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Film Amor
A collection for the love of film.
Browse directors, films and series. Search by name, filter by genre or year, and save what you want to watch.
Studio experiments.
Apps
Tools for the parts of the workflow that should be faster.
After Effects · v1.1
Move
Organize a messy After Effects project in one click.
A panel for After Effects that takes a cluttered Project panel and sorts it into a clean folder structure, by type, nested, with label colors, regrouping .ai/.psd layers. The existing organizer annoyed me, so I rebuilt it as vanilla CEP, mine to change. One Cmd+Z undoes the whole thing.
Install open the .zxp with a ZXP installer (e.g. ZXPInstaller) · AE 2022+
Chrome · v1.1.0
ClickUp Time Logger
Log your hours without opening ClickUp.
A Chrome extension that logs time straight to the ClickUp API. Pick project, pick section, type hours, four clicks, no tab-switching. Filling timesheets in ClickUp itself was the slow part. Your token stays in the browser and only ever talks to ClickUp.
Install unzip → load unpacked → pick the v1.1.0 folder
Eagle · v1.1.0
Eagle Bulk Rename
Batch-rename in Eagle, without leaving Eagle.
An Eagle plugin that renames a stack of selected assets at once, find & replace, strip digits and symbols, casing, numbering, and smart tokens that fill in date, extension and tags. Live preview before you commit. Renaming files one by one was a tax I didn't want to keep paying.
Install double-click the .eagleplugin
macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon
Bulk Rename Mac
Batch-rename real files, with Finder tags.
A native macOS app that renames a whole folder at once, find & replace, casing, numbering, and smart date/extension tokens, plus Finder tags, labels and comments. Same lime-glass UI as the Eagle plugin, but it touches the real files on disk. Live preview, per-file ticks, sort and select-by-kind before you commit.
Install unzip → drag to Applications → right-click → Open
macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon
Amor Frame Extractor
Pull full-res stills out of any video or GIF.
A native macOS app that opens any video or GIF and grabs a full native-resolution snapshot at every step of the timeline (5% by default, ~21 stills), tick the frames you want, export to JPG / PNG / TIFF / HEIC with a quality slider. No re-encode, no downscale, exact seek. Built because pulling clean frames out of footage was always more fiddly than it should be.
Install unzip → drag to Applications → right-click → Open
macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon
Gif it Amor
Record your screen straight to a GIF.
A native macOS screen-to-GIF recorder and editor, there's no ScreenToGif on Mac, so I built one. Drag a see-through capture frame anywhere (or type an exact W×H), record with ScreenCaptureKit, then a full editor: trim and reorder frames, crop and resize them all at once, set the quality, and export. Spacebar plays the result.
Install unzip → drag the app to Applications
Reads
Field guides for thinking with more shape.
PDF · 35pp
The Art Director's Strategy Playbook
25 strategy frameworks, no MBA required.
A 35-page field guide for a craft-led art director moving into strategy. 25 brand and marketing frameworks, SWOT, Porter's Five Forces, jobs-to-be-done, the 12 archetypes, get/to/by, plus how agencies actually plan and pitch, with reusable templates. Made it because I was the one in the room who needed it.
PDF · 26pp · Vol. II
The Lookdev of Strategy
Strategy, re-rendered in a motion designer's engine.
A 26-page companion that maps brand strategy onto the craft you already run, controlling idea is a logline, lookdev is the brand world, color script is tonal strategy, the treatment is the pitch. It reverse-engineers how Buck, The Mill and Territory actually think, in your words. So you can lead the room without leaving the art.
Essay · 10pp
Is It Just Code Underneath?
Vertices are vectors. The art isn't.
A 10-page essay for 3D and motion designers. It starts from a plain fact, your meshes, MoGraph, sims, lighting and renders are all linear algebra run as code, and asks the harder question: does that make it less yours. It walks from the matrix math up to where authorship actually lives, and where it goes as AI stacks one more abstraction on top.
Experiments
Side projects that became useful.
Live
Studio Atlas
1,763 artists & studios, mapped and sorted.
A browsable atlas of the artists and studios worth following, a world map, a studios grid, and people sorted by role and discipline. Built from 2,917 Instagram follows: 84 agents classified every account in parallel, then it was filtered down to 1,763 real creatives (no friends, no brands, no noise), 1,541 of them mapped across 94 countries. Search a city, filter by craft, open anyone.
1,763 artists & studios · 94 countries
Web app · WebGL
Cube
Learn to solve a Rubik's cube, then get fast.
A web app that teaches CFOP from scratch, a drag-to-turn 3D cube, 135 engine-verified algorithms with recognition diagrams, a case trainer and a WCA-style timer. Built because the solving guides I found were either too shallow or buried in walls of notation.
Tip drag a face to turn it; on the timer, hold space then release to start
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