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Daniel Laney - Available for Work

@daniellaney.com

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Professional compositor, motion designer, video editor. Work: PHA - Castlevania, Masters of the Universe, etc. SEGA - Sonic Symphony Titmouse - LoVM, Pantheon Lex & Otis - ARK: The Animated Series Compositing director on animated short film "TINKERHELL"

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · Nov 15

Hi! My name is Dan, this is my reel!

I've been working in digital media professionally over 7 years with a wide array of styles & disciplines, specializing in #editing, #compositing & all things #AfterEffects.

Hit me up for anything! 💪

🎶 Arctic Monkeys "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 6d

What the fuck do you think made people join this site in the first place lol

We know who's paying you. It's your venture capitalists. Whatcha think will happen after a massive exodus, projecting the site to be a failure?

You're betting that wont happen. Hope you're prepared to be dead wrong.

Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 7d

yeah uh no.

Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 7d

The video Owen linked is an incredible showcase of Adam and Swirsky doing this, though I wanted to show how sometimes its even worth breaking apart the form manually for an extra bit of layering and visual hierarchy. Requires a lot more work, but it can pay off esp. when the art is largely flat.

Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 7d

🤝 well said

On castle we used lotsa "microgradiation" & for cuts that were absolutely essential to get right, especially scenes with a low amount of movement, we'd dress out the character art with polish dramatically. It's a value add that IS noticeable.

One such example:
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · Nov 21

Sometimes, #animation cuts are just a still image of very detailed #art. When that happens, it only makes sense for me to go a little extra!

For one sequence in Castlevania Season 3, I was in charge of plussing a very... intimate moment, so here's some steps that went into that 😳🙈💖
#compositing

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 7d

If @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social just wants a preset that takes in a color & a midtone i can whip something up but it'd be reallly basic LOL, if you dont mind an example tomorrow!

Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 7d

...on an above layer, doing something like the original colors set to "luminance" blend mode and adjusting it to half or w/e feels right. This will get you most of the way there. It wont account for some things we often want to do like darker midtones for silk etc getting washed out, but its a start

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 7d

my own *personal* preferences though include slapping down some color cards set to multiply and/or overlay of the background color mixed in with the sun color (mayyyybe setting the sun one to add, since thats how it works IRL), and doing the same but darker for the shadow tones, then...

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 7d

🤔the question is confusing, are yall asking a quick way to get characters to match the background color generally?

Yeah there really isn't a one and done way to do that, certainly no plugin that does it. What we usually do is separate the midtones and shadows & just kinda... wing it 😂

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 17d

Felt.

You'll get there dude.

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Fred Wood @fredtwood.com · 18d

It feels incredibly special to be included in this. Thanks y'all.

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 24d

Ten years ago, today, released a game that dramatically changed the course of my life. It's given me friends and relationships I wouldn't have had otherwise, strengthened my bond with many others, and inspired me in so many ways I can't even begin to count.

Happy bday Undertale, what a work of art.

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!CHRiS! Jones ✪ @mistajonz.bsky.social · 28d

✨Sonic the Hedgehog SatAM, insert Blaze the Cat✨

Blaze the Cat in Sonic the Hedgehog SatAM with Sonic, Tails and Princess Sally

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hello from Washington DC, where hundreds of people and what seems like an unreasonable amount of police are assembling for the We Are All DC March

This is the first pre-planned, DC-focused protest since the occupation began. Let's see how this goes

🧵

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · Sep 2

Nelvana, one of Canada’s most biggest animation studios has reportedly shut down after 54 years. (1974-2025).

Workers are saying the studio has closed down its doors last Friday.

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · Aug 31

Any artists or cool people at the con, I'll be at the alley / dealer's den wearing this basically till closing. Keep your eyes open!

DLL @dandoesfx.bsky.social · Aug 31

Ran into some folks i didnt expect already so if anyone else I know is at #SanJapan look out for this funny outfit

Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · Aug 31

Yeah UTDR is pretty stacked here lol

Hope to run into ya !

Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · Aug 26

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · Aug 22

Post crew solidarity 🫡😭🙏

Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · Aug 22

Tysm david!! 💖

No doubt the editing team is intimately aware of just how *transformed* some cuts can be from start to finish when we wanna try something crazy haha, appreciate the kind words <3

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · Aug 21

Thank youuuu ❤️

That cut ended up getting used for the trailer--because of course, it's a great shot and Adam's comp work was sublime--and knowing that might happen I knew we had to nail the look haha. Glad you think so!!

Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · Aug 21

We didn't have access to Nuke for Nocturne, but I managed to use AE in a similar way with some effects like CC Composite and Set Matte and a few nested compositions haha.

The end result is a track job that gives way more dimension and shape than you'd get from a basic flat pattern track!

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · Aug 21

The majority of the actual compositing in this cut was done by @adamdeats.bsky.social (you can thank him for the "final polish" part haha), but the pattern tracking + making it consistent with other cuts was all me :D

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · Aug 21

This cut was a REAL challenge!

For Nocturne Episode 3, we wanted Edouard to have a brilliant felt coat with a pattern, but drawing that would be very complex. In his big turnaround shot, I put in a lot of care to make the pattern have shape and dimension. Lotsa steps went into that. Take a look!

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · Aug 7

How??????????

Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · Aug 6

I tend to be a yapper

Lowest call volume of the ppl in your comments but not too bad eh?

Call time for Mastercard: 12 minutes 37 seconds

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