Glide’s Motion System

In 2023 we scaled up our video systems at Glide and quite quickly I realized I needed to give our editors access to an easier system to create consistent motion for our videos. At the basic level this just really means text animation and text styles. But there are also other elements.

I also expanded our 3D library a lot and rendered many sequences as PNG sequences in After Effects. This enabled non-3D editors to drop in screencasts or images and render their own 3D scenes — without involving or asking myself or our Digital Art Director for guidance.

Below are three videos that I did as part of this two week effort.