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How to Animate Impossible Shapes in After Effects

Learn a few advanced After Effects techniques that can help you approach challenging "impossible" shape animations.

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3 Pro Tips for After Effects Beginners

If you're an After Effects beginner, this video will show you 3 powerful tips that will upgrade your work instantly.

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Pose to Pose Character Animation in After Effects

Learn the magic of pose-to-pose character animation inside of After Effects.

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Endgame, Black Panther, and Future Consulting with Perception's John LePore

Marvel Movies and Future Consulting - Perception's John LePore is on the PODCAST!

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Intro to Modeling in Cinema 4D

Learn some box modeling basics to unlock the power of modeling in Cinema 4D

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Easy Animated Trails with Expressions

Harness the power of After Effects expressions to easily create trails that follow an object.

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Using Mocha for Tracking and Clean Up in After Effects

Improve your Mocha tracking and clean up by using this clever After Effects workflow.

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VFX for Motion Breakdowns with alumni Nic Dean

We sat down with VFX for Motion alumni Nic Dean to talk about his breakdown reel, favorite compositing tips, and lessons learned from the co

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The Overlord of After Effects Tools: A chat with Adam Plouff

Adam Plouff is the creator of the über popular Overlord, Rubberhose, and AEUX tools for After Effects.

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Build a Joysticks 'n Sliders Rig in Cinema 4D

Enhance your character animation workflow by building joystick and slider controllers natively in Cinema 4D.

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To Buck and Beyond: A Joe Donaldson PODCAST

Joe Donaldson talks work, life and mid-20's career success on today's PODCAST.

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A First Look at Cavalry

A First Look at Cavalry, a new 2D animation app.

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How to Network Like a Pro

Networking can be scary, but this jam-packed guide will help you shmooze like a pro!

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The History of VFX: A Chat with Red Giant CCO, Stu Maschwitz

Legendary Hollywood VFX artist and Red Giant CCO Stu Maschwitz hops on the PODCAST to chat about his epic career in the VFX industry.

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How to Use Spring Objects and Dynamic Connectors in Cinema 4D

Learn how to use dynamic tags, spring objects and controllers to create a bobblehead in this Cinema 4D tutorial!

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PODCAST: From MK12 to the Spider-Verse, a Chat With James Ramirez

In this PODCAST PODCAST, James Ramirez of MK12 chats about his career evolution from a small Texas town to Spiderman titles in Hollywood.

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Ryan Summers Joins School of Motion as 2D Creative Director

A Letter from Ryan Summers on Joining SOM as New 2D Creative Director

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How to Export with a Transparent Background in After Effects

Quick Tip Tutorial: Rendering Transparency - Exporting Video Footage with a Transparent Background in After Effects

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Our 10 Favorite Motion Design Projects of 2019

Ten 2019 Motion Design Projects That Pushed the Limits of Animation, Design and Storytelling

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The Year In Review: 2019

Motion Graphics Greats Joey Korenman, EJ Hassenfratz and Ryan Summers on the Highlights of 2019 and What to Expect in 2020

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The 2019 MoGraph and SOM Wrap Up

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: A Letter from Joey Korenman, featuring the best tutorials, PODCAST episodes and articles of the year

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The Alumni Holiday Card 2019

Nearly 90 Former School of Motion Students Collaborate on the Annual Animated Alumni Holiday Card Video

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Inside Explainer Camp, a Course on the Art of Visual Essays

You Won't Believe What Explainer Camp Students Create for the Course!

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Six Essential Expressions for Creative Coding in After Effects

Unlock the Power of Expressions in Adobe After Effects

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3D Company Maxon Merges with VFX and MoGraph Software/Tools Creator Red Giant to Serve Post-Production and Content Creation Industries

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Using Cinema 4D Art for Augmented Reality with Adobe Aero

Learn How to Leverage Adobe Aero to Create Immersive Augmented Reality Experiences with Your 3D Animation Designs from Cinema 4D

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How to use Camera Tracker in After Effects

After Effects Tutorial: Tracking Video Footage and Then Placing and Aligning Text

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