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Getting Started with 2D and 3D Character Design and Animation

Character animation is a staple of motion design work. While you may not be making a full-length film or television show, you still have to consider design, rigging, and animation.

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Make an Instant Jungle in Unreal

In this video, Jonathan Winbush will show you some of the awesome new additions to Quixel Megascans including preanimated trees and show how to quickly create a forest using the Foliage Brush in Unreal Engine 5.

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Maxon Drops New Cinema 4D 2024 Update!

It’s that time of year where Maxon jumps all the way ahead to the year 2024 for it’s latest Cinema 4D update. Headlined by the updated rigid body simulation system and Redshift finally being anointed as the default renderer, C4D 2024 includes a bunch of quality of life features including dramatic increases to the interactive performance of Cinema 4D.

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Sculpting Creatures for “God of War: Ragnarök” and More

Luke Starkie on how he got into the gaming industry and his work on some of the best-selling video games ever made.

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TUTORIAL The secret to Isometric Mograph in After Effects

Isometric imagery is everywhere - video games, animation, motion design and more. If you’ve ever tried to create your own, you know it can be surprisingly challenging. In this video, Mahmoud Fawzy shows you how to easily design and animate isometric text and logos, using some of the new 3D features in After effects. You’ll be up and running with Isometric designs in no time flat! (see what we did there?)

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3D Camera Tracking In AE And C4D With Graham Hutchins

Get ready for a family-share sized portion of awesomeness in this C4D + After Effects tutorial by Graham Hutchins! You’ll learn how to 3D camera track in C4D, how to create a dynamic particle system that rains tacos (or whatever 3D object you want) onto the ground, and how to believably composite your CG elements with live action. Don’t forget to tip your waiter!

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How to Design for Animation with Ordinary Folk

In this interview, Joey chats with Ordinary Folk’s Jorge and Avi about the design of this project. They’ll also go pretty deep into the weeds about how they manage client projects, how their design process works, and how to get a job at Ordinary Folk.

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The 5-Step Blueprint Pro Motion Designers Use on Every Project

Sometimes motion graphics may look relatively easy, but there are so many steps along the way to complete any project. Let’s dive into the five-stage process from client brief to final deliverable.

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Design at High Speed: How Justin Harder Gets $hit Done fast for Marvel, Apple, SNL and Nike

In this episode of The School of Motion Podcast, Joey interviews director/motion Designer Justin C. Harder, who has worked on title design for Deadpool, SNL, Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World, and Amazing Spider-Man 2, with incredible clients that include Disney, Nike, MTV, Apple and much MUCH more.

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3 Tools To Make Your Projects Go 10x Faster

With the tools mentioned in this video, you can speed up your client work and design workflow by extreme measures.

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The Secret to Making Real 3D Text in After Effects

Adobe has added a new and more flexible way to integrate 3D text into your After Effects projects!

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Learn How to Merge 2D Cel-Style Animation with Your Cinema 4D Renders

Merging 2D and 3D animation is one of the most popular styles in motion design these days. With this pro-level workflow, learn how to merge your Adobe Animate animations with your Cinema 4D renders in After Effects.

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Illustrating and Animating Characters With After Effects and Procreate

Character design is one of the most rewarding and fun processes in the motion design world. It becomes even more fun and rewarding when you learn to animate them. Here’s how.

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Making A Character In Blender For The First Time

Blender isn’t as intimidating as it may seem. In fact, we’ll show you how to make your first character all in one video, even if you’ve never opened blender before.

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With PenPal 2 You Can Make Making Paths Suck Less

Custom paths in After Effects is a bit of a drag (literally, you have to do lots of dragging). Luckily, someone made a tool that makes it so much easier.

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Everything You Need To Know To Make Web/UI Animations With LottieFiles

Motion Design and Animation have become a huge part of web and UI design. LottieFiles is a big part of that. Here’s how to get started.

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Quick And Easy Looping Animation With Blender's Geometry Nodes

As intimidating as they may be, learning how to use Geometry Nodes will unlock a whole new world in Blender. Here’s a quick beginner level set-up that can get you started.

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How To Create A Custom 360° Skybox In Seconds With Skybox AI

With this AI tool you can dream up entire worlds new horizons with just a few moments and an imaginative prompt.

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The Making of ‘Evenveil’

Rainfall Films’ Sam Balcomb explains the process behind their award-winning fantasy short.

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Celebrating 30 Years Of After Effects With Over 30 AE Tutorials

After Effects is now 30 years old, but it still has plenty of gas left in the tank. If you want to learn, there is no better time than now.

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3 Key Ways Pro Freelancers Find Clients on LinkedIn

Here are three ways you can find clients on LinkedIn using the front door, the back door, and the secret side door.

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Unreal Engine Used in Places You Don't Expect

Unreal Engine 5 is amazing for far more than just creating video games. From Hollywood to Twitch, look at the incredible versatility of this real-time render engine.

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What are School of Motion Self-Guided Courses?

Introducing a new way to learn at School of Motion. Get instant access to

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10 NFT Artists You’ve Never Heard Of

Digital artists are gaining international renown in the NFT space, but there are so many new faces to learn. How can you decide which artists you want to support? We asked Emonee LaRussa to share her top ten artists on the NFT scene.

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The Blender To Unreal Workflow — A Combo To Die For

Blender and Unreal Engine are two free-to-use tools powerful on their own, but when they work together they're truly magical.

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How To Get Any 3D Scene Into Unreal Engine 5

Here are the steps to bring any 3D scene from your app of choice into Unreal Engine to real-time rendering.

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This Can't Be Unreal!? | The C4D To Unreal Workflow

Get your scene out of Cinema 4D and into Unreal Engine without losing all the hard work you’ve already done.

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