7 posts tagged design.
Five title-card styles from five directors, in pure HTML and CSS. Symmetric framing, serif italics, and the typography choices that signal each one.
How well do current LLMs actually produce motion design? An honest field test of the major models on animation prompts, the failure modes that keep recurring, and the few-shot patterns that fix them.
Type, timing, and tonality. The three constraints that turn motion graphics from decoration into editorial design, with examples from the work that taught me each one.
Six easing curves I use professionally, what they communicate, and why the difference between an okay curve and a great one is the difference between an ad and a Super Bowl ad.
I spent eight years in After Effects. I spent the last year of work in VS Code. Here is what I gained, what I lost, and what surprised me on the way.
A complete title sequence — bouncy text, parallax backdrop, signal-color accent, cinematic ease — written in 80 lines of plain HTML. No framework. No tooling beyond the browser.
What does video tooling look like when the author is a language model? A look at how HyperFrames was designed from frame one to be the easiest video pipeline an LLM can drive.