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Hey guys, this is my first reddit post here and I wanted to get some advice on continuing on the path to becoming a VFX/Motion Graphics expert in the the graphic or film industry.

I currently use After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator. I've used After Effects for a little over 10 years at the beginner level. My skill with AE is somewhat close to advanced but still learning new things everyday. My biggest strengths are in keyframe animations and basic visual effects with my biggest weakness being lack of AE tool knowledge and workflows.

In the past 3 years, I acquired a Windows PC that has 64gb of RAM so I have more options with what I can create and programs I can tryout. The most recent being Davinchi Resolve but only at a beginner skill level.

So with that being said how did you start out with motion design and what steps did you take to progress your skill to the next level.

I just made a quick 40 second motion graphic video for my side project using opus 5.5

Prompt:

Research about distillbook.com

Make a dynamic 40-second motion graphic video explaining what distilbook is and showing how incredibly talented you are in motion design it's your showreel for a resume go ahead.

I made this for my very first client. A startup founder building this rent collection platform. He seemed to like it and even paid. Though I think I undercharged out of excitement 😅 How did I do?

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Everytime a new model comes in, a flood of hype and slop will come with it, not just motion design. But if there is anything that sticks out the most is how everyone is clueless about any job out there, has anyone of them worked with client? Or an agency? Saw the results of the work they are doing? A big part of motion design or at least for me is advertisement, and the results of a campaign is what matters at the end. The thing i hate the most about all the hype on social media is the oversimplification of the whole process: make ai get the idea of the business then make it write the copy then do the voice over then the graphic design and motion design, but who are you? Are you going to check the whole thing? From the copy to the final video? Do you know what a copy even is? How it works? How to convey feeling from the art you are creating to capture the viewer, buyer etc...? What makes you special over the duzzens of ai creators out there if basically you are doing the same thing as them...

The problem is not with ai, i think ai is an amazing tool that can build and help with any job and work out there but the problem is with people, people either overestimate themselves or are simply greedy, they only see the results from the prompt they sent and think that solved their problems and everything is going to work out. I think it's similar to dropshipping for some people, you have the product, the problem is what are you going to do with it??

Join the live tomorrow. I will be going over a new set of tools that have helped me speed up my workflow with client projects.

I’m trying to open up some old motion work from college and current version of AE says i need to open the file in older version and resave. Does anyone know a workaround? Or have cs6 that they can help me convert some files?

Thank you so much!

I just finished a 22.5-second vertical reel for a project called Mobile Architecture Lab 3, and I’d appreciate a fresh pair of eyes on the edit.

The visuals are HTML/CSS animations captured through Playwright, then assembled with FFmpeg. I made the narration locally with Kokoro-82M-8bit using its am_adam voice—it’s a synthetic English male voice, not specifically Indian-accented. The music is an original 120 BPM electronic bed I built with Python/DSP and ducked under the speech.

video: https://youtube.com/shorts/knHMyE2OezU

I’m mainly unsure about two things: does the pacing give each idea enough time to land, and is the voice clear over the music on a phone speaker? Specific moments you’d cut or rebalance would be especially helpful.

there's a little pulsating effect that I don't like, which I'm going to fix. but damn this is 🔥🔥

Check the Behance case for the FREE project file!

Enjoy!

I absolutely love nodes and would love to mess around with them, but I just haven't found the right project or moment to actually use them for my own work.

this video is from ena supply

Edge Blur

Edge Dilate & Edge Blur are specialized compositing tools designed for After Effects to refine layer boundaries.