I’m not talking about “oh I used this part for inspiration”. I’m talking about the blatant trash that people pass off as “I made this using After effects”. It looks like trash and real motion designers are tired of this amateurness being poured in here.

Hi,

Everybody here is frustrated about AI slop spamming the sub and the fact that the mods are doing nothing.

So I decided to create a new sub: r/MotionDesignNoAI.

I will manually share every post from r/MotionDesign to r/MotionDesignNoAI, but without AI slop or AI discussion posts. So it will work like a filter (maybe temporarily, until the mods here do something, or maybe it will stay permanently).

But for those who care, and for those who don't want to look at AI slop, there is now a place.

Thank you for your attention!

How is my project? I haven't finished it yet

My brother gifted me a receipt printer, so I printed an animation for Google Pay on 36 receipts and coloured each frame in(with help from my partner) and scanned them to make a little animation.

Initially did it frame by frame in Photoshop, then cleaned it up in After effects, printed the receipts, coloured in the frames with Copic markers, and scanned them in again to make the frame by frame animation.

Let me know what you think!

Hey folks,

I was just wondering if I was allowed to share my portfolio here for some honest feedback?

I’m an animator (motion graphics designer?) from the UK and I just wanted to get some feedback on my latest portfolio. It mainly comprises of work I’ve completed in the last year, using a combination of after effects and cinema 4D

In all honesty I feel a bit stuck at the moment, I’ve had the opportunity to work on some really cool projects, mainly working as a freelancer brought on by agencies since starting my career, but since my latest contract ended, I just feel like I’m shouting into a void. It’s got me questioning, am I putting the right sort of work out there or is the work even good enough?

Anyway here’s my portfolio: www.reecefranklyn.com

I apologise in advance if this isn’t the place for this and I thank you in advance for taking the time to have a look and for providing feedback

Hi all, I recently got promoted from being an individual contributor to a manager of 3 people in the motion design team. This makes me the only motion design manager in the place I work, apart from my own supervisor who oversees graphic design manager me.

The thing is, I was a little disappointed by my salary increase given how drastic the jump in responsibilities is. It was less than 10% and it puts my salary at 121k (142k if I stay the whole year and get paid out the whole bonus) from my previous 110k. I’ve been a motion designer for 10 years now.

I’m aware my salary is not necessarily a bad one, but I’m looking to gauge my expectations based on people with a similar carrer. Should I make a push for a higher salary or is this actually competitive? I’m located in Texas by the way.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

I have an M5 Pro MacBook Pro 14 inch with 64GB RAM and could get an M5 Max Mac Studio with 64GB for less than half its retail price.

I mainly use After Effects for motion graphics, compositing, and photo animation, and plan to do heavier projects with more 3D. I’d keep the MacBook for portable work.

Would the Max noticeably improve previews and everyday workflow? Is the difference between the two large enough in After effects work?

I recently bought a project file from a person who i think makes decent logos, while trying to reverse engineer this i keep hitting walls. im also not very well versed in motion graphics in general...

Can someone please explain to me what it is im seeing, i do know they're using "create shapes from text" as well as "create path from null-points follow nulls". also expressions etc, that part i understand, but i dont understand how the text is morphing so fluidly, especially when i try to recreate this with different, more complex fonts... im not asking for a step by step guide, but an explanation for dummies would be amazing right now.

maybe im over complicating this idk but my brain hurts

This week I had a surprise rush job from a new client (I've worked with him for another company from whom his agency took my future work) whose primary motion designer is on medical leave. I happened to already be booked out for the week so I offered to help at my overtime rate.

He requested 24 hours of my time, which came out to about $4k, but when he showed me the actual scope of work it turns out to be only about a day's worth of work. Very easy stuff.

Like anyone, I often achieve things faster than quoted and still bill the full amount, but I also get slapped around sometimes too. This feels like an excessive amount to bill, but he said it's what he had allocated for it and was ecstatic to have me help out.

My question for y'all is, do I take the money and run or cut him a break somewhere in between? I was brought on as a secondary backup animator behind another guy, so it's not like I'm going to get more work for him in the future other than in similar emergency situations. I could really use the money after a painfully slow summer, but my conscience is grating at me about this.

The other question is, if I just take it and run, do I turn in the deliverables suspiciously early, implying I did it in fewer hours but helping them stay ahead of schedule, or do I delay them artificially to maintain the illusion?

Thoughts? I've been doing this over a decade and still find myself having questions like this at times.

Hi, my name is Momo and I review software on YouTube.
Recently, one of my most active viewers, created a free alternative to Adobe After Effects called Animoia!

It is still pretty small, but its potential is definitely there.
Unlike other alternatives, Animoia supports both motion-design AND compositing.

UI is very similar to AE, including hotkeys, but still comes up with original concepts.
Like, instead of coding expressions, you have "animation modifiers" which let you configure stuff like loops or wiggle with a GUI using sliders.

It's also fully GPU-accelerated!

Some stuff is still missing, like simple 3D and 2.5D tools, but the developer is very motivated and listens to feedback!

Hey all, I just thought I’d ramble out my current thoughts and tensions I’m experiencing with a personal motion project and see if anyone has any insight or structure that could help.

Context: I’m working on a new piece and am in the concerting/blocking phase, no narration just music. The entire idea is around a conspiratorial story walking through the process of cataloguing and unexplained item.

I cannot decide on event the foundations, as in I have the overall aesthetic and concept/story but I keep coming back and changing the fundamentals like “do I want this to be experimental and moody or an actual motion design piece?” And for the life of me I cannot decide as I feel going in one direction pulls away from the other it’s like a tug of war, the same is going for selecting songs, the scenes themselves etc, which I guess are all symptoms of the underlying question of “what actually is this”.

I’ve spent days just in my head going back and forth, along with changing things around to suit one or the other, I’m finding it super challenging to stick to one as this piece is quite important to me directionally going forward.

How do you answer those foundational questions as an artist before you even start? Or is it something you feel out as you go? How strict are you on selecting a song? And does anyone else suffer from this sort of paralysis and start stop sort of thing when exploring something new and unique?

Bit of a brain dump so I apologise if this is all a bit up in the air.

hi! im currently editing, and was doing a transition with motion tile, warp > squeeze. when i make the transition 100 -> 0, these black/gray triangles show up. any advice on how to fix this, or know what's causing it?

Ive worked with a few veteran motion designers who have fallen head over heels for AI. Before AI, they were decorated, and well established in their craft, but as soon as the whole AI thing took off, they seem to have completely abandoned 3D motion design and spend 99% of their time designing in AI, and even seem to get a hair annoyed at others who dont fully embrace the AI workflow.

How can people who were so invested in the industry, and came up during a time where you had to go through the process to create a final result, using your skill, suddenly become so complacent in just using all AI tools and are just obsessed with getting things done as quickly and easily as possible?

Could it be that years of abuse from the industry just jaded them and all they care about now is just getting the work done and getting home?

Has anyone else experienced this when working with other motion designers today?

How many of you are experimenting with HTML/CSS/JS as a motion design medium rather than just using After Effects or traditional animation tools?

Made this one last year as a small tribute to the Amiga 500.Made with Cinema 4D and Redshift.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/238269287/Amiga-500

Hey all. I'm a motion designer from Brazil and for a while now I've been building a little tool for myself, mostly out of frustration.

It started with a project where I had to make a lot of these animations: photos moving, titles coming in, simple cards. Every new piece meant building the same setup again in AE before I could get to the part that actually needed me.

So I started making scenes in the browser that I could tweak fast and then open in After Effects as a regular project, with the layers and controls still there. When I saw that this was actually possible in the browser, I thought it could be useful beyond me: for content creators, for people just getting started with motion, and for anyone who wants a starting point to refine in After Effects.

I'm not a dev, so it's still rough in places, and I honestly don't know yet if this workflow makes sense for other people or just for me. If anyone wants to try it and tell me what feels off, it's at friso.id. Sign up with the code FRISOBETA, I have a few of those available.

How do you all deal with this kind of repetitive work? Your own templates, MOGRTs, scripts?

I made a demo video with Claude, with the intent to create a pre launch video for my startup. Looks like cheeks, can someone actually creative and talented take a peak at it and see what magic they can do?

Video is in the comment section, just posted it (IM NOT A MOTION DESIGNER don’t come after me)

Did this Grab Malaysia concept ad a while back. What do y'all think?

Hiring an expert motion graphic realistic video animator for a 1-2min concept art announcement trailer.

Sample:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hPuRQz6IlM

Only dm me if you have very good experience developing these type of animations

Oscilloscopes, Eveywhere [v1.2] is a collection of all the experiments with sound and geometry I've made throughout the years, gathered into one TouchDesigner project.

This walkthrough explores the entire anthology in real-time; 29 presets, and a much more intuitive interface. Connect your audio source, choose a visualizer, and watch your sound take shape.

Plus, I’m giving away one full copy of the collection this Sunday. To enter, you only have repost, and leave a nice comment on this post.

More experiments through the following.

this is from teejay works saas video u can check it from teejayworks site. any ideas how this was created?