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Bank Runners drops tomorrow—let’s peek under the hood of this printing press

each of the 1776 animated banknotes uses a mix of design, animation, 3D modeling, and video work

crafted, not generated. let's dive deeper 🧵

each Bank Runner is a one-of-a-kind bitcoin artwork, individually numbered and bursting with distinctive flair

I used 12 layer groups and 150+ art layers—could’ve produced millions of unique notes, but curated it down to 1776 making some traits super rare 👀

Digital Artist. Bank Runner.

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did i mention the 12 ultra rare Bank Runners with 1/1 centerpieces?

anyways, more on the creative process below 👇

I kicked things off in Illustrator, my digital playground 

i made each banknote layer from scratch, building up the layers: base colors, textures, borders

from there, I stacked on the flair: adornments, corner emblems, stamps, center frames, and text themes, building the prototype piece by piece

using a master composition, I pulled all the layers together into one banknote design

tweaks? oh yeah, lots. I cycled obsessively through every layer, fine-tuning until it all clicked for the final, polished 'Bank Runners' notes

for animation, I brought all the art into After Effects, stacking layers for each attribute—traits bundled into groups, plus mini-compositions for animations and tweaks on the fly

for the 3D stuff, I jumped into C4D, crafting running characters, two satoshis, and those slick 3D satoshi masks for the portraits

then brought those animations back to After Effects, to apply color correction and other effects to nail the final vibe

for the portrait loops, techniques like face masking, video tracking, and rotoscoping did the heavy lifting

compiling and rendering the final banknotes:

with art and animations locked in, we used JavaScript expressions in After Effects to pick elements based on a handcrafted attributes database a.k.a. spreadsheet

no algorithms or anything like that—my vision, my rules

this spreadsheet was my secret sauce, ensuring every 'Bank Runner' banknote stood out as super unique

twelve art layer groups danced to my database’s tune, pumping out unique compositions to be rendered

each banknote is a bold, one-of-a-kind story of monetary revolution - looping in 4k resolution

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