A studio and a software company under one roof. The studio brings twenty-five years of motion, VFX, and large-scale production to agencies, brands, and themed entertainment. The products side builds software for motion artists and the teams around them — starting with Project Intelligence for After Effects.
From thirty-second spots to media projected across landmark architecture. The common thread is work that has to hold up on a real deadline, at real scale, in front of a real audience.
Hector J. Ortiz directs, supervises visual effects, produces, or builds — whichever role the project needs — and assembles the crew around it. Projects are taken on where that experience meets a real challenge, not just fills a seat.
A companion app for Adobe After Effects that captures how a project is built — its comments, structure, assets, fonts, colors, and thumbnails — and keeps that context readable by anyone, inside or outside After Effects.
Every project you've worked on becomes a record you can hand off, revisit, or archive with confidence, instead of a heavy file only its author understands.
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After Effects lets you comment on any layer or item, but nothing ever surfaces those comments. In a project with hundreds of layers, a note only helps if you already know where it is. Project Intelligence lists every comment in the project in one place — inside After Effects or out — and lets you organize and tag them, so you can leave a crumb trail for your future self or the next artist.
Mark which comps are the render comps and which ones matter, and write notes alongside them about how the project is wired up and how the compositions relate. Whoever opens it next — another artist, or you in three years — gets a map of the build before opening a single comp, instead of days spent reverse-engineering it.
Project Intelligence captures thumbnails, not just metadata — for every composition, or every asset in the project, your choice. Each one gets a short sequence of frames rather than a single still, so you can recognize a comp at a glance without rendering or opening anything.
Every project is indexed into a library the whole team can search offline. Artists, leads, and producers can look up which fonts, colors, logo version, and file paths a past project used — without launching After Effects or waiting on whoever built it.
Abstract Notion was founded by Hector J. Ortiz after twenty-five years in motion design, visual effects, and themed entertainment — directing, supervising VFX, and producing for brands, agencies, and theme parks around the world.
The studio takes on production work where that experience makes a difference. The products side builds the software that experience showed was missing, starting with Project Intelligence for After Effects.
Send the brief, the deadline, and the deliverable specs. We reply within one business day with scope and a quote.
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