Chris Vranos | Software Designer with animation and VFX expertise
Chris Vranos | Software Designer with animation and VFX expertise
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I couldn't decide what I wanted to do in life, so I decided to do a little bit of everything. Currently looking for my next big project, please feel free to reach out!
Highlighted Project - 3D Experience Designer for After Effects
Highlighted Project - 3D Experience Designer for After Effects
I was brought on at Adobe for my 3D expertise to design features for the After Effects 26.0 release.
I designed workflows and user experience for 3D primitives, materials, object import, rendering, and general supporting workflows. I also designed After Effects' new Unmult tool, and contributed to dozens more features and workflows across the After Effects ecosystem.
This is the one example on my page where I was an employee, not running the show, but I absolutely loved this job.
Highlighted project: Lockdown 4 - Ai powered motion tracking (2026)
Highlighted project: Lockdown 4 - Ai powered motion tracking (2026)
Lockdown has been an industry standard motion tracker since 2018, Ceated within my own company (Vranos LLC).
While much of Lockdown's tracking is fully automated with Ai and other techniques, Lockdown is loved because it is a full fledged mesh animation tool with manual controls.
Our customers love that their work is never "trapped in a black box". Lockdown allows precise intervention and correction with an inuitive control set.
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While my main focus is software design, I consider myself an expert at producing short videos, from the script through the final edit. I wrote, produced, and edited the vast majority of content you see on this site.
I own a software company, Vranos LLC, and have created many products over the years taking them from concept through release.
Highlighted Project - Natural Selection (2026)
Highlighted Project - Natural Selection (2026)
I find most employers ask how comfortable I am with "vibe coding", creating rapid prototypes with Ai. So I made this project as quickly as possible as an exercise.
In this game, you are a hawk that hunts poor little rabbits. The rabbits all start out as purple, so they're relatively easy to see. At the end of each round, each surviving rabit produces a new rabbit, which will have a slight color mutation.
Over time as you eliminate the easy to spot rabbits, the population will consist of rabbits that blend in better. I intentionally made the rabbits very hard to see, the hope is once they evolve to match the environment, you can't see them at all, selling the concept of natural selection.
I did this whole thing in 2 days using Antigravity, Claude, Gemini, and ComfyUI for images. I used After Effects and Photoshop to touch up the generated images.
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