I was just fretting the other day that I needed to make pebbles for my fish tank in After Effects, but no one on RUclips understood my niche need... *two days later* Ben Marriot: Hey! I made and ANIMATED a millon beans that look alot like pebbles, let me show you how I did it! Thank for being that one RUclipsr that understands what "niche designer" means 😂😂😂
Amazing! Crazy how it works like that sometimes. Good luck with your pebble journey. The time to make the pattern seamless in the beginning is definitely worth it in the end.
Thank you for another cool beans video! I appreciate you including your experiment that crashed Ai, feels reassuring that it's not just me breaking things. Hope you have a good new year! To everyone else too!
One way to do an easier "detailed bean" would be to use the radial grandient with Highlight, Light, Shadow (+ Light again if you fell like it) colours, in that order. That way you move the single gradient sphere and all the colours follow, and those can even become eliptical for a different effect. But overall; 🍲Great Beans🍲
Thanks Cody! The first track is my favorite yet. Still working on it for the full collab project which should be out in a week or two. Don't listen too closely to the mix I have no idea what I'm doing XD
Hi Ben, I got an advice for your problem in assigning the texture to all the beans in the same time in Illustrator: you need to reset the beans orientation coordinates, so just create a merged object with all the beans, then separate it again (by selecting the whole new object and deselecting just one beans, then doing a simple cut and paste in the same position...). Let me know if this could help... And of course thanks a lot for your brilliant tuts!
I want to be honest for the first part if i were u i will jump to blender u can do that in 2 min with scattering objects using geometry node any motion design should use or implement blender in thier workflow that's being said the result looks fancy as always
I would have just as soon suggested, if he wanted to keep this in After Effects, that he use Trapcode Form-but he purposefully laid out the beans in such a way that there are intentionally no overlaps, so I'd guess either programmatic solution might not reflect what he was going for. That said, totally agree, this is a great tutorial.
@@SUSLTD working with a big amount of duplicate objects needs preclude work flow and animating every thing buy hand is a painful experience. And it is also possible to not overlap them at all and in a random matter as will as make their scale falloff from top to bottom using simple proximity
@@jamaldpeat7950 oh totally! In agreement with you there-there probably WOULD be ways to programmatically animate this, but it'd likely have to be C4D or some other 3D-native program. I just know that particle systems isn't something with which After Effects natively has any prowess, so I get why OP took the route he did!
client note: can you make the bean juice on the cursor come off after the collision, like water off a windscreen, so that way the cursor is clean in the first loop. and it'll look better in subsequent loops. nah, that actually makes sense, it''s more an art director note. it's rare that clients actually provide logical notes.
So good - you aced both criteria! Enjoyed the vid tremendously. Also nice that more and more of the animation terms are making sense to me now as I tackle the task of mastering AE (with lots of help of course!). As always, your contents is inspiring! Thanks, Ben!
prior to ben posting this, i watched a video of somebody replacing 3D texture assets in Iron Lung. One of such attempts was to turn an ocean of blood, into bean soup.
This may sound harsh but im just starting in adobe , no experience before and you can get better results in 10 mins not 12 weeks on the beans , or unreal engine would be even quicker with lumen and rtx
I read the title "million bears" and thought the picture shows the mid process of making bears. My mistake, but I don't regret watching this video. Cheers!
yes ben! why are you animating a million bean? jk, I know you are challenging yourself and this is a experiment but wouldnt be easier to achieve the bean lighting if you do it in c4d? the style is achievable too...
Needed to have the bean-sea mirrored above/below, and change colours, AND occasionally flip to vertical orientation, along with 'MY GOD, It's full of beans' somewhere.
i feel like it would almost have bean easier to create a bean particle system using Blender or even Element 3D? I don't think you'll get the same illustrated look and feel with Element 3D, but maybe by using a Toon Shader in Blender you could achieve similar results
Somebody mentioned something similar-I'd personally have opted for Trapcode Form or something of the like-but I'd guess he opted for the manual route to both keep things purely barebones AE-based, and because he laid out that pattern in such a way that there were no bean overlaps. I think you could opt for C4D hard/soft body simulations to scatter mograph cloner objects in such a way that all clones settle into place to AVOID overlaps, but I'm guessing that's just one of a number of solutions that'd end up going too far into the weeds, especially if this is for an educational session with students.
@@SUSLTD C4D is certainly an option I hadn't considered - mainly because it's ridiculously priced haha. Blender has some amazing granular control with Geometry nodes that would allow you to generate procedural beans while avoiding overlap, but you would have to be a bit of a Blender expert to figure that one out. I wouldn't know where to start. Trapcode form is probably the best option tbh
Implying you need an excuse to animate a million beans
Otherwise the whole cherade falls down in a million pieces all coated in a sweet tomato based sauce
@@BenMarriott I eat beans with orange juice
@@sillygoose42069 based af
@@sillygoose42069 i eat mine with milk
The excuse is “because you can”
Thank you Ben for not destroying the space-time continuum with the detailed beans
You are welcome. And to think... 99.9% of the world will never know how close we came to complete annihilation.
after effects and beans, my two favourite things 😍
bean ✅
good ✅
You are a kind soul. And one who shares so many of my interests :)
@@BenMarriott bean good
I was just fretting the other day that I needed to make pebbles for my fish tank in After Effects, but no one on RUclips understood my niche need...
*two days later* Ben Marriot: Hey! I made and ANIMATED a millon beans that look alot like pebbles, let me show you how I did it!
Thank for being that one RUclipsr that understands what "niche designer" means 😂😂😂
Amazing! Crazy how it works like that sometimes. Good luck with your pebble journey. The time to make the pattern seamless in the beginning is definitely worth it in the end.
your editing is so professional and eye pleasing, i love everything you make
You’re too kind, thank you.
the editing and pace of the video is godlike, truely a masterpiece
Thank you for another cool beans video! I appreciate you including your experiment that crashed Ai, feels reassuring that it's not just me breaking things. Hope you have a good new year! To everyone else too!
Thanks! Since getting into the bean niche I was never sure it was the right decision until this video.
Okay, Did it really take 12 weeks!!! That's insane ... Highly appreciate what you teach here on youtube for free man. Thank you.
most subtle "flick the bean" of all time
Gotta be sneaky to get it past the censors!
the best heinz beanz animation I've ever seen
You know, I look at the beans on my desk every day. But I never thought to animate them. Clever.
One way to do an easier "detailed bean" would be to use the radial grandient with Highlight, Light, Shadow (+ Light again if you fell like it) colours, in that order.
That way you move the single gradient sphere and all the colours follow, and those can even become eliptical for a different effect.
But overall;
🍲Great Beans🍲
Now this is what motion graphics is all about. ❤
When you're out with the boys, scouring the multiverse at 3AM looking for BEANS!!!!
We've all bean there
Bean Marriott, the master of the bean world! May the beans ever be in your flavour... or something like that.
Doing any sort of work in After Effects and not going insane is worth a pat on the back.
*"Sorry teacher, I couldn't finish my test, I was animating a million beans"*
This is 100% the content I am here for. Also, excellent job again with the music bed Ben 👌
Thanks Cody! The first track is my favorite yet. Still working on it for the full collab project which should be out in a week or two. Don't listen too closely to the mix I have no idea what I'm doing XD
People who are skilled at design amaze me! Cool project.
Who else was excited to see Ben animating beans
oh just me? okay.
It’s my birthday today and this was an amazing present to wake up to
Hi Ben, I got an advice for your problem in assigning the texture to all the beans in the same time in Illustrator: you need to reset the beans orientation coordinates, so just create a merged object with all the beans, then separate it again (by selecting the whole new object and deselecting just one beans, then doing a simple cut and paste in the same position...). Let me know if this could help...
And of course thanks a lot for your brilliant tuts!
Genius! Thank you
I think he filled the criteria very well, awesome job!
Beans! Thanks for the fabulous content Beany Ben. It's much appreciated.
i imagine blender being added on that part of workflow that beans with cartoon texture will be just fine
I want to be honest for the first part if i were u i will jump to blender u can do that in 2 min with scattering objects using geometry node any motion design should use or implement blender in thier workflow that's being said the result looks fancy as always
I would have just as soon suggested, if he wanted to keep this in After Effects, that he use Trapcode Form-but he purposefully laid out the beans in such a way that there are intentionally no overlaps, so I'd guess either programmatic solution might not reflect what he was going for. That said, totally agree, this is a great tutorial.
Exactly! xD
@@SUSLTD working with a big amount of duplicate objects needs preclude work flow and animating every thing buy hand is a painful experience. And it is also possible to not overlap them at all and in a random matter as will as make their scale falloff from top to bottom using simple proximity
@@SUSLTD i dont have any knowledge of programming in aftereffects but it should have something for scattering and loop
@@jamaldpeat7950 oh totally! In agreement with you there-there probably WOULD be ways to programmatically animate this, but it'd likely have to be C4D or some other 3D-native program. I just know that particle systems isn't something with which After Effects natively has any prowess, so I get why OP took the route he did!
New Ben Marriott video.
Cool beans.
client note: can you make the bean juice on the cursor come off after the collision, like water off a windscreen, so that way the cursor is clean in the first loop. and it'll look better in subsequent loops.
nah, that actually makes sense, it''s more an art director note. it's rare that clients actually provide logical notes.
Everyone is talking about how good this was but who realized that he RANDOMLY hat a can of beans on his DESK.
Stopped watching your videos for a while... But like all good things, if it's yours you get it back. I love this so muchhh!!! Haaahaha! Beans
"Hey bro u animating again?"
"Yea"
"What's it about?"
"beans"
So good - you aced both criteria! Enjoyed the vid tremendously. Also nice that more and more of the animation terms are making sense to me now as I tackle the task of mastering AE (with lots of help of course!). As always, your contents is inspiring! Thanks, Ben!
prior to ben posting this, i watched a video of somebody replacing 3D texture assets in Iron Lung. One of such attempts was to turn an ocean of blood, into bean soup.
"Heinz beans war crimes"
I like your funny words, magic man
Bravo! Best yet! Thank you for sharing Ben!
Did you just say you were going to flick your bean? 😂
Good tip about googling war crimes - will be using this hack for all my upcoming animations in after effects
The prophecy is becoming, Beans Marriott
Desk Beans are often a good source of inspirations.
Enjoyed every moment of this... Thanks Ben you're a real one.
The best thing about the can planet is that it allows a round earth, a flat earth, AND a hollow earth. Everyone wins!
Hollow earth! How could I not think if that. The can is truly the shape of the people
my god this is tastey i like your style bean mariott
Thanks my friend! Do you prefer baked beans in tomato sauce.... or ham sauce....?
@@BenMarriott tomato sauce for sure
how to get good in after effects im still learning
youtubers saying that they're running out of content ideas
Ben Marriott:
Nice work, ever tried using substance designer? It could have saved you a lot of time for the beans texture.
I’m not a designer by any means but I figured there must be some tool to help simulate 2 dimensional lighting
I'm so glad I'll be part of the Lord of the Beans amazing collaboration 👏👏
This may sound harsh but im just starting in adobe , no experience before and you can get better results in 10 mins not 12 weeks on the beans , or unreal engine would be even quicker with lumen and rtx
To beans, or not to beans, that is the question
Beans, always beans. That is the answer.
Would it not have been possible to use a light in 3d space to light the beans? Great vid btw!
Right? Or maybe a flat texture with a normal map?
Never thought I'd see someone flick their bean on RUclips, but here we are!
now this is art
I wish my teachers did interactive exercises like that
That's some gooooood beans!
other people: this looks amazing its so good!
me: BEAN
but seriously this is amazing.
Wow, this is so cool! If it were me, would've separated the Sea of Bean into 3 or 4 different layers to add a bit of a parallax effect.
Mmmmm Beans, Beans, the Magical Fruit! The more you eat, the more ... Toot 🤣
1:02 that is one neat transition
The FBI agent watching him type "in heinz beans war" crimes: what is this guy planning with this information?
And I learnt something.
Awesome!
“What do you do for a living”
“I edit pngs of beans”
I read the title "million bears" and thought the picture shows the mid process of making bears.
My mistake, but I don't regret watching this video. Cheers!
"At the time of recording" 😂
Gotta cover myself and stay ahead of the news
clicked and liked for merely this title alone
This must've bean stressful but it paid off!
You can bet a celebrated with an ice-cold pint of beans that day after work.
that was amazing, love it!
As a bean gang member, i approve
This should be used for a Heinz Baked Beans advert.
Beans. Well you’ve got my sub
something you never animated before: something good
Big fan of flicking beans myself Ben
Damn I love beans and Ben sm
Immediately subscribed 💀💀💀
These videos are super interesting. Your breakdowns are very insightful. Thank you.
Thank you good sir for animating me
yes ben! why are you animating a million bean?
jk, I know you are challenging yourself and this is a experiment but wouldnt be easier to achieve the bean lighting if you do it in c4d?
the style is achievable too...
It's beautiful.
twparso will be proud and grateful
Needed to have the bean-sea mirrored above/below, and change colours, AND occasionally flip to vertical orientation, along with 'MY GOD, It's full of beans' somewhere.
☑️ Beans
☑️ Good
What else could you ask for
Nice beans you've got there.
Excuse me, but my eyes are up here.
Bean Marriot with the win
this is what i aspire to become
imagin your Teacher Searches up
"Heinz Beans war Crimes"
Thank god Heinz didn’t commit any war crimes (Yet). Otherwise I wouldn’t feel comfortable dipping my fries into ketchup
My volume wasn’t working for the first minute so I thought this video just had no sound. It seemed like the greatest shitpost of all time
Like the humour in your demos, Ben.
how much free time do you have?
Ben Marriott : yes
i love u and this channel so much.
sincerely, parasocial viewer #3,754
Sending parasocial love right back at you :)
“Heinz Beans War Crimes”
Now Thats What I Call Beans
✅ Good
❌ Not enough beans
This is some good beans.
i feel like it would almost have bean easier to create a bean particle system using Blender or even Element 3D? I don't think you'll get the same illustrated look and feel with Element 3D, but maybe by using a Toon Shader in Blender you could achieve similar results
Somebody mentioned something similar-I'd personally have opted for Trapcode Form or something of the like-but I'd guess he opted for the manual route to both keep things purely barebones AE-based, and because he laid out that pattern in such a way that there were no bean overlaps.
I think you could opt for C4D hard/soft body simulations to scatter mograph cloner objects in such a way that all clones settle into place to AVOID overlaps, but I'm guessing that's just one of a number of solutions that'd end up going too far into the weeds, especially if this is for an educational session with students.
@@SUSLTD C4D is certainly an option I hadn't considered - mainly because it's ridiculously priced haha. Blender has some amazing granular control with Geometry nodes that would allow you to generate procedural beans while avoiding overlap, but you would have to be a bit of a Blender expert to figure that one out. I wouldn't know where to start. Trapcode form is probably the best option tbh
@@rainbow28453 if I remember correctly, a Lite version of C4D comes with After Effects.
@@patrickwehbe8020 It is very limited, however I haven't looked into it enough
me and the boys looking for beans at 2/3am!!!!!!1!!!!!11111
The beans. There is a way to do on Photoshop using smart objects and saved FX presets using gradient and shadows on Global Light.
Bean Marriot
Yes you did 🥰
Beans 👍
Beans to you my friend :)
🫘 wow! So many beans 🥣🫘
Very cool ✅✅
holy shit you didn't even use Heinz' third-party beans plugin, this is wild
Heinz gotta fork out the affiliate links for that kind of a feature XD