pftq Creations Index

Collab with Waterflame. Fun track made in 24 hours. Last few tracks had a lot of influence from goa / psy-trance, so we leaned into that and tried to actually make a full 8-min trance track this time. Trance tends to be long and repetitive (and Waterflame initially bawked at making an 8-min track that just repeats), so this track basically has all the stuff we like to listen to in trance minus the... »

Music, Animation, Movie, Art | April 13, 2022 - April 14, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, After Effects

Collab between me and Waterflame from 2020. This track was a nightmare to get finished and is basically the most Frankenstein collab ever - everything from project tempos being off by fractions of BPM to random source files being panned off-center - but it was definitely worth it, and we feel like we pulled out all the stops in making this feel like an epic koto music battle - like something ou... »

Music, Animation, Movie | December 13, 2020 - January 1, 2022 | Last Updated October 25, 2021
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe After Effects CS5

This is a peaceful winter-themed track co-composed by Waterflame and pftq. Ironically the song was named without any awareness to what day the winter solstice actually was, so it was just pure coincidence. There was a bit of a tug-of-war between the song going in Waterflame's happier direction and pftq's more haunting direction, and it eventually became something of a Nightmare Before Christmas ... »

Music, Artwork, Animation, Movie | December 17, 2021 - December 20, 2021 | Last Updated December 21, 2021
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, 8dio, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe After Effects CS5

Presentation created in After Effects to illustrate the Company with No Customers or Employees concept behind the Autodidactic Islands. »

Presentation | December 9, 2016
Adobe Flash, Adobe After Effects, FlashShow

This is a simple presentation deck I put together for Tech Trader, a fully autonomous trading system that has been trading with no human intervention for over 3 years. The presentation is kept at a high level and discusses the technology and thought process behind the system. It also touches on my short thought piece Creating Sentient Artificial Intelligence, which contrasts the more "human"... »

Presentation | March 20, 2016 - March 23, 2016
Adobe Flash, Adobe After Effects, FlashShow

Animated version of the business card I designed for a group I started in high school. As before, all graphics and videos are from short films I also made. Also nice to have the music be my own for once too. First time doing heavy After Effects work in a while, but it feels good to be back. »

Movie | January 24, 2014 - January 25, 2014
Adobe After Effects CC

Short presentation I put together for a class today about tools that happened to be educational, which for me was learning coding/filmmaking from Age of Mythology. Much of the presentation slide style is from my earlier high school work Regression of Oranges (which was also much better done) but it's nice to be animating again, probably the first time in several years now. Also nice to revisit ... »

Presentation | October 10, 2012
Adobe Flash, Adobe After Effects, FlashShow

Fun image I pieced together with a landscape shot in Alaska and an extracted person from greenscreen. Editing done in After Effects. »

Art, Photo | February 19, 2011
Adobe After Effects CS5

This is a simple but useful script template for adding customized titles to a large number of video clips in Adobe After Effects. In some of the work I do, I've had to create titles for several hundred videos. Rather than type each title in After Effects, the expressions/code in this template allow you to just drag the video into the timeline and have the title automatically change to the ... »

Script, Tool | October 23, 2010
After Effects CS5
Downloaded 127 times

Trailer/Buildup intro I made for a club in high school, consisting of all the movies we did, each of them directed/shot/edited by me as well with the exception of the 2-sec stop-motion at 0:11. A breakdown of some of the shots follows after the trailer. Sadly, most of my video experience peaked at the end of high school with the Moviemakers Club I co-founded, and I haven't had much time or re... »

Movie, Animation | May 14, 2009
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe After Effects CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3

An average hardworking man comes home one night to find in his house a dead body. This was created before Flash died, so it requires installing Ruffle now to emulate Flash: https://ruffle.rs/ The final product of almost two months' work with my club, filmed on 3 separate days and edited in 5 (with no sleep). 36 min. movie with more than 2 hours of outtakes. Serious and funny at the same... »

Movie | February 19, 2009 - April 12, 2009
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Adobe After Effects CS4, Adobe Encore CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4
Downloaded 98 times

Video my club and I made for Christmas 2008. Filmed over a course of 3 days and edited by me in one. May not top our Halloween Little Kook in a Cabin, but it's definitely one of our favorite scripts. Music is not from me this time, but from royalty-free sources and a few artists I've received permission. This was created before Flash died, so it requires installing Ruffle now to emul... »

Movie | December 5, 2008 - December 17, 2008
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Adobe After Effects CS4, Adobe Encore CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4
Downloaded 230 times

This was created two years after my last powerpoint. I used After Effects instead and wrote a Flash script called FlashShow to play the videos as a presentation slideshow. Lots of fun with camera effects and explosions. Obviously the music and images (with the exception of the hand holding the orange) are not mine; the charts and data are but are meaningless. Just enjoy. Those that ... »

Presentation, Movie | November 30, 2008 - December 4, 2008
Adobe Flash, Adobe After Effects, FlashShow

Video I made in a club for Halloween 2008. Filmed in one day and edited in seven nights. First DVD we've made that's entirely copyright-free, everything produced by our own or from royalty-free sources. Songs from main menu and opening 3 min. I think you'll recognize from me. All video-editing and animation also from me, done in a single week before Halloween (time crunch!). Thi... »

Movie | October 15, 2008 - November 7, 2008
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Adobe After Effects CS4, Adobe Encore CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4
Downloaded 196 times

Entry to a contest at psoriasis-cure-now.org for the humor track. Entry on Youtube. Took 4 whole days to make it... Had to hand-draw everything, make the music, make the voices - first time animating and also first time making everything. Am pretty proud of it. Nope, that's not my real voice, but it IS me speaking. Just lots of filters added over. Music I made in FL Studio - pre... »

Movie, Art, Animation | July 29, 2008 - August 2, 2008
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe After Effects CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3
Downloaded 266 times

Entry for the SPARC contest. Personal favorite; clean, funny, and serious at same time! SPARC Contest called for a 30 second clip that promoted the pursuit of an education for a better future. Special thanks to Milkman_Dan for permission to use his song. »

Movie | April 8, 2008 - April 17, 2008
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe After Effects CS3
Downloaded 42 times

Originally made back in March for a MESA web competition - but that got disqualified because they didn't want the whole site done in Flash or something. Then later used the video for Moviemakers Club instead. Everything created from scratch - music, graphics... Only thing borrowed is the video footage from a club I'm part of. »

Movie, Animation | January 3, 2008 - March 27, 2008
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe After Effects CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3
Downloaded 118 times

Quick flight test I put together with some friends. Everything is done with green screen and still photos. First time experimenting with 3D camera effect. Song is by Deniz Akbulut. »

Movie | January 27, 2008
Adobe After Effects CS3
Downloaded 18 times