{"id":130623,"date":"2020-05-12T07:24:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T12:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=130623"},"modified":"2020-05-12T16:25:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T21:25:57","slug":"gridrig-from-ordinary-folk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/gridrig-from-ordinary-folk\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a Look at gridRig, a Plugin from Ordinary Folk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s examine the advantages of gridRig, a plugin from Ordinary Folk. It’s an impressive tool for complex animations, allowing for some serious time-saving.<\/h2>\n

Staying at home all the time is draining my creativity. To combat this strange fatigue, I’m constantly looking for inspiration to start new projects \u2014 and, as a motion designer, that inspiration often comes in the form of scripts. The problem is that good scripts aren’t released on a daily basis. But recently, I found one that initially flew under my radar \u2014 gridRig.<\/p>\n

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What Is gridRig?<\/h3>\n
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Created with gridRig.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Created by the super-talented crew at Ordinary Folk<\/a>, gridRig is one of the most impressive scripts I\u2019ve seen in a while. It empowers you to achieve wildly complex animations within an almost impossibly short amount of time.<\/p>\n

The script is free, and you can download it from the “Play” section<\/a> of the Ordinary Folk website (alongside project files from some of the studio’s most jaw-dropping pieces of work).<\/p>\n

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A script as simple as it is impressive<\/h3>\n
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The settings are easy to access and incredibly well-organized.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

gridRig’s simplicity is what makes it impressive and fun to use. When you load the script, it’s all on one shape layer, and all the sliders are neatly organized. With only a couple of keyframes, you can get smooth and extremely intricate animations that otherwise would be a motion designer’s worst nightmare to animate by hand.<\/p>\n

I took a look under the hood to see how the script works, which was a big mistake. Unless you thoroughly understand how expressions work, I don’t recommend looking at the very intimidating code that makes it function.<\/p>\n

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How to use gridRig<\/h3>\n