Do you guys have any advice for someone trying to make it as a freelance motion designer without a solid work experience? Due to personal circumstances, my only recent experiences are sporadic freelance design work. I don't have any experiences working with a team or as an inhouse designer. But recently I have learned motion design. Combined with some online courses and learning on my own, I think I have a pretty good grasp of it. I have a few professional projects and the rest are all personal projects.

Do I make a showreel of my few motion pieces? Or just show them separately?

Is making connections on LinkedIn the best way? Any tips on establishing a good connection?

Any other general tips for freelancing in this field?

Thanks in advance

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I am curious to know what professional designers went through when they first started (self taught included).

A motion art video and soundscape. These are short videos meant to be viewed in a loop. #motionart #motion #art #artcore #music #animate #loops #mediavortex #media #motionartist #animation

[Update: I am interested in people’s insight and thoughts. If anybody is using alternatives professionally for motion design already and what their experiences are.]

Ok, this is always current and has been done before, but still… I know not every tool does everything AE can and that there’s no true replacement atm, but at least to me that’s also because of the vast plugin ecosystem/ landscape. Not an Adobe fan at all. If I could drop it today, I would. Even though I spent a lot of money and time for it and because of it. And mostly that would be Adobes fault and not because of AE itself.

Maybe it’s a combination of a few tools like Cavalry + Blender. We will see.

And yeah Blender is in there too although C4D isn’t and Nuke isn’t because mostly VFX but Rive is I know… 😂

Please add to it, discuss, dismiss… Would love to hear what you think.

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Does anyone know how to make animated videos like the ones below or what program is used to make them:

https://youtu.be/AVIBLFl28vo?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/lYWhX4JuYxI?feature=shared

I am looking to make some motion animations, but definitely not too computer savvy. I watched a couple videos on Blender, seems way too technical for my skills. I am just starting out, and hoping there is an easier way!

I'm trying to auto trace a composition but every time I click on "Work Area" it crashes. When I click "Current Frame", it's totally fine. Any ideas?

I've tried opening in safe mode, emptying disk cache andf adjusting work areas in timeline.

I did this the other day the exact way I'm attempting to now and it went perfectly fine, the only difference is that illustration had a 0.5 gaussian blur.

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Right now, she's working on building a team of 3D artists who are open to taking freelance projects. Essentially, Ksenia will be promoting Ukrainian artists in France, finding clients and projects for them. Motion and 3D work are well-paid in France, so it’s definitely a direction worth exploring.

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Everywhere I look, people say “specialize to stand out.” But when I try to go deep into one area of 3D or design, I lose interest fast. I like jumping between modeling, animation, visual effects, editing — the whole toolbox.

But then I wonder… am I hurting my chances at a good career or stable income by not specializing?

Has anyone here figured out how to make generalist skills work in the creative industry? Or found a way to enjoy both curiosity and a clear niche?

Would love to hear your stories!

I'm an animation student making collage-style work like Lucas Mariano’s stuff for Vox and NYT Opinion. Lots of 3D layers, camera moves, and everything’s in glorious 4K. I use Adobe Suite and DaVinci Resolve Fusion, and I’m currently punishing myself by doing all of this on a laptop.

Time to upgrade — but I’m torn. For the same price, should I build a PC and get more raw power, or go with the Mac Mini M4 Pro and enjoy that sweet, sweet plug-and-play peace of mind?

Recreated this rig from Antonin Waterkeyn (https://www.instagram.com/p/DH2hEvWsp-l/) in After Effects using expressions and this shape layer preset: https://slemmercreative.com/light-beam.

I'm a freelancer and wondering what the proper etiquette is on giving other, equal freelancers notes and comments. Is it appropriate or kind of rude move? The reason I ask is it feels like notes generally come from your AD/CD or superior so if someone else is just giving you notes, especially in front of your boss it makes you look in a bad light or am i overthinking this?

I'm not talking about like useful notes, just like giving unsolicited advice / ideas.

Thank you for watching! Feedbacks are appreciated! I realised that i couldve add in some match cuts and more past projects to make it more interesting. Other than that, let me know what you guys think!

Hello, All!

I've been working on teaching myself motion design for a while now, and feel that I have a pretty good grasp of working with AE. I wanted to take my skills into a more practical use and create a title sequence, but don't know too much about the process to create one.

I've been doing some research and think I was able to scratch the surface of the phases in conceptualizing with mood boards, style frames, and storyboards before animating, but I'm finding that my level of knowledge is not enough to actually start building out title sequences.

So I wanted to ask Reddit to see if anyone has some recs that are free where I can get a good breakdown on the process to create a title sequence? I'm really looking for information on how to conceptualize, how to pick out mood boards and determine style frames. I don't necessarily have an issue with the technical aspect so much I have a hard time understanding the thought processes of determining what works and what doesn't for each phase of the process. So anything that people can offer would be so helpful!

Thank you in advance!

I do motion design on the side and I hate sending people to my website. It never feels updated enough, and no one clicks links in DMs anyway. Plus, the amount of people that I can find to send to my website is very low.

Is there a platform that makes it easier to showcase your work and get discovered for paid gigs?

I know Behance exists, but I haven’t gotten a single inbound from there in years. Where are y'all getting inbound/good projects from?

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Made entirely in Blender with the awesome Molecular Plus add-on for simulation, and a little compositing in DaVinci.

i am a fulltime media-designer/artist and was assigned by one of my most important clients to create a videoprojection (with litte mapping-parts) for an event of a company X. my client is an agency which creates events for huge companies and does all the production, concept and visual branding etc pp of those events.

now it's the first time, that the company X actually wants to use the content of my projection for their purposes, bc they liked it so much (i heard that on the event bystanding some conversations). my client now asked me to 'Send us the file' of the projection.

bc there is absoluty no formal agreement about how to deal with it, and bc I created the content specifically for the event, I am hesitant to just hand it over. and bc I hope to earn maybe something extra? the rights of use for content normally are really specific.

the job was payed good, the content was mid-level hard to make (2d AE-work). all the assets I used I got from my client's inhouse design-team. so I basically animated pre-existing asset.
I assume, that there is a contract, that all assets created by my client are free to use for the Company. but I am not their employee, I am a freelancer.

what to do? am I maybe ruining my good relationship to a year long client who makes like 1/3 of my yearly income? is it good to at least have a convo about the topic rights of use, before handing them over the file?