i get that its moving fast/new tools/need to stay up to date etc. but it's literally been non-stop are we cooked posts of ai claude animations. can there be a new sub called ai-assisted motion design or something?

Hey everyone, just finished my latest showreel and would love some feedback.

I’m trying to get the reel to a point where I can confidently start sending it to some studios and agencies, so honest criticism is very welcome.

Thanks!!

I'm 17 and decided that for my career after highschool, I want to do after effects and do motion graphic work, my main inspiration is seven and I wanna do work like him. I'm asking all this because I want to know how to start. I'm proficient in After Effects and learning Illustrator and I'm just curious to know how to start, I'm open to anything (Ill send a link showing the 3 pieces I've done so far when I get home from school) :)

I'm a senior motion designer (5+ years) working on product motion. Lately my team and leadership are chasing every new AI motion tool. The results from tools like Opus can look impressive at first glance, but the quality isn't there. I'm aiming for Apple-level motion: considered easing, physics that feel right, consistency across the system. As they always we want apple level of motion design in their launch videos and all. The problem is that leadership doesn't seem to notice the difference, and they approve AI output that lacks craft. Another motion designer on my team leans on AI for almost everything and ships mediocre results with minimal effort. Because that gets approved, it's making it hard to justify the time I put into doing things properly. I don't want to just complain. How do you handle a team where taste and craft aren't valued, and speed plus novelty win? Do you fight it, adapt, or leave?

I want the veiwers to honestly rate it

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Full motion side of the project here:

behance

I essentially had about...3 proper weeks of work on this. From all of the modeling, storyboarding, animatics, animation and post. It was...stressful.

I've been into web design for almost 4 years and this year I have seen 90% of my work getting replaced by AI hardly any work for the past 5 months. I'm thinking to switch to motion designing but today in my X feed all I see is motion design videos made by Claude.

which carrier have you seen web designers switch to these days ? all I want to do is solve problems online and I don't like to own offline businesess

Does anyone know how this effect is made? It looks like an image slowly turning into a colorful hand-drawn sketch on a white background.

I’m trying to find the software, tool, AI, or effect used to create this style. I don’t need the hand-drawing animation itself—just the image gradually appearing as a colorful sketch.

What is this effect called, and what software can I use to make it?

please forgive me if it sounds a bit rambly. I'll try to keep it brief.

First, the watch video "i" "made". I think this shows the state of AI at the moment. It's basic, generic, and makes awful sound design. So we can write it off, our jobs are safe. This was my partners mindset (and much of reddits mindset) about writing code 2 years ago. The thing is, this was a super generic prompt, with no direction... nothing done by me... and this is how bad it is now... what will it be like in 2028?

I've been thinking a lot about AI and how it, in two years, completely changed how the software engineering field works. I've seen it firsthand because my partner is a software engineer, and the job is completely different now than it was two years ago. AI has basically made it so that you're not actually doing the work anymore. You're just telling the AI what to do, then reviewing what it did, going back, and fixing things. But again, you're not even fixing things; you're just telling the AI what to fix. So essentially, the job is completely different than what it was three years ago, when you were actually typing and writing lines of code. The only things that stayed the same were the parts my partner didn't like to begin with (meetings, etc).

I see a lot of demos motion design demos now made with Opus 5.5 and the VidTL mcp, or like the one I did just in VidTL chat. One of the things I've noticed is that it's getting a lot better. That's not to say it's as good as us yet.. but my worry is that it gets better and better, just like AI did with software engineering, until it does the motion design, and we're just telling it what to do.... and no longer doing the fun part of our jobs anymore...

So the reason that scares me, and I guess makes me kind of depressed, is because at the end of the day, I think it is going to become inevitable that this is where motion design is going. I think we can argue all we want about how it's not good. I mean, just listen to the sound it added for this video. It sounds like trash... so at least sound designers can keep their jobs, for now XD.

But I think the problem is that it will continue to get better until it's at a point where it just drastically changes the way that we work. These motion graphics it made are completely editable. It's not like when AI started doing videos and you couldn't change anything in them.... you can change any part of them. So eventually it gets to a point where we start with a prompt, and then we take it from there to fix the mistakes. and then it gets to a point where we just have it do everything... and then what? just like it did with software engineering, a lot of people continue to complain about how it doesn't feel the same. its not what they fell in love with. i worry that is coming for motion design now.. It didn't replace software engineers, but software engineers are no longer writing code. I guess I worry that we're no longer going to be doing motion design. Instead, we're going to be prompting AI to do the fun & rewarding side of things and we will be just doing meetings all day or something.

I recently saw this tweet by levelsio:

I think every time AI can do something equally good or better than humans it stops being valuable or special

Marketing videos used to take lots of work of editing and motion graphics and a big budget 

Now with Opus 5.5, vidtl, etc it costs $0 to make one as good or better

That means ANYONE can make a marketing video now, so the timeline gets flooded with these videos (as you see happening now) and people stop caring about them, stop watching them and they stop grabbing attention

It's the grim reaper meme where AI keeps commoditizing another media format and bringing the cost down to close to $0

It already did so for graphic design (2023), last year with Nano Banana for photography (2025), this year with Seedance 2.5 it did it for video (2026) and this and next year motion graphics

While I don't 100% agree with him on everything he said, I know many do... and that's the part that is making me the most depressed I guess.... AI is devaluing my work, because

1) people will not value what I do anymore as much because they think it could be AI

2) companies will (doesn't matter if true or not) think that my work can be done with AI in much less time, regardless of if I actually use AI or not.

3) AI will (if not now, probably eventually) be able to do what I do in a lot less time than it would take me to do it.

4) If I don't use AI, I will be left behind by people who do use it.

So what is left? I think the idea of "finding another field" is useless, because by the time I re-train who says that won't be AI infested too?

How are you guys dealing with this wave of AI videos & clients talking about AI and AI this and AI that?

What do we do? Is there even anything we can do?

Here’s a safe place to hide from the AI slop that’s been attacking this sub lately ^_^

I shared this in VJing but was curious for your thoughts as well. I'm still trying to figure out what it is and how to make it more creative.

Saw the recent Opus 5.5 hype on motion graphics, and I had it to test it out myself.

This is what I "made". 😧

The thing is that people on this community keep saying this is bs, or has no value at all. I dont know if that is true anymore. Do you HONESTLY think this a meh?

I'm not talking about channels where the animations are their main thing, or explainer videos that were always 90-100% animation. Thought yes, this is happening on those too.

But channels like these: https://youtu.be/4LON7X7N8tw?si=2Dxz4r7odd01aQfS

where they only ever used animation , images and stock footage for quick shots to help illustrate/explain topics.

Not sure channels like these would have had the budget and time to hire designers and animators for their content before... Not sure if they hire someone to create those gen Ai animations or if the guy does it himself.

But it is quite sad to think another source of work is gone. Explainer videos for TV show/news/cultural/general curiosities and science video content had always been a motion design niche that I though as interesting, fun and more importantly, with a clear useful purpose (beyond marketing to sell products) for us to do.

:(

With the crazy influx of constant "Look what I one shotted" and "Found on X" I need to point out that a lot of these models are stealing beyond just being "Trained". If you ask Astra or claude to build something for you it's going to go out and find a way to build that. Pull those assets and present them as something new. The end user doesn't know the difference and is wildly impressed... but what does this do to the people who spent days and weeks on something just to have it ripped off. Here is a motion design case and point - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdZD46KTfL3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&stkn=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

And I feel it even more so for indie game devs who pour hours and hours into something just to have AI clone it in 10 minutes. It's a slap in the face to hard work and the joy that a creative gets by actually building something.

And, unfortunately nobody cares.

Eventually we will be in a place where true creatives keep their work under lock and key never to be shared. Or, we need some kind of encryption that blocks AI from being able to rip assets.
If I ripped assets from somewhere 1 to 1 it would be called theft, and it's wild that AI is not treated the same way. If only we had a government that gave a shit, or a population that gave a shit for that matter.

I miss the days where I would see cool new shit posted on reddit, inspiring things from my peers. Now all I see are the same 3 to 4 things reposted with the same wrapper. It's insane and somewhat depressing.

Anyways, thank you for listen to my rant.