Shit. I've never seen a swizzle used like that and I'm actually sad i hadn't thought of it. Designer is an image processor - nothing more. It's not a VFX package, it's not a magic bullet - it's a platform for programmatically fucking with pixels. Can you generate animations for use in VFX scenarios? Yes. Can you create…
I've come to appreciate it a bit more as time progresses and have found some tutorials since that show how it can be integrated into a VFX workflow. You're right it's not a magic bullet but, it is a very powerful tool. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a VFX tool, I guess I just thought it should be. Maybe in…