{"id":3297,"date":"2023-12-23T00:34:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T06:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=3297"},"modified":"2023-12-23T00:34:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T06:34:06","slug":"digital-candy-cane-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2023\/12\/digital-candy-cane-breakdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Candy Cane Breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really liked how the candy canes turned out in <a title=\"Holiday Card #7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2023\/12\/tis-the-season-for-digital-candy-canes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this year&#8217;s Holiday card<\/a>. It took a few steps to get to the end result so I figured I&#8217;d share the progression:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/WebSiteStillsCompilation.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3298 size-medium\" title=\"As if I needed to make pictures of me any sweeter...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/WebSiteStillsCompilation-300x223.png\" alt=\"Digital Candy Cane Design in After Effects\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/WebSiteStillsCompilation-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/WebSiteStillsCompilation-1024x760.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/WebSiteStillsCompilation-768x570.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/WebSiteStillsCompilation-1536x1140.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/WebSiteStillsCompilation-2048x1520.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I ended up using After Effects &#8211; technically, the base shapes were done in Illustrator when I was creating the card&#8217;s general layout, but this could have easily been done in AE as well. I&#8217;m sure Photoshop would have been just as capable, but I used a fair amount of mattes, masks, and blending modes; and I am more comfortable doing that in AE.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, I was planning on going with a more illustrative look so I could have easily stopped at #3 or #4; but as I kept working through things, I liked the realistic look more and more. The shadows\/highlights really helped achieve the look I wanted, but I think the unsung hero that really sold it was the noise layer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really liked how the candy canes turned out in this year&#8217;s Holiday card. It took a few steps to get to the end result so I figured I&#8217;d share the progression: I ended up using After Effects &#8211; technically, the base shapes were done in Illustrator when I was creating the card&#8217;s general layout, [&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-3297","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\/3297","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=3297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3300,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}