events, concerts, sports venues and more.
Adobe Live this Wednesday @ Noon ET / 9a PT!
behance.net/adobelive
www.youtube.com/live/2cOAhD1...
December 3, 2024 at 5:42 PM
This week on Motion Design Hotline, @ecabrams.bsky.social
& I are diving into techniques & tips for creating visual for live events, concerts, sports venues and more.
Adobe Live this Wednesday @ Noon ET / 9a PT!
behance.net/adobelive
www.youtube.com/live/2cOAhD1...
& I are diving into techniques & tips for creating visual for live events, concerts, sports venues and more.
Adobe Live this Wednesday @ Noon ET / 9a PT!
behance.net/adobelive
www.youtube.com/live/2cOAhD1...
If you liked my grotesque turkey animation, but wished it was more overtly political and even less appealing to look at, you're in luck!
🎶 (The Cure: "Never Enough")
🎶 (The Cure: "Never Enough")
November 20, 2024 at 9:04 PM
If you liked my grotesque turkey animation, but wished it was more overtly political and even less appealing to look at, you're in luck!
🎶 (The Cure: "Never Enough")
🎶 (The Cure: "Never Enough")
You turkeys keep sending us questions about the crazy collage style made famous by Ariel Costa (aka BlinkMyBrain), so this week @ecabrams.bsky.social & I are taking a few nibbles at that recipe.
BTS tomorrow on Adobe Live @ Noon ET / 9a PT
Behance.net/adobelive
www.youtube.com/live/umGa51z...
BTS tomorrow on Adobe Live @ Noon ET / 9a PT
Behance.net/adobelive
www.youtube.com/live/umGa51z...
November 19, 2024 at 3:54 PM
You turkeys keep sending us questions about the crazy collage style made famous by Ariel Costa (aka BlinkMyBrain), so this week @ecabrams.bsky.social & I are taking a few nibbles at that recipe.
BTS tomorrow on Adobe Live @ Noon ET / 9a PT
Behance.net/adobelive
www.youtube.com/live/umGa51z...
BTS tomorrow on Adobe Live @ Noon ET / 9a PT
Behance.net/adobelive
www.youtube.com/live/umGa51z...
And I thought the existing designs were niche
November 15, 2024 at 8:34 PM
And I thought the existing designs were niche
It's what's inside that counts. Hopefully there's something there.
This week on Motion Design Hotline, @ecabrams.bsky.social & I will slice into collage-style cutaway techniques in After Effects. I cut so deep, I went all the way into the third dimension, but still all done in AE.
This week on Motion Design Hotline, @ecabrams.bsky.social & I will slice into collage-style cutaway techniques in After Effects. I cut so deep, I went all the way into the third dimension, but still all done in AE.
November 11, 2024 at 11:06 PM
It's what's inside that counts. Hopefully there's something there.
This week on Motion Design Hotline, @ecabrams.bsky.social & I will slice into collage-style cutaway techniques in After Effects. I cut so deep, I went all the way into the third dimension, but still all done in AE.
This week on Motion Design Hotline, @ecabrams.bsky.social & I will slice into collage-style cutaway techniques in After Effects. I cut so deep, I went all the way into the third dimension, but still all done in AE.
I've gotta hand it to @ecabrams.bsky.social - always ahead of me when it comes to posting. I was supposed to be focusing on the glorpy text, but I started diving into details and ... it got a bit out of hand. 🥁
Join us live this morning and let us know what you'd like us to show you!
Join us live this morning and let us know what you'd like us to show you!
October 23, 2024 at 2:32 PM
I've gotta hand it to @ecabrams.bsky.social - always ahead of me when it comes to posting. I was supposed to be focusing on the glorpy text, but I started diving into details and ... it got a bit out of hand. 🥁
Join us live this morning and let us know what you'd like us to show you!
Join us live this morning and let us know what you'd like us to show you!