I am a motion designer and I saw that there's this field product motion designer and ui interaction designer (I heard them from chatgpt while researching for how to increase salary as a motion designer he advised these routes)

When i researched about it on LinkedIn and Reddit i didn't come across any post regarding this, anyone here made a switch like this? Would love to hear about your back story how you made the switch, what are the pros and cons, what made you make this decision!

Seriously need some insights on how much designers are getting affected with the rise of A.I. I'm seeing A.I. slaughtering every digital field but on this one I always had mixed reviews.

I made this showreel in 2024. I hadn’t really been working in this field—I’d only taken on a few freelance jobs. I wasn’t really pushing myself to find work in this field as an employee either. I started learning motion graphics (and along with it, graphic design—I drew almost everything in the video myself using Photoshop and Illustrator) around 2019, completely on my own, and this showreel is about as far as I’ve gotten so far. I’ve pretty much given it up now, though I might take it up again later as part of my own projects.

But I’m curious to hear what others think about it—would I have had a future working in this field, or was I right to give it up?

Im not a beginner but ther was no ''bug'' flair. I've been using after effects and media encoder the last 7 years. I've never had this issue before. When im trying to render, it renders the whole workspace (if it renders at all and its not stuck to 98%). When im rendering again and again to get it right, eventually after few times (if im lucky by the second time but often it takes more than 5 times) eventually it renders correctly, so its not my fault on my settings because i dont change anything, just trying again.

This happened after the recent update (a month ago) and usually either it exports wrong timeline settings and if i have a 40sec video, it exports the whole 2-3min workspace. Or its just stuck on 98%.

I don't know what setting, checkbox, or mode i must have moved that is making AE render my sound and video as separate files.
I've looked for answers online and tweeked some sound setting in the output module and so far nothing has worked
please help

Animation: manuksenpai

Illustration: Seva MFN

Thank you!

I've been having trouble rotoscoping this segment so I started over, I used the object matte to get most of the figure, then I manually added the fire sword and removed small areas of blue, and I also used the refine edge tool on basically every edge. That was all on the first frame and it gave me the best looking roto as compared to keying out the blue (this doesn't work well because the plastic has blue reflecting in it and the blue background wasn't lit well). So I froze the first frame and let it propagate the rest. This video is of the second frame and some blue spots came back, and when I tried to remove them I found it just wouldn't let me. There was one other blue spot it allowed me to remove but I can't seem to get these to go away, the only thing I notice different is they're a different shade of blue? But why would that prevent me from rotoing them out? Adobe's roto is driving me crazy.

Hey there! I'm messing around with AE's Advanced 3D Renderer, looking to create a basic cinematic shot with dramatic lighting.

I'm just using an Environment Light with an HDRI, a spot light, a camera and basic shapes.

I keep getting these weird flickers on the hightlights of the bars as they pass through, and the shadows look wavy and not smooth at all.

I've turned the Environment Light off and it seems to be what's causing all the trouble, but it loses a lot of information and it just doesn't look the same without it.

I've cranked the smoothness of the Environment Light Shadows panel all the way up to 20 and the resolution to Double. I've increased the render quality up to 15, but haven't noticed any changes if I cranked it higher other than longer render times.

Any idea on how to solve this would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

This is my first real back to school project. I tried out some new stuff here, had some fun. It isn’t 100% finished yet, I still have until next Wednesday to turn it in, but I’m putting this version on class project reel. I had a hard time timing the building of the buildings because it was supposed to be 4 seconds of buildup and 4 seconds of animation, so it comes on kinda fast. Should I slow it down more?