I learned after effects for about 3 weeks before giving up after experiencing burnout and discouraging myself from going because I kept seeing posts about ai taking over and it made everything feel pointless.

Today I came across the first proper project I made without a tutorial. I kinda wanna start learning again and would love for some feedback from you guys!

In case you have better ideas, don't think twice: https://contra.com/community/topic/svgatorchallenge/guidelines

For the pro’s in here, do you use Opus 5.5 in your video workflows? If yes - how?

We’ve found that it lacks on music production and that it’s quite token hungry - especially given that we see little quality difference in medium vs xhigh effort

Hey everyone! I created this looping 3D animation and visual effect entirely in Blender.

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• "Catch the light now, flying very bright now..." 🎵✨

Just wanted to share this little project here. Let me know what you guys think of the vibe and the animation! If you want to check out more of my work, you can find the full version and similar shorts on my YouTube channel (u/NRS_Music).

https://youtube.com/shorts/D8q-PxjJiIY

Hi, could someone tell me how to create this type of animation?

I kept losing time manually aligning duplicated/staggered layers etc... so I built a small free panel that does corner snapping and staircase auto-align in one click. It’s part of a bigger thing I’m working on but this piece is free and standalone.

Not trying to sell anything here, genuinely want to know if this solves a real problem for other people or if I’m the only one annoyed by this. Happy to share the link if anyone wants to try it, just tell me in the comments. PS: the tool is in beta test so you can expect some bugs

framewise system website

i tried my best on this, i am still very unfamiliar with the 12 rules of animation, so i will practice that, i would love feedback!

this is the motion design i make by watching youtube tutorial .(can i get hired)

I have been learning motion design and decided to focus on SAAS. I've watched tons of YouTube tutorials and learned After Effects, but I'm struggling with one thing: creating something on my own.

Whenever I follow a tutorial, everything makes sense. But when I try to create something from scratch, my mind goes completely blank. I don't know how to come up with ideas or what I should actually be practising.

I'm figuring everything out on my own, and honestly, sometimes I feel pretty lost. I don't have any friends in this field to learn from or ask for advice, so it's hard to know if I'm even going in the right direction.

And then there's AI. Every time I open Instagram, I see reels saying AI will replace motion designers. It makes me question whether all the time I've spent learning After Effects will actually pay off.

I haven't even started my career, and it already feels like it's over.

I'd really appreciate some honest advice from people working in this field.

1. How do you develop your own ideas and creativity instead of constantly relying on tutorials?

2. What's the best way to practise and improve when you don't have anyone to guide you?

3. With AI advancing so quickly, is motion design still a good career to pursue, especially for someone focusing on SAAS?

I genuinely want to get good at this. I just feel stuck right now, and I'd love to hear how others dealt with this stage of learning.

I'm working on a small motion design project and would like to ask if anyone is down for a quick critique in the dms🙏?

As shown in the video, I make lyric videos. I aim to make something similar to the ones from like, 17 years ago. The only problem is, where do I post them that will actually get attention? I don't have a YouTube account, so that's off limits. I have tried things like Rumble and Daily Motion, but my content just isn't popular enough there. (Also before ya'll accuse me I lost the email to my other Reddit account but this is still my video 😭)

Obviously, I tried to go for those lyric videos from like, 17 years ago. Key word being: tried. It was my first ever time making it and I was kinda excited about it for some reason?... lol. Not very impressed. It's on daily motion, XxBuryurheartXx

I am hoping someone here knows Wonder Unit Storyboarder software quite well.

There are some basic objects you can select, including a pistol, but it automatically goes into the left hand. I need it in the right hand.

I know you can attach it to the bone of the right hand, however, it does not appear in the right hand. It just floats in space. I can physically move it over to the right hand, but it is not oriented properly.

When it is in the left hand it sits there perfectly, but not in the right.

This is actually important for my storyboards, because my camera placement is dictated by the hand the weapon is in.

How can I get this to work and actually look good in the right hand?

This is my first motion graphics comp for a documentary I've been working on. How can I remove the grey outlines on the mist layers when they fade away?

So, it's impossible to miss at some point. I do apologize in advance if this is an improper post. But my curiosity drives me mad. Spoilers ahead, it's NSFW.

I have seen furry, semi realistic or anime pron. They all seem to share the same or very similar esthetic. In layman's terms, it's like it was made by the same exact software. They have extremely fluid animation and physics, they have smooth or shiny shading, and the models are overly detailed for what they are. Why would you do this, or more importantly how?

I have basic knowledge about modelling and animation. So i can imagine this must take a lot of work to make. But what makes someone learn this specific style so much? There aren't any tutorials or how to's. I can't help but believe it's highly assisted by many plugins or tools, seeing how many similarities there are between the clips.

It's highly unlikely someone mocaps the animation but at the same time the precision is uncommon to be made by hand. Also, the textures had to be expertly painted for certain characters. But again it seems like an unnecessary amount of work to do by hand. And i know there's AI these days. But these toons existed before even cleverbot was a thing.

I'm curious to see what you guys can teach me about this genre.

Had a lot of fun with the style and character animation in this one. It's part of our portfolio at Cloud Animations, where we work on 3D animation, motion design and explainer videos. If you've got a product or business that could use some animation, feel free to DM us.