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Anime style lightning effect
Contents Lightning animation 1. Base layer 2. Core lightning layer Variations of Advanced Lightning Bouncey Anywhere I appreciated the next video which explains how to make the effect in details. Lightning animation This section was written on July, 2026. Next animation was the one I made by following steps: 1. Base layer Create new solid layer Add an effect Advanced Lightning and set following properties: Glow Settings > Forking to 0, to remove lightning hairs Change other settings on Glow settings and Core Settings to get what you want Animate the layer by Clicking the stop watch on the Conductivity State Set the different values of Conductivity State in a few key frames 2. Core lightning layer This will change the color of the core of the lightning to the color you want It's because core and glow settings use screen-style blend instead of normal blend. So if the core color is a bright color like white, this isn't necessary.
July 12, 2026
First thoughts after watching Classroom of the Elite Season 4 Episode 16
I am a light novel reader for this series and this note includes a spoiler. I watched Classroom of the Elite, COTE, season 4, episode 16, which was the final episode in this season. It was a great episode with a lot of fighting scenes and worth watching as anime. At first, Horikita found the note that Kiyotaka Ayanokoji will be expelled in I-2, and decided to go there. She met Ibuki and then Amasawa in the middle of the way. And Ibuki left in order to get more points than Horikita. Afterward, Horikita started talking to Amasawa, and Amasawa was just trying to provoke her about not knowing Ayanokoji well enough and tried to block her. She felt it was going to fight so she prepared to fight and Amasawa started. Obviously, Horikita couldn't win against Amasawa; she was thrown with Judo, and then Amasawa kicked her and knocked her down. But Amasawa's goal was to buy her time. Afterward, she stood up and Amasawa tried to punch Ibuki, but Ibuki caught her fist. Well, it's a little weird to me that Amasawa couldn't see Ibuki even though she was in front of her. Anyhow, they started fighting against Amasawa together. Time by time they argued with each other about a few things, and each time, Amasawa just watched them without attacking. It was good because obviously, her purpose wasn't to win against them, or at least she underestimated them. Then Horikita learned something from Amasawa and told Ibuki about it, and then Amasawa suddenly froze and took a hit from both of them. Then Horikita and Ibuki found out she had taken damage on the side of her belly. And Amasawa allowed them to pass by, because she had earned enough time. If that hit had come from Tsukishiro, it would defeat her purpose of being able to stop anyone who was trying to reach the place. Or maybe she didn't do what she was told and he didn't care. In terms of animation, Amasawa's fighting was so smooth as she moved against 2 people, and it was patently obvious she was so agile and powerful in that fight.
July 11, 2026
Random thoughts after re-watching Saga of Tanya the Evil episode 6
This note includes a spoiler. I watched the Saga of Tanya the Evil episode 6. I watched this series a long time ago, and I liked it, but I forgot most of the story, so before the season 2, I decided to watch again. So unlike the previous episode, this episode was pretty serious. The HQ in the Empire needed the 203rd battalion to go to the Norden, and Tanya left. And she also predicted there were some other countries intercepting the Empire, like the Republic. And also she guessed Being X was involved.
July 9, 2026
Random thoughts after re-watching Saga of Tanya the Evil episode 5
This note includes a spoiler. I watched the Saga of Tanya the Evil episode 5. I watched this series a long time ago, and I liked it, but I forgot most of the story, so before the season 2, I decided to watch again. It was funny that Tanya never talked what she really wanted to anyone and other people also tried to do what she didn't want them to do. Visha was a very capable assistant that she made the team got up to speed but Tanya really want to make team setup delayed. She even did the same interview with Zuttour and got extra time for trainings. She asked only a short amount of time and Zuttor allowed, but other people didn't believe that a training can be only done in a month. Well, she obviously failed to do expectation management.
July 8, 2026
Random thoughts after re-watching Saga of Tanya the Evil episode 4
This note includes a spoiler. I watched the Saga of Tanya the Evil episode 4. I watched this series a long time ago, and I liked it, but I forgot most of the story, so before the season 2, I decided to watch again. This might be the most peaceful episode for Tanya. Tanya studied in a university for a half year. She answered a use case in the university perfectly in a class. Well, she was just an employee in a company in her past life, how could she know these things? Or was that easy enough to learn in a half year? In a day, she took care of a rifle in the afternoon while others were out in the classroom, and from other people, she was someone who really wanted to go back to the front lines and wanted to fight, which was exactly the opposite of what she wanted.
July 7, 2026
Random thoughts after re-watching Saga of Tanya the Evil episode 3
This note includes a spoiler. I watched the Saga of Tanya the Evil episode 3. I watched this series a long time ago, and I liked it, but I forgot most of the story, so before the season 2, I decided to watch again. So, this episode solved my question I had in the episode 1. It started that Tanya was about to move to the science department in a lab. But she was trying not to make bad impressions that she didn't want to come back to the front line to her boss, so she showed she reluctantly accepted it. Well, that obviously caused a miscommunication, I guess, because it was so indirect.
July 6, 2026
Random thoughts after re-watching Saga of Tanya the Evil episode 2
This note includes a spoiler. I watched the Saga of Tanya the Evil episode 2. I watched this series a long time ago, and I liked it, but I forgot most of the story, so before the season 2, I decided to watch again. The first half of the episode was how Tanya was born. She was reincarnated from a man who was killed by another man by pushing him in front of a train. He had fired that man, who he had thought that man was incompetent and that was a revenge. Right before he was dead, God stopped the time, and talked to him from all of other people and pigeons. The God complainted he didn't believe them and figured out he was satisified with his life and didn't seek God. Instead, he thought they were devils or similar to that, and he called it "Being X." So that was the start of Tanya. Well, firing employees by a manager is common in some companies, so maybe they deserve reincarnations according to this. He had a humor and talked to the Gods that overwork was wrong and they didn't understand customer's needs right before he was dead and he knew he was going to be dead.
July 5, 2026
Anime style fire
Contents Fire animation 1. Create a fire with one color 2. Create an inner fire 3. Create sparks 4. Create another sparks 5. Compose all compositions I appreciated the next video which explains how to make the effect in details. Use audio on the Android App to auto-translate. Fire animation This section was written on July, 2026.
July 5, 2026
Random thoughts after re-watching Saga of Tanya the Evil episode 1
This note includes a spoiler. I watched the Saga of Tanya the Evil episode 1. I watched this series a long time ago, and I liked it, but I forgot most of the story, so before the season 2, I decided to watch again. This anime was mainly for a war similar to the World War 1, and the Empire was from Germany, and the Republic was from France. But as it's a fantasy, there is a unit who can use a magic and they can even fly and use a magic power into a gun.
July 4, 2026
Sparkling Stars animation
Contents Sparkling stars animation 1. Make a star object and animate it 2. Create an entire animation I appreciated the next video which explains how to make the effect in details. Sparkling stars animation 1. Make a star object and animate it Add new Shape layer New > Shape On the right of Shape Layer1 > Contents, there is a button Add. With that, Add Ellipse and make the size fits to your composition Add Fill and then change the color like yellow Add *Pucker & Bloat Animate this star. Change the Pucker & Bloat > Amount and Transform > Scale to make this star animated. In the example, 2. Set the 1st key frame to set -45 Amount and Scale 0, and 3. Set the next key frame to set a different Amount and Scale 0 4. In the middle of the above key frames, set the Scale to 100 Go to a Graph editor by selecting a Graph icon. Right click and select Edit Value Graph. Use Easy Ease to make the graph to have a longer time around the scale is 100% Rename the layer like Star Add a Outer Glow effect on the Star layer and the set properties The Color as the same color as the Shape Set the Size and Opacity Add this Shape layer into a new composition, like Star 2. Create an entire animation Create new composition, let's say "Compositing" Duplicate Star compositions as many starts as you want, and then change them look random like Set properties of Scale or Rotation Change the keyframes timing on animations
July 4, 2026