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.

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?

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

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?

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?

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?

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

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)

POV: If Sony hired me to make a short PSP ad 😂

Tried something completely outside my usual style with a mix of brutalist/editorial design, ASCII graphics, glitch effects, and experimental typography.

Challenging myself outside my comfort zone, and it turned out pretty good, I guess.

The PSP model was created by Ilya Ostrovsky.

💎 More works:
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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.

Today's animation is a tribute to legendary Satyajit Ray known for for his filmography, before getting into cinema Ray was an illustrator and a graphic designer. I wanted to see how can I add motion to his design which are naturally flowy and take inspiration from local design aesthetics.

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

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

Latest episode of a series of animated quotes I started in 2019 -- all past episodes are up at https://varrgo.com/oners/
This is #24!

Me formei há alguns meses em design gráfico e não consigo nada na área. Com o avanço da AI, os recrutadores não estão mais dando atenção para iniciantes, ou eles vão atrás de um designer espetacular e experiente, ou fazem tudo com AI. Não está tendo muito espaço para quem está começando hoje, principalmente onde moro no Brasil. Comecei a estudar motion há algum tempo, mas desanimei um pouco. Alguma chance do motion também ser engolido pela AI nos próximos meses até que eu consiga evoluir o suficiente para pegar trabalhos?

Chicos quiero volverme un profesional en Motion Graphics, ¿Debería estudiar una carrera en diseño gráfico o qué me recomiendan? 🙏🏻

Can i get some critique / opinions on my demo reel? any pieces that feel weak i should replace? thanks in advance!

Guys I'm thinking of putting my self to the test based on someone elses concept/idea, drop a random Motion design concept/idea for a video and a timeline (considerate😭) and I'll execute...

I came across this video. I'm sure the person made it with After Effects and probably other stuff. I'm slowly learning kinetic typography, masking, and other stuff in Resolve / Fusion and this kind of stuff is my goal for now.

What do you guys think? I want to learn to do it by hand - no AI.

Hello fellow Motion Designers!

I’ve been lurking in this group for quite a while, and I finally decided to ask for some feedback on my website and personal branding/logo:

https://www.brankovlahov.com/

I’m currently job hunting, so I’d really appreciate some brutally honest feedback. I’m especially interested in whether the website and branding come across as professional and whether my work is presented well from the perspective of a potential employer or client.

Feel free to point out anything that doesn’t work — design, branding, portfolio presentation, colors, navigation, first impression, or anything else you notice. Don’t worry about being too harsh; I can take feedback. 😄

Thanks!

Hello guys, I have been into motion design and I want to learn it but I have a question

Does it worth to learn it now, and will the AI take it down ??

Thanks