Rob Barrett

Hello Bluesky! I'm Rob, a freelancer in Berlin working with brands to create motion design toolkits, templates, Mogrts and videos. Alongside this, I build tools for #AfterEffects, and aim to share more of my development process here. (I also like to nerd out over D&D ⚔️)

The utterly sociopathic entitlement of these tech freaks. Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco has given the UK government a 12 month deadline to quash public outrage over data centres, or they will... flounce off with their debt? Go on, then. Off you fuck. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

✨️Reference vs Art✨️

This applies to everything AI in learning: it denies the value of process in favor of a product. When people defend students using AI to complete an assignment, my question as been: then who was the assignment for? The prof doesn't need it. The student didn't learn it. So what was the value? 1/

From: Dance to the Rhythm (1991), dir. Karen Aqua

Australopithecus 3 million years ago:

For @wired.com, I spoke with workers about the quiet push to experiment with AI tools from book publishing executives at the Big Five. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

Saw a woman on TikTok who said she quit corporate at age 46 to become a beekeeper because “I would literally rather get stung by 10,000 bees than write ‘per my last email’ again” and you know what? I respect that

Let me teach you about color theory!

BREAKING: a whistleblower has just quit company wikiHow, warning that within ten years, advanced wikiHow illustrations may kill us all

this is sick as hell, omg

Sure. The problem with using "AI" at any point in the book production process is that people will think you'll use "AI" at any point in the process. When I learned about my "AI" cover I apologized, made it a contract point it couldn't be used again, and donated to an arts org helping young artists.

Making a little guy!

“Politicians discussing global warming” by Isaac Cordal — originally exhibited in Berlin, 2011 and even more relevant today. 👏

Yaki Point - Grand Canyon ',1924 Watercolours Gunnar Widforss,1879_ 1934 )

YES TIME IS RUNNING OUT GET IT NOW DO NOT LIVE IN REGRET WITH THE THOUGHTS OF WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN IF ONLY YOU HAD BOUGHT A BUNCH OF EBOOKS FROM A SINGLE DUDE (also you will be supporting @wck.org, which is probably the more compelling argument)

Excited to share these Spotify audiobook covers I illustrated for Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad! On this day! For no particular, Odyssey-related reason! 😬 #odyssey

“A.I. Movies” www.tiktok.com/@americanbar...

Rise and grind

Just make it exist first, you can make it good later

We're deep in the throes of the @aescripts.bsky.social Summer of Sales, and you can pick up all of my scripts at 25% off! aescripts.com/authors/rob-...

Colombia v Switzerland being referred to as Charlie v The Chocolate Factory.

It looks like a good deal because it is a good deal, and also supports a good organization!

Here's the cover I designed for the Green Man programme this year.

It's the final few hours of the @aescripts.bsky.social Cyber Sale, and the last chance until summer to pick up my #AfterEffects scripts at 25% off. Just use code 'CYBER' in the checkout 🌟 aescripts.com/authors/rob-...

Random Selection Order function added to Random Roller: use with AE's new Quick Offset feature to add random offsets to layers and keyframes! Select your layers or keyframes and click this button to reselect in a random order. aescripts.com/random-roller @adobevideo.adobe.com @aescripts.com

i think, on a fundamental level, my biggest issue with *any* corporate LLM solution is that it's built to destroys community. It rips up everything that various communities of people have built together and repackages it all -uncredited- as a shiny, new thing.

There's always some hidden gem you don't know about in #AfterEffects! I'm looking forward to finding a few of them!

New #AfterEffects script! Random Roller allows you to randomly select layers, randomly assign layers to groups, and sort layers into a random order. 🎲 BEND CHAOS TO YOUR WILL 🎲 25% off until August 15th at @aescripts.com! aescripts.com/random-roller/

New website! 🌟 I've got upcoming availability to help with After Effects toolkitting and other technical projects. rob-barrett.com

Hello citizens of the European Union, there are only 125,000 signatures left for this petition to be taken into account! It really does take 30 seconds.

New post! My YouTube obsession is paying off: kevinparry.tv/blog/my-yout...

Went on a walk with a cat! Pretty photogenic ❤️ 🐈‍⬛