{"id":3292,"date":"2023-12-15T00:04:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T06:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2023-12-31T01:21:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T07:21:25","slug":"tis-the-season-for-digital-candy-canes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2023\/12\/tis-the-season-for-digital-candy-canes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tis&#8217; the Season &#8211; For Digital Candy Canes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another year, another Holiday Card. For those keeping track, this is the seventh year I made one with\/for the family. Here&#8217;s number 7:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/HolidayCard_2023_ver4.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3294 size-medium\" title=\"Big fan of how the Candy Canes came out.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/HolidayCard_2023_ver4-200x300.png\" alt=\"Digital Candy Cane Design\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every time it seems like a rush job; but by keeping things simple, I feel it was pretty manageable this year. As always, there are a few things I would have liked to tweak a little more, but overall I&#8217;m pleased with the end result.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of the candy canes, which were created in After Effects. In fact, the whole card was done in AE (with a splash of Illustrator) versus using Photoshop. This was mostly due to my comfort level with the software, as I&#8217;m sure it could have been done easily in PS. I plan on writing up a quick post describing the steps. It wasn&#8217;t too complicated but there were a series of layered effects, which gave a solid look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year, another Holiday Card. For those keeping track, this is the seventh year I made one with\/for the family. Here&#8217;s number 7: Every time it seems like a rush job; but by keeping things simple, I feel it was pretty manageable this year. As always, there are a few things I would have liked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,148,144],"class_list":["post-3292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-after-effects","tag-cand","tag-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}