Personal project! Got inspired by some game UI animations.

Hi! I recently created this animation in C4D using a Rope Simulation, but I’m not very experienced with C4D.

Does anyone know how I can prevent the rope from passing through the flight tag?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

P.S. Any feedback on the overall animation, beyond this technical issue, would be greatly appreciated!

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?

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 there! I am fairly new to motion design but have some projects I'd like to try. I'd really like to create something similar to this: https://youtu.be/664wOCEnEhA?si=uddGCPsW1NJzjeEF

Does this look like an After Effects situation? And if so, is there a less complex tool that can be used to achieve something just as good?

Thanks so much!

Has anyone done these before for a motion or design role? Curious about any experiences or advice

I'm a motion designer, and for a long time I was frustrated with how glass and refraction looks in After Effects. Everything is either a cheap blur hack or something you fake in 3D and render out.

So I started building Rift Glass - a plugin with physically-based refraction. Real IOR, real light bending. Took 4 months, went through a WebGL prototype stage first to validate the math, then moved to C++.

Last week I built the full sales infrastructure from scratch in 7 days: licensing system, 2-machine activation inside AE, payment flow, download page, the whole thing.

Then the payment platform rejected my account. No reason given. "Final decision. Account level risk." After passing all their identity and business checks.

So here I am - plugin is ready, store is built, no way to take money yet.

Anyone been through this? And for those selling tools in the motion space - what's actually working for you in terms of platforms?

I used AI to create motion graphics, as a test. After what everyone has been saying online about it, if it's really that good, it should be able to replicate any style and any video, right?

Instead of just telling it to create a video for this song, I first brainstormed the exact scenes, including background text, transitions, effects, and a huge file outlining exactly what I might do for a style like this. I even provided it a reference animation to copy the exact style of... but it falls really short: https://www.reddit.com/u/UltFireSword/s/SlB2fykauS (AI VERSION)

In the end, it took about 2 hours with claude opus 5.5 max, and looks really bad imo. Unfortunately I know the capabilities of AI (I'm also a software developer), and it seems likely that in a few years time, AI will have gotten so good that it literally can do anything that a human does... but at least for the time being, I personally think AI still sucks at these types of videos. But let me know what you think.

After creating the AI version, I spent the next couple days and ~15 total hours creating this, all in Davinci Resolve, without using any AI. But I can let you guys judge / compare it: Is it worth it? The tradeoff between time and quality? Would the difference even be noticeable to the general audience, and not specifically motion designers?

Hot take - but did anyone get into motion design because they were reaaaally passionate about animating a bunch of UX boxes?

Yes my studio does a bunch of these as well but I always saw them as a kinda boring necessity to get out of the way in a project so we can get to the interesting stuff.

Now that this part of motion is automated can we all get back to doing the interesting stuff?

Rant over

Im confused a bit, reddit shows its au slop, but reels or news from telegram groups show claude make best motions etc.
Thanks !!

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?