Adam Plouff is a freelance motion designer and animator based in Atlanta, Georgia. During our conversation, we discuss the beginnings of Rubberhose, how to start coding for animation, and his most recent project: “Why Pay?”.
Links:
Why Pay: https://vimeo.com/145548262
Rubberhose: http://www.battleaxe.co/
Highlights:
- Photoshop T-Shirt Designer
- Lead singer of a hardcore metal band
- Learned Final Cut 6 & After Effects
- Animators Kit
- Writing expressions
- “Try to push yourself forward with every project.”
- How to make lines, curves and invert values and volumes
- Rubberhose beginnings
- ”Coding can be taunting: someone described it as staring into the void”
- ”I wrangle data with code. If you can think of it in those terms: it’s just a different way of managing data.”
- Dream client: Myself.
- Favorite Animated Film: Iron Giant , Rejected by Don Hertzfeldt
- What your kids think you do: I make robots
- Animalator: A sloth because they are adorable, and they know how to chill and I don’t.