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23/01/2023

Pioneering musician, producer, visual artist and activist Brian Eno joins Andy Haldane to discuss how we can move towards a more reciprocal relationship between people and planet.

22/01/2023

07/01/2023

18/10/2022

I've been updating my showreel and it's finally ready to share. If you're in need of a graphic or motion designer feel free to contact me.

Website update coming soon.

27/09/2022

The new campaign asks designers to commit to reducing their climate impact, offering a toolkit full of actionable steps to make it a reality.

25/12/2021

Merry Christmas! Hope everyone has a great holiday period and new year!

09/12/2020

Ever needed to control one keyframe with a slider?

Here’s an expression to apply to the scale to control the value of the second Keyframe.

Great for creating video templates or when you need multiple shapes to have a keyframe with the same value.

Just change the Name for the slider name.

You can edit further to connect the slider to the start, end, width or height keyframe/value.

The first value[0] is the width and value[1] is the length. v1 is the first value in time v2 is the second. temp connects the chosen value in time to connect to the slider value.

20/11/2020

Ever needed to control one keyframe with a slider?

Here’s an expression to apply to an x or y position to control the value of the second Keyframe.

Great for creating video templates or when you need multiple shapes to have a keyframe with the same value.

Just change the number for the keyframe you want the slider connected to and change the Name for the slider name.

31/10/2020

Happy Halloween!

Celebrating with a ghostly animation set in East London’s St Dunstan Church.

29/10/2020

to the animation from the promotional material created for Ash Music Festival presented by The Lion Brewery in aid of charities.

Always a fun event to work on for a good cause.

Full project available here https://www.russelldanielslake.com/ash-music-festival

27/10/2020

If you're looking for a Tuesday morning read, I've been featured in a great article by Tom May in Creative Boom around upskilling as a designer.

Do you consider yourself a 'graphic designer' or 'visual designer'? Many people will be surprised by that question. But the inescapable fact is that people who call themselves visual designers earn significantly...